Guns and Money are Evil

I have a pet peeve that just drives me nuts almost nightly. Every night on the 10 O'clock news I, invariably, see shots of a team of police going into a home where they are exercising a search warrant to seize some drug dealer or house burglar or other kind of criminal.

No, I dont object to that, but I do object to the presses depiction of the event. Almost without exception, the reporter standing in the street will say, "They found a huge store of guns and $35,000 in cash." What are they reporting on? There is no law, at least in Texas, against a store of guns in the house, and as far as I know there is no law in the United States against having $35,000 in cash in your house. There are laws against certain types of guns, but invariably the ones pictured are shotguns, rifles and hand guns of various types. None of which are illegal in ANY quantity, at least in Texas. And in fact, if I chose to have $35,000 in cash in my house, which I most definitely would not, I WOULD have a large number of guns there to defend it. So why is the reporter reporting on something that is NOT a crime? I don't hear him/her giving an inventory of the refrigerator, or the bedroom closest, why then, do they report on the guns and cash which are as legal as the milk and cookies in the refrigerator that they didn't mention?

I believe it is because they are against the Second Amendment.

Another one along those lines that really makes me mad is the way they reported on the guy that walked into a hospital and shot his mother and himself. Even the FOX news people were guilty of this one. The reporters on FOX news made a big deal of the fact that he had a "semi-automatic" weapon. It was a pistol. Almost all pistols are semi automatic. Most revolvers are semi automatic. Only antiques are single shot and require re-cocking before the next shot can be fired. Semi automatic means that each time you pull the trigger a round is fired and the chamber is reloaded for the next pull of the trigger. They are NOT illegal in most states. Now an "automatic" weapon is illegal. Federal law makes them legal ONLY if you have a permit for the gun and it requires a background check to get the permit. A criminal would not pass the background check. That is a weapon that fires rounds as long as the trigger is depressed or until the magazine is empty. This was NOT an "automatic" weapon. FOX news was trying to find fault with a system "that allowed a man to walk right into a hospital with a "semi-automatic" weapon." as though it was some sort of assault rifle and he carried it in the open. It was just a pistol.

The news media are anti gun and anti wealth. That is the antithesis of our Constitution. The news media are anti-Constitution.

Jim Isbell
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