top things the media gets wrong

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I notice just about every time anyone here links an article or video from the media demonizing guns and gun owners, they always present glaring inaccuracies. For instance I saw one on here today where the Orlando Sentinal said someone used a "38 caliber Keltec automatic" (in the same article the identified another gun as semi-automatic, so they can't get away with just saying automatic for the Keltec.). Why can't the media even come close to getting their facts straight about guns? Here are things I notice the most.

1. Every hand gun used in a crime is a Glock.
2. mm, and caliber are interchangeable
3. Only certain bullets can kill cops (Hence "cop killer bullets"). Especially Teflon coated bullets.

What else have you guys noticed?
 
Vastly overstating what is considered an "arsenal". To the media, anything over 1 six-shooter with 6 rounds is an arsenal.

An interesting point I read in a article on here a few days ago is that the media always uses the terms "gunman" or "shooter", emphasising the tool and not the person. If someone gets murdered with a knife they don't call them the "knifeman." They just say murdered. With guns though, they have to specially point out the villainy of the gun used over the actual person.
 
everything synthetic is an AR, everyone who shoots from higher than ground level is a sniper, anything over .22 is ""large caliber", everything is high-powered, and anything with a box mag is a "high cap clip".

oh yeah, and everyone who has a gun is a maniac.
 
Half the time it's to sensationalize the gun in question.

"High capacity automatic AK-47 assault weapon" sounds more ominous than "Standard capacity semiautomatic rifle".

More often than not they do that on purpose.
 
"High capacity automatic AK-47 assault weapon" sounds more ominous than "Standard capacity semiautomatic rifle".

also usually "applies" to every gun they find, no matter what it is
 
Hunting rifle: high-powered sniper rifle
Any other rifle: high-powered assault weapon
Magazine: clip
2+ guns: Arsenal
2+ boxes of ammo: Ammo cache
Your near-century old design 1911: Military hardware
My scrappy Taurus 9mm: Cop killer gun
Hollowpoints: cop killer bullets
 
Semi-auto assault weapon. I just had this discussion with a college student. I said sem-auto means it is NOT an assault weapon. The definition of assault weapon is bla bla. The student said "No you are wrong. Congress changed the definition of assault weapon. Congress makes the laws and so they can define what an assault weapon is or is not." How do you argue with that kind of mind set?



Len S
 
-Responsible reporting of news with verifiable data.
Media does not seem to have this in Mission Statements nor Corp Creed.

-Being more concerned with ratings instead of quality and responsible reporting.

-Being more concerned with advertising dollars, instead of the quality , honesty, and integrity of advertisers products, goods and services, which in turn pays for medium to gather, investigate and report news.

-Media forgot/forgets they too are part of WE The People and history shows Tyranny often gets rid of whom assisted Tyranny in gaining power, and those Mediums are no longer needed, are tossed aside.

-Indoctrination, Propaganda, and Brainwashing of the masses, has its consequences.
Media seems to have forgotten this too...
 
If they can't check the facts on stuff like that, makes you wonder what else they don't "check" before they feed it out. The media is turning into a joke. It's too controlled now. I used to wanted to do something journalistic, but even as a kid I figured out that something just wasn't right. These days, I think I would be embarrassed to say I was a journalist. Even the good ones (if there are any) are not allowed to report on the real life issues and truths that are going on. It makes me more sad than anything...
 
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I'm so confused about how color, materials, and appearance make a rifle more or less dangerous. It evidently has nothing to do with caliber, cartridge, or actual ballistics.

I also like how every cop tv show has a magical national gun registry. Every Lorcin, Glock, and Beretta used on CSI is easily tracked to the owner via the registration.

If they can't check the facts on stuff like that, makes you wonder what else they don't "check" before they feed it out.
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I know they don't research anything involving aviation. every time a "small plane" crashes, the pilots are made out to be reckless farmers with no experience. The engine always "stalls" (for those who don't know, when an aircraft is said to have "Stalled" it refers to the airflow over the wings decreasing to the point that they are unable to produce enough lift to keep the airplane flying. aircraft engines "fail," and thats rare.) Small airplanes are all dangerous, simply because they're small. They are also a huge threat to national security and if a pilot decides not to file a flight plan (not required, I rarely do) they must be a terrorist. Airports that don't have control towers (very very common) are considered podunk backwoods places that are inherently unsafe.
Sorry for the off topic rant, but I know a lot more about flying than shooting, and most of the points seem to parallel the gun-type fallacies.
 
pistol grips make it really really easy to shoot from the hip.

ever tried that? take your 1911/GLOCK/whatever, and try to shoot it from the hip. tough ergonomics on that one! same story on a rifle, it's just about impossible. standard stocks are much easier to shoot "from the hip." Now, pistol grips work well for shooting from mid-torso...

Disclaimer: I've never actually shot anything from the hip, but just pick up your favorite piece and hold it at your hip, you'll see what I mean.
 
colin, it's because different shapes and colors give people different ideas and cause people to become victims of their own mind-control guns!
 
I am in no way apologising for shoddy reporting. But, say YOU were the reporter... how on earth could you divorce yourself from your own personal biases and write an article that was completely void of personal predjudice? Then factor in some stupid### with a liberal axe to grind. It's a wonder that every news article dosen't begin and end with "The sky is falling the sky is falling!!!" For example... I live in Northern Wisconsin. It's Winter. It often snows in Winter. But every time we're forecast to get an inch or three of the white stuff, for 2 days in advance, the TV near-constantly has a "crawler" running above or below the program I'm watching, saying "WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY.....". Of course you dipsticks, it's Winter. In Wisconsin.
Sorry about the rant.
 
I'm so confused about how color, materials, and appearance make a rifle more or less dangerous. It evidently has nothing to do with caliber, cartridge, or actual ballistics.
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You've got to understand what motivates liberals. They don't think. They feel. Color and appearance influence emotions. They make things looks "scary", which evokes an emotional response. Caliber and ballistics are dispassionate facts, and thus have no part in a liberal's mind. All gun legislation is a emotional reaction to an emotional event. Gun control has no basis in fact or logic.
 
You've got to understand what motivates liberals. They don't think. They feel. Color and appearance influence emotions. They make things looks "scary", which evokes an emotional response. Caliber and ballistics are dispassionate facts, and thus have no part in a liberal's mind. All gun legislation is a emotional reaction to an emotional event. Gun control has no basis in fact or logic.
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I agree with everything but the last word. there is plenty of logic in disarming the populace so they can be more easily controlled.
 
The student said "No you are wrong. Congress changed the definition of assault weapon. Congress makes the laws and so they can define what an assault weapon is or is not." How do you argue with that kind of mind set?
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To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, if Congress declares a horse's tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Of course, it only has four. Calling a horse's tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. Similarly, calling a semi-automatic rifle an "assault weapon" doesn't make it an "assault weapon" no matter what the horse's @$$es in Congress say.
 
"Semi-auto assault weapon. I just had this discussion with a college student. I said sem-auto means it is NOT an assault weapon. The definition of assault weapon is bla bla. The student said 'No you are wrong. Congress changed the definition of assault weapon. Congress makes the laws and so they can define what an assault weapon is or is not.' "​

Actually, Len S, his comments are accurate--almost. The gun-grabbers created the term "assault weapon," and Congress created the definition as a legal entity.

Historically, there has not been the term assault weapon in the standard firearms lexicon. Unfortunately, even the pro-gun crowd now treats it as a valid definition--and, IMO, by using it, we have plunged right into the antigunner's playbook.

AFAIK, the first time the term "assault weapon" made it into the national news media was the day after the Luby's Cafeteria massacre. I chased it down to a AP reporter who had written the article NPR / MPR used--and he referenced a Josh Sugarman or Brady Bunch press release as his source. With its popularization the sick Willy antigun crowd in congress grabbed on to it--and the rest is history, as we like to say.

Jim H.
 
I'll stretch the definition of Media for a moment just to rant.

Last night on a re-run of CSI: Miami:


Blond girl they claim is from Louisana: "Know that that is? A Ruger GP 100"

Cuban Guy: "A Ruger? That's a rare weapon."

Blond girl they claim is from Louisana: "Yeah, very rare... this model has a hammer tranfer bar to the firing pin."

Cuban Guy: "What do you think the odds are that its registered?"

Blond girl they claim is from Louisana: "Slim-to-none." (with a smirk)
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Oh come on now... a RUGER is a RARE gun????? A Transfer bar is a RARE feature????


I swear this crap makes my head want to fly off and start hitting people in the room!


So, I guess the press gets it honestly.


-- John
 
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