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Originally posted by Sparhawk
Better than talk radio and Foxaganda (props to whoever came up with that one  ).
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Uhh.. better, how?
The local communist rag here, the Star Tribune (aka Red Star), did the very same thing to a local lawyer who was a major driving force of our firearm-carry law. Check out the link to see some blatant twisting of the story to color David Gross as a drunken fanatic.
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The following was on the front page of the metro section, with a "continued on page 8" right below it. Now, after reading these two paragraphs you would think that David Gross is a "shoot-first-ask-questions-later" wacko living in a shack in the forest with a stack of pipe-bombs.
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A major player and legal consultant on Minnesota's new gun-permit law is a former board member of the National Rifle Association who was fired from the Minneapolis city attorney's office for opposing gun buy-back programs and carrying a gun to work.
He also acknowledges shooting a deer in his back yard in St. Louis Park with a .357-caliber Magnum handgun for eating his raspberries, pointing a rifle at a neighbor many years ago who he claimed was harassing his wife, and attending his synagogue armed with a handgun in case of trouble.
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Oh, but wait! What is this that we see several pages, at the very end of the article?
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Court records show that while Gross worked in the city attorney's office, he served as a translator for an immigrant who ended up in prison and blamed Gross. The man told several people he planned "to get" Gross.
So Gross applied for, and received, a gun permit in 1991. It was renewed twice. But during that time, Gross voiced opposition to the city's gun buy-back program. He was fired, but he sued and won back his job. Then his superiors told him he couldn't come to work with a gun.
Gross decided it was a choice between his job and his life, and he picked the latter. "I just didn't feel safe," he said. "You wouldn't believe the anxiety."
After Gross lost his job, the St. Louis Park police chief denied his carry permit, arguing that he no longer needed it. Gross sued again and won. He now has a permit from Florida and says he carries a gun "whenever I feel it necessary."
It's sometimes necessary at home, he said.
A check of police calls to Gross' current residence shows several reports of damaged property and one report where Gross said he received more than 60 hang-up phone calls.
As for his admission that he shot a deer several years ago in his back yard, St. Louis Park Police Chief John Luse said that would violate city ordinances.
Gross, who said he reported it (although St. Louis Park police have no record), disagrees. "You are allowed to dispose of pests doing damage in a safe manner, which I did. He was eating my raspberries."
Pointing a gun at a neighbor could have led to an aggravated-assault charge, Gross admits, but the statute of limitations had run out. "I had the right to defend my [ex-] wife," he said. "She was especially vulnerable at the time [she had multiple sclerosis]. It worked -- they moved."
Gross said he has also carried a gun to his synagogue, Bet Shalom in Minnetonka, because of ample evidence that synagogues have been attacked around the world, often during the High Holidays. His rabbi, Norman Cohen, said last week that he disagrees with Gross' actions.
Gross said he sits at the back of the synagogue in case of trouble. "If they go by me, their backs are to me," he said. "Is it going to happen? I don't know. But at least I've thought it through."
He looked around his cluttered home.
"Freedom at last," he said. "That's what this bill is all about. Freedom at last."
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Everything that he had done was within the law, yet the Star Tribune attempted to paint him as a reckless cowboy -- and for those who didn't bother to read the rest (i.e. factual) part of the article, it worked.