By: Anthony Morelli
The liberal media isn’t satisfied with simply taking everyone’s guns away.
They want to punish anyone who dares to advocate for the Second Amendment.
And you’ll be stunned when you find out what they tried to do to one innocent man.
Anti-gun activists cannot accept the fact that gun rights are plainly in the Constitution, and that a huge number of Americans support the right to bear arms.
Instead, they assume that everything has to be a major conspiracy, and that there are shadowy figures lurking behind the scenes pulling the strings.
Liberal media outlets frequently use that as license to attack certain individuals who have done nothing wrong, on the belief that they are a part of this “conspiracy.”
That is exactly what happened with The New York Times recently, and it led to the harmful slander of a man who didn’t deserve it.
William English is a professor at Georgetown University, and he was shocked to hear his name come up in a New York Times hit piece.
This happened for no reason other than the fact that he has supported gun rights in his legal opinions.
According to the National Review, “On Tuesday, the New York Times published a remarkably long piece about a man named William English, who, despite being ‘a little-known political economist at Georgetown University,’ has supposedly become ‘The Gun Lobby’s Hidden Hand in the 2nd Amendment Battle.’ In their now-familiarly conspiratorial tone, the work’s authors, Mike McIntire and Jodi Kantor, reported that ‘one name keeps turning up in the legal briefs and judges’ rulings’ within the gun-rights realm. That name is ‘William English, Ph.D.,’ and it has now ‘been cited in a landmark Supreme Court case,’ been referenced ‘in scores of lawsuits around the country,’ and ‘figured prominently in a broad gun rights campaign that has transformed the law.’”
Of course, the truth is far duller than the vast conspiracy that the Times presents to their readers.
English’s research had little impact on the decisions that were made. The National Review article reports: “But almost none of the rulings that they name revolved in any way, shape, or form around that research.”
Ultimately the article concludes, “Reading these, one might well think that such uncertainty makes a strong case against figures such as Dr. English being used as dispositive sources in contemporary Second Amendment litigation. Well, here’s the good news: They’re not.”
So what we have here is a professor who has expressed some pro-gun opinions, those opinions got cited as virtually irrelevant throw-away lines in a Supreme Court decision, and now The New York Times is targeting him personally with a hit piece for daring to dissent from their anti-gun agenda.
The way that Dr. English was treated in this article is despicable. He is not some shadowy member of a vast conspiracy.
In truth, he is just a professor at a university who has political opinions. That is supposed to be the right of every American, but The New York Times apparently wishes otherwise.