CNN hit piece on NRA convention

[gunsmith]

 The article makes a big deal about how Indians ( the kind from India ) do not own guns.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/world/indian-immigrant-nra-convention/index.html?sr=twCNN042917indian-immigrant-nra-convention0935PMVODtopLink&linkId=37033346

the pictures will make you flinch, its a big thing ( i think ) in the twitter verse, which i have not been able to figure out how to use.
http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/04/30/bam-dana-loesch-and-other-gun-owners-blast-cnn-for-triggered-indian-woman-nra-piece/

Two big name republicans are Indian, Bobby Jindal & Nikki Haley-were they at the NRA convention?

[MillCreek]

I did not interpret this as a hit piece.  I saw it as someone from another culture in which firearms are not common, and who wished to learn more about them.  We have a ton of people from India up here in the Seattle area working in high-tech.  I have had similar conversations with my Indian neighbors, some of whom I have subsequently taken to the range.

[gunsmith]

i see your point, I guess I am so used to everything on CNN as wanting to put me in prison

[Perd Hapley]

I did not interpret this as a hit piece.  I saw it as someone from another culture in which firearms are not common, and who wished to learn more about them.  We have a ton of people from India up here in the Seattle area working in high-tech.  I have had similar conversations with my Indian neighbors, some of whom I have subsequently taken to the range.

Taken?

[230RN]

I did not interpret this as a hit piece.  I saw it as someone from another culture in which firearms are not common, and who wished to learn more about them.  We have a ton of people from India up here in the Seattle area working in high-tech.  I have had similar conversations with my Indian neighbors, some of whom I have subsequently taken to the range.

I didn't see it as a hit piece, either.  I saw it as some of the best pro-gun PR ever.  I realize she ended with "having a lot to consider," as sort of a concession to CNN's general statist/anti-gun philosophy in order to get it published through them.

I strongly suspect that some of the major media outlets are reconsidering their statist/anti-gun positions bit by bit because of the overwhelming rural over urban voting victory in the last election.

I believe that perhaps some of the lock-stepping "useful idiots" in the media world are waking up.

Maybe because of their marketing departments, maybe because of a nibbling away at internal philosophy, maybe heavenly intervention, but that's the way I see it.

And, most importantly, the semantic stigma of being a right wing redneck ignoramus gun owner is being reduced.  Oh, except for the so-called "antifas" baby-children of the anthills of Berkeley and New York City, et alia.  Every ant follows every other ant without thinking about it.

Terry, 230RN

[DustinD]

I am at the show, one of my female friends was happy to report that there are even lines to use the women's bathrooms. She said that usually isn't a good thing. :D

The crowd is really diverse here.

[JN01]

To me it read like someone confronting their own pre-conceived notions and considering other view points.  Not what I expected from CNN.

[Hawkmoon]

I grew up not knowing a single gun owner, and even today India has one of the strictest gun laws on the planet. Few Indians buy and keep firearms at home, and gun violence is nowhere near the problem it is in the United States. An American is 12 times more likely than an Indian to be killed by a firearm, according to a recent study.

"Gun" violence can't be a problem when there are no guns. That doesn't mean violence isn't a problem. Compare rape statistics for India and the United States.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/25/what-s-really-behind-india-s-rape-crisis.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/05/30/indias-culture-of-gang-rape-and-the-failure-to-stop-it/?utm_term=.c9eaf2e9b52e


But ... guns are evil, so women should not be allowed effective means of self-defense.

Overall, though, I didn't see the article as a hit piece. It was more like stream of consciousness musings of a liberal who finally dared peak through the curtain of her preconceptions and who got her first glimpse of how free people think.

[TommyGunn]

@CNN "Why are Americans so hell bent on being able to defend themselves and their families? Let's ask this Indian woman."

   Um .... 'cuz we like to live .... ...... 

[Devonai]

I, too, have considered the alternatives, and concluded I prefer being alive.

[Hawkmoon]

I, too, have considered the alternatives, and concluded I prefer being alive.

But how can you be sure if you haven't even explored the alternative? I'll bet you've never even talked to a dead person.

I did meet a guy once who claimed to have died and come back. He said it was much better "on the other side." He was much bigger than I am (he was a Marine), so I decided not to ask if it was so much better, why did he come back.

[Devonai]

To defeat ISIS, obviously.