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Related: About this forumGun-rights group pressures TV station after report
RALEIGH -- The debate over guns often sparks raw emotion and lays down a sharp dividing line, but for a Raleigh TV station, it has become personal and financial.
In response to a WRAL report on concealed-weapons permits that included a searchable database, a North Carolina gun-rights organization has launched a campaign against the reporter and his supervisors and applied pressure to the stations advertisers.
The incident demonstrates the prickliness of examining gun-related issues even before the shooting in Colorado stirred fresh debate. It also exposes tensions that can arise between advocates of the First Amendment and its protections of free speech and supporters of the Second Amendment with its right to bear arms.
Grass Roots North Carolina, described on its website as North Carolinas only no compromise gun rights organization, has not quieted its campaign against WRAL in the wake of the killings at the Aurora, Colo., movie theater.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/07/25/2218895/gun-rights-group-pressures-tv.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy
In response to a WRAL report on concealed-weapons permits that included a searchable database, a North Carolina gun-rights organization has launched a campaign against the reporter and his supervisors and applied pressure to the stations advertisers.
The incident demonstrates the prickliness of examining gun-related issues even before the shooting in Colorado stirred fresh debate. It also exposes tensions that can arise between advocates of the First Amendment and its protections of free speech and supporters of the Second Amendment with its right to bear arms.
Grass Roots North Carolina, described on its website as North Carolinas only no compromise gun rights organization, has not quieted its campaign against WRAL in the wake of the killings at the Aurora, Colo., movie theater.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/07/25/2218895/gun-rights-group-pressures-tv.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy
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Gun-rights group pressures TV station after report (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Aug 2012
OP
WRAL's next in-depth report will be a database of battered women who have restraining orders
slackmaster
Aug 2012
#2
I don't know about this. The info put out by the station is already available to the public.
Kaleva
Aug 2012
#3
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)1. When you fuck up that badly, the TV station gets what it deserves.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)2. WRAL's next in-depth report will be a database of battered women who have restraining orders
Kaleva
(36,360 posts)3. I don't know about this. The info put out by the station is already available to the public.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)5. Available - yes. Readily - not so much.
ileus
(15,396 posts)4. I suppose this station thinks gun owners are the same as sex offenders.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)7. I can see how someone might come to that conclusion, especially concerning rabid gun owners.
spin
(17,493 posts)8. Out of the 80 million gun owners just how many do you consider "rabid?" (n/t)
Remmah2
(3,291 posts)10. "rabid gun owners"???
We've all be vaccinated.
GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)6. The station should respect people's privacy. N/T
Remmah2
(3,291 posts)9. "The incident demonstrates the prickliness of examining gun-related issues "
Examination as only a proctologist could perform.
I wonder how people would feel about posting a public list of people with STD's?