When Is A Non-Story A Story? When You’re An Anti-Gun New York Times Writer

By Robert Farago

It’s not often that a story runs out of gas by the third paragraph. The Year After Death, Business as Usual at Arizona Gun Range is one of those stories. After briefly introducing a Spanish family visiting The Last Stop gun range – where a nine-year-old girl shot and killed an instructor trying to show her the ways of a full-auto Uzi – nytimes.com scribe Julie Turkewitz’s “expose” takes a dirt nap. Like this . . .

In the year since a New Jersey girl visited Last Stop and accidentally killed Charles Vacca, a 39-year-old father of four, little has changed in the nation’s tourist-oriented machine gun ranges.

Correct! No one else has been killed or injured. No children, adults, instructors or SWAT-averse dogs have suffered because of their exposure to fully automatic weapons. So . . . what? As Walter Mondale famously demanded, where’s the beef?

It’s the same beef the New York Times has had since The Sullivan Act of 1911: civilians shouldn’t own guns. Never mind shoot them. So the fact that people are shooting guns – children! machine guns! again! still! – is a story for the Old Gray Lady. Whose publisher has …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns