top things the media gets wrong

[SaMx]

I wonder how Carolyn McCarthy would define it.

that hammer thing that goes up


hey, it's kind of right.

 

[Superlite27]

I wonder how Carolyn McCarthy would define it.

You mean one of those, uh, shoulder thingies?

 

[XD-40 Shooter]

The Glock holds 17 bullets in the clip.

Correction : The Glock holds 17 cartridges in the magazine.

 

[Elm Creek Smith]

Things the nooz© get wrong:

Service revolver = any handgun the police carry, even semiautomatics.

"Make My Day law" = Castle doctrine

Transfer bar = an establishment that sells alcohol where you can buy guns from the locals

Street sweeper = any repeating shotgun

Sawed off shotgun = any shotgun with a barrel shorter than a Perazzi trap gun, not that they'd know what that was either

Blood in the streets, shootouts over parking places, gun battles after minor traffic accidents, gunfights on aisle 13 in the supermarket = the reasonable result of "shall-issue" CCW laws or any law making it easier for people to carry guns

Vigilante justice; taking the law into his own hands; acting as judge, jury, and executioner; trigger happy; bloodthirsty = any justified use of deadly force by a law-abiding citizen

ECS

 

[Ala Dan]

Pro-Filing Political Candidates- in order too promote someone that is still in
the race who IS NOT gun savoy~!

 

[mike101]

Every rifle is an "assault rifle", and hollow points are "cop killer bullets".

 

[The Weasel Squeezer]

"Speaking as someone who has spent most of his last 30 years working in a newsroom I have to disagree with the speculation the motivation is political. The basis is embedded in a political view, but that is because most reporters come from affluent families, spend four years being indoctrinated by liberal college professors and then go straight to a job in a building full of people with similar backgrounds."


loop has nailed it! I too have spent the last 15 years in a (tv) newsroom, in Detroit, and we have a lot of opportunities to report on gun crimes, and these
reporto-kids are clueless. When they start to write something stupid about guns I simply tell them they will look like a fool if they go on tv and say 'that'.
Since their ego is mostly what they are about, they will take my advice concerning firearms. And military.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Actually, just viewing a picture cannot tell us that the 'obviously" did not make sure of their target, backstop, and beyond. It's impossible to know from just one photo. Maybe the person took the firing pin out of the weapon before the photo. Maybe the camera is on a tripod and there is not a person behind it in danger. Maybe they really did check behind the wall and beyond and determined that there are no people in the line of fire. And maybe, just maybe, once you know(by visually inspecting) that the gun in your hand is unloaded, it's safe to say it's unloaded. Looking at a photo cannot tell someone on the interweb that the person did or did not do any of these things.

Okay, not for all pictures, but still it is obvious that many of the rules still get violated by us gun folks who like to talk about how wrong the media is on matters.

So you are saying that it is okay to violate some of the 4 gun rules when it suits you? You can point the gun at things you don't intend to destroy like the camera, inside walls the house, etc? You aren't firing, but it is okay for your finger to be on the trigger? Wow, maybe the four rules are really rules at all, just suggested behaviors...

Sorry, it just seems rather hypocritical of us to put down the media for not getting things right in our chosen field of special interest when we often can't get it right either.

I am off to go put more bullets in the clip of my Ruger 10/22 assault rifle.

 

[ZeSpectre]

Top things the media gets wrong/worries about...

1) Good people don't do bad things (they never seem to understand this concept)

2) Criminals don't care about the law.

3) Sensationalizing a story to make a profit (in spite of the damage that "upgraded" story might do to others) may not put them in #2 but certainly removes them from #1. Yet they still view themselves as some sort of "Heroes" for "uncovering the truth (and that's just TOTALLY wrong).

4) A lie is still a lie no matter how fancy the language or typeface, unverified information reported as fact is a lie, or at the least completely irresponsible.

 

[Hokkmike]

Everything that looks scary or is black is an "assault rifle".