Why do newspapers lie?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution just put out an uncredited editorial against the NRA boycott of ConocoPhillips. Full of scare quotes and numbers. The only problem is that truth they leave out. The National Rifle Association has called for a boycott of ConocoPhillips because the energy company has dared to insist on its right to keep its workers safe. Like many other employers, ConocoPhillips bars its employees from bringing firearms onto the work site, even if the weapon is kept locked in the employee’s car in the workplace parking lot. It’s a wise move, given that 487 people were shot to death at work in 2003, the latest year for which numbers are available. Those gunfire fatalities accounted for more than three-quarters of all the homicides on work sites that year Now I found this link at KeepandBearArms.com. The links are published each day early, and yet by 7:30AM as I write this the internet has already shown the truth, and it isn’t in this article. Whoa there- “487 people were s
