XPost: alt.politics.democrats, alt.politics.usa.republicans, talk.politics.guns   
   XPost: alt.society.liberalism   
   From: tim.howard@suddenlink.net   
      
   On 1/11/2011 2:18 PM, RD Sandman wrote:   
   > Tim Howard  wrote in news:4d2bea7c$0$5559   
   > $bbae4d71@news.suddenlink.net:   
   >   
   >> On 1/10/2011 2:06 PM, RD Sandman wrote:   
   >>> Tim Howard   wrote in news:4d2a5540$0$5568   
   >>> $bbae4d71@news.suddenlink.net:   
   >>>   
   >>>> I assume everyone noticed that CNN was getting a lot of feed from a   
   >>>> local station named KGUN?  Predictably, CNN did not comment on the   
   >>>> irony.  But that example just shows how entrenched the gun culture is   
   >>> in   
   >>>> Arizona.   
   >>>   
   >>> No, it shows nothing really.  KGUN has been KGUN for a long time.   
   >>>   
   >>> The station was founded in 1955 by rancher D.W. Ingram, who gave the   
   >>> station his initials, KDWI-TV. It began broadcasting June 3, 1956.[1]   
   >>> Shortly afterward, Ingram sold it to H. U. Garrett, who changed the   
   >>> station's call sign to KGUN on March 14, 1957.   
   >>>   
   >> So?  The gun culture has been strong in AZ since before their   
   > statehood.   
   >>   
   > Yep, but KGUN has nothing to do with it.  It is an ABC affiliate.   
   >   
   >>>     This will probably not be the last such shooting in a strong   
   >>>> pro-gun state.   
   >>>   
   >>> Or any other state including yours.   
   >>>   
   >> Perhaps not.  The right-wing is fanning the flames with their violent   
   >> rhetoric in most every state.   
   >   
   > Both sides are doing that.   
   >   
   Are liberal Democrats running for office putting cross-hairs on pictures   
   and names of their opponents?  Are they using rhetoric like "2nd   
   Amendment remedies"?   
      
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