Gun Control thread (merged many)

[mookiemookie]

Looking at the way this story is being reported...

The Senate, which is controlled by the president's own party, handed him a stinging first defeat for his second term by voting down a bipartisan compromise to expand background checks for gun buyers.

A stinging first defeat...handed Obama a stinging first defeat.

How about the people that this proposed law would have affected? How about the law itself? But no, the news media couches it in terms of Obama's wins and losses. A "blow to" the gun control movement. A "stinging defeat" for the president.

According to the media, it's not a stinging defeat to anyone but Obama. Idiots. Horse race journalism at its finest.