They just make it what they want it to be.

A few years back, a newspaper ran a series of articles on how easy it was to rob gun stores. A week or so after that article ran, three guns store with in 50 mile radius were robbed using the techniques suggested in the newspaper articles. I guess the newspaper would call that "a public service article".
 
The people coming out of college with communication/journalism degrees are not required to get any rigorous course work in English or history, political science or biology, etc. They are willfully ignorant. Training is in voice, makeup, camera angles etc. They are focused on making big-time TV somewhere and being famous. Just the way it is.

Many years ago I got a call from a woman who was assigned to write a story about secondary trading of private placement bonds. I tried very hard to carefully explain in understandable language and offered to review her article before print. When the article appeared she had got stuff upside down backwards. The magazine was for bond trader types so the article got a big hoot from readers. Deadlines and editors play a part here. Spell check does great violence to correct word usage.
 
Texas resident here. I remember a conversation with an uncle of mine who is a retired Maine State Trooper. He said that in Maine, gun theft carries the basic same felony charge as rape. He said he would investigate burglaries and everything would be missing except the guns. He saw freshly-burgled houses where the guns were literally propped up in corners or on coffee tables, completely visible, yet untouched.

I do think stealing a gun should be an upgraded felony charge equivalent to rape. Here in Texas, there are so many unsavory types. Thankfully, we don't live within an hour of Houston, because the crime there is off-putting so I avoid the place at all costs.
 
GUN CRIMES? No thanks. Stick it to the BURGLARS. No need for added gun law.
 
Doesn't matter what they call these Thugs/Low Lifes/Cretins.
They will eventually be caught.

Then we can call them convicted Felons.

Chuck
 
The people coming out of college with communication/journalism degrees are not required to get any rigorous course work in English or history, political science or biology, etc. They are willfully ignorant. Training is in voice, makeup, camera angles etc. They are focused on making big-time TV somewhere and being famous. Just the way it is.

Many years ago I got a call from a woman who was assigned to write a story about secondary trading of private placement bonds. I tried very hard to carefully explain in understandable language and offered to review her article before print. When the article appeared she had got stuff upside down backwards. The magazine was for bond trader types so the article got a big hoot from readers. Deadlines and editors play a part here. Spell check does great violence to correct word usage.

Gee, sounds like the ''editor'' in chief of our local rag, er ''newspaper.''
 
Texas resident here. I remember a conversation with an uncle of mine who is a retired Maine State Trooper. He said that in Maine, gun theft carries the basic same felony charge as rape. He said he would investigate burglaries and everything would be missing except the guns. He saw freshly-burgled houses where the guns were literally propped up in corners or on coffee tables, completely visible, yet untouched.

I do think stealing a gun should be an upgraded felony charge equivalent to rape. Here in Texas, there are so many unsavory types. Thankfully, we don't live within an hour of Houston, because the crime there is off-putting so I avoid the place at all costs.

Being it is a felony, its 10 years Fed time. At a DEC gun show here, two of Darwin's best students stole two guns off a dealers table. They made good their theft but were caught in less than a week and are now staying at a Fed resort and grey bar hotel. The marriage it appears, will be ended before either gets out.
 

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