CBS AR-15 photo essay

Wow, you would think they might be talking about the Ford Mustang, Chevy Camaro, or Dodge Charger.
"America's Sports Car"
"Millions sold"
And all that.
Every now and then these cars kill people.
Sometimes several people,
When the owner loses control...

Actually, a surprisingly balanced and factual presentation.

^^ Not without left-leaning spin, though.

I couldn't make it through all of the slides as the site kept locking up my browser, but on slide 9 it states that the AR-15 weapons used in Aurora, Orlando, Newtown, and San Bernadino, were all "bought legally".

This is stated with intent to imply that the shooters were all in lawful possession of their weapons, in order to make the reader feel that gun-control laws simply aren't tough enough.

The truth is that, in one of the mentioned cases, the rifle was stolen from a murder victim, a means of acquisition that is already unlawful.

The idea that, simply because the firearm was purchased by its' original owner legally, its use by the shooter is somehow a result of "lax gun control" is ludicrous. Using that line of thinking, virtually all firearms used in any crime, including inner-city gang violence, could be attributed to "guns bought legally", as they pretty much all once were before coming into the hands of their final users.

Wow, you would think they might be talking about the Ford Mustang, Chevy Camaro, or Dodge Charger.
"America's Sports Car"
"Millions sold"
And all that.
Every now and then these cars kill people.
Sometimes several people,
When the owner loses control...

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Mustang crashing meme's are all the rage right now, many many folks leaving car shows in these lose control and often plow into crowds and the like.

Overall it wasn't TOO heavily leaning of a photo gallery, but it definitely was not a purely factual presentation of the AR15. "but is capable of firing hundreds of rounds within minutes" **** so is damn near anything by using that sort of phrasing. I could do that with a Mossberg 500 if you gave me about 40 minutes or so.

The one photo (14/16) of the cop holding the neutered AR had me laughing though.

"A symbol of rampant violence?" The Glock has more exposure by a factor of 100 to 1. Ok, it's not fair or balanced.

#4: capable of hundreds of rounds in minutes - depicting 1) an AK, 2) a Trump supporter hat, 3) a bolt action with confederate flag decal and upraised middle finger.

By NO means is this anything but a hit piece. It's not even informative to any special degree, just more slanted narrative meant to cheer up the news consumer in large metros that they need more security. "All the AR's used in mass shootings were purchased legally."

There are other larger issues - they always forget to mention that the shooters are often on psychotropic drugs, but I'm not planning to discuss it with John Noveske any time soon. I hope.

And in news about those solicited by ISIS websites from my front page, "how do we counteract their propaganda and keep a free internet?"

There's the catch - we can't stand ANY intrusion on hate speech by radical Islamist websites but we CAN gut the 2A to prevent you protecting yourself from their converts.

We need to make banning those websites a bigger issue. If we can restrict the 2A we can restrict the 1A. That's fair and balanced.

The photo of the AK, pump, and bolt action rifle with a Trump hat had NOTHING to do with an AR. That was stupid. So too was the statement that the Pulse gun was bought "days" before the shooting, implying that a 3 day waiting period would have stopped it. It was bought more than a week in advance.

There was also no mention of sporting, hunting, or recreational use, just ownership.

Not balanced at all.

MedWheeler said:

^^ Not without left-leaning spin, though.

I couldn't make it through all of the slides as the site kept locking up my browser, but on slide 9 it states that the AR-15 weapons used in Aurora, Orlando, Newtown, and San Bernadino, were all "bought legally".

This is stated with intent to imply that the shooters were all in lawful possession of their weapons, in order to make the reader feel that gun-control laws simply aren't tough enough.

The truth is that, in one of the mentioned cases, the rifle was stolen from a murder victim, a means of acquisition that is already unlawful.

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The San Bernadino guns were not bought by the shooters either...their neighbor bought them.

"bought legally" is a complete Red Herring and obfuscation of facts. There are plenty of guns in the hands of prohibited people, which were bought legally and then stolen.


This little pictorial failed hard when titled "Why the AR-15 is America's gun" and the third picture was of a bolt action rifle, pump shotgun and AK

The usual sort of Leftist bias, promulgated by urban elitists, designed to make all us rubes who live in "flyover country" to look like the loser-nutters they think us to be, "clinging to our guns and bibles," - you know, Trump voters.

If you can make it to the end, a special prize awaits. Slide 16/16 runs right into a Hillary ad!!!

The San Bernadino guns were not bought by the shooters either...their neighbor bought them.

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Moreover, both rifles were altered in ways that made them illegal to posses in CA. http://www.wsj.com/articles/rifles-...o-shooting-illegal-under-state-law-1449201057

One was altered in violation of federal law (in an attempt to make it capable of full-auto).

BTW, the WSJ article linked to above talks about background checks but fails to mention that the two killers were not the rifle purchasers (although it does attribute the purchase of handguns to one of the buggers).

I'm still waiting for a Democrat, any Democrat, to clearly define who they intend to put on the "Terror Watch List" when they have issues with admitting "Radical Islam" exists...

Easy conclusion.
If you have a firearm, Hildebeast & Co. will place you on the terrorist watch list.
Then you can't have a firearm, because you've just become a "Prohibited Person".
Problem solved.
They think.

I thought it was a decent enough article.

And I liked the purddy pictures...

Definitely a fair and balanced slide show -- CBS certainly isn't a leftist propaganda machine.