Ryan Busse

Busse: Modern Gun Industry Marketing Has Created Today’s Mass Killers

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Americans are rightly anguished by gun violence and the question of what’s motivating the young men who have committed a succession of horrific mass murders. We seem to be fumbling around for answers: Is...
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Progress: AP Stylebook Now Advises Against Using ‘Assault Rifle’ and ‘Assault Weapon’ in News...

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From the Second Amendment Foundation . . . After years of incorporating the terms “assault rifle” and “assault weapons” into news reports involving firearms, especially when used in crimes, journalists are now advised by the...
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The Media Have Very Different Standards for Covering White and Black Gun Rights Advocates

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  https://youtu.be/2lKdFDhaapY There are a lot of taboos on commercial television, which for instance doesn’t like to show scenes of poverty (unless it’s being chased by police), rarely interviews non-voters, almost never does military contracting fraud...
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Vespa: Even Californians Are Going to Have to Get Used to More Black People...

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The Left still doesn’t get that the Second Amendment is for everyone. This proves it. Whatever the reason, you have a right to bear arms. Whatever the reason. And yes, while the liberal...

Why Does Joy Behar Belittle Black Americans Who Own Guns to Protect Their Families?

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Joy Behar of ABC’s 'The View' appears to possess an unfortunate ignorance of African-Americans and their desire for the God-given right to safety. Here attitude seems to border on bigotry. Sadly, that's a pattern...
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The New Rules: Only Anti-Gun Groups Are Allowed To Use Fear to Market Their...

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A recent op-ed at the New York Times explores the marketing of firearms. The Gray Lady is horrified that the firearms industry works to "target buyers with rhetoric of fear, machismo and defiance." As...
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Gun Control Advocates’ Lies and Duplicity Are Right There for Everyone to See

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By Mark Oliva There’s an interesting phenomenon occurring with those demanding gun control lately. They’ve abandoned pretenses of “common sense.” Now, it’s not gun control. It’s gun rights elimination. President Joe Biden leads the gun control...
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NPR Conflates Mass Shootings With School Shootings to Wildly Overstate the Problem

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Some say the folks at NPR quit doing real news back in the Jimmy Carter era. Others say it happened some time during the Ronald Reagan era. Either way, NPR's coverage of the Uvalde...
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The Media Dial Up the Hoplophobic Hysteria as the Supreme Court’s Bruen Decision Nears

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Reader Migraine Man writes . . . As the Supreme Court term winds down and each passing week brings us closer to a ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the...

We Need to Put a Big ‘I Did That’ Biden Sticker On Every Gun...

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Americans have been buying a lot of guns. The figure is in the tens of millions. It might be time to get one of the gas pump stickers of President Joe Biden saying, “I...
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Junk Science: Johns Hopkins Uses Bogus Data to Claim Constitutional Carry Results in More...

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By Lee Williams If you didn’t know any better, the headline on a press release published Wednesday by Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health could appear damning: “Study Finds Link Between Dropping Permit Requirement...