Perhaps the most insane column from the Tuscaloosa News ever [View all]
The Tuscaloosa News has a beautiful, (relatively) new, glass building on the banks of the Black Warrior River. It's really a pretty building.
But since Tommy Stevenson and Ben Windham left recently, and a new right-wing publisher bought the paper, the quality of the journalism has nosedived.
The paper won Pulitzers during the civil rights struggle years ago. But it has been pretty bad in recent years. Little to no original reporting, etc. But now it is just pathetic.
They have a columnist that has a piece each Wednesday. He repeats stuff he heard on Fox News. So we know he's probably pretty stupid. But check out his latest masterpiece.
He's defending George Zimmerman, and people like him, and guns in general.
When citizens defend themselves with firearms, it doesnt make the national news that often, either. But it happens with relative frequency. The National Rifle Associations publications carry a monthly feature called The Armed Citizen. The feature is a compilation of snippets from the newspapers around the country detailing incidents in which citizens defended themselves with firearms.
People who dont own guns and fear guns dont hear about that. They hear about incidents where law-abiding citizens kill someone wrongfully, and they get a skewed perspective about the likelihood that it will happen.
He is defending "law-abiding citizens" who "kill someone wrongfully." Got that?
This guy should be fired, and have his self-satisfied smirk slapped off his face. What a moron.
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20120411/NEWS/120419978/1245/opinion01?p=2&tc=pg&tc=ar