What misinformation have you heard

[Machete]

I've been watching and listening to a lot of news programs lately after the VT shooting. I can't believe the flat out wrong information that gun control advocates are throwing out there. Most of them display absolutely no knowledge of firearms. If your going to speak out against something shouldn't you have at least a basic knowledge of it.

I've seen the .22 caliber called a 22mm (thats bigger than whats mounted on the front of most fighter jets.)

I've heard someone make a big deal about it being the same caliber that was used in the attempt against Reagen (Whats that have to do with anything)

I've hear the glock called fully auto

I've heard them complaining you can buy a 33 round magazine for a glock. (I don't believe the shooter used a 33 round magazine so how is this relevant?)

I've seen grainy black and white video and creepy music playing in the background while someone was shooting a glock on the news to make it look extra scary. (when I take my guns to the range creepy music starts playing and everything turns grainy black and white so I guess I shouldn't complain)

Notice how it's all about the glock, I haven't even seen one photo or heard of what kind of .22 he used, but that black scary looking 9mm glock (EVIL ) is everywhere. (Did you know the glock is the prefered handgun of Satan?... Just saying)

Anyway, there's tons of other stuff I noticed but can't think of right this moment. How about you?

 

[tmajors]

I've seen the .22 caliber called a .22mm

I caught that one and laughed out loud about it. My wife didn't get it until I explained.

Countless times reporters were asking things like "how did he reload? Why was he allowed to reload?"....

 

[Eagle103]

It's what we can expect from the media today which is made up if people with very little knowledge of guns. They figure if someone has a gun they must have the intention of killing someone. Why else would you own one. It makes you wonder about much of their other "reporting" about other subjects about which we may know little about but for some reason believe the reporting as gospel.

 

[Zundfolge]

Notice how it's all about the glock, I haven't even seen one photo or heard of what kind of .22 he used...

Its my understanding that while he had the Walther P22 on him, that he didn't use it, he just used the G19

 

[MD_Willington]

Did he line them up execution style... that's one I heard...

True or False

 

[armoredman]

I have heard that the prince of darkness does have a fondness for the tactical tupperware...

But this is AZ, many of our newcasters do have a clue about firearms - Micheal Goodrich, now retired weatherman, shot IDPA, for one. Heck we even have a station with the call letter KGUN9! So, no really bad misinfo about the firearms, that I have heard.

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

Their only motivation is ratings. Fear and shock will cause more people to tune in and stay glued to the TV. They have no interest in the truth or educating themselves. Never have.

 

[David N]

Confusing Typo

Machete-

.22mm - about a fifth of a millimeter - wouldn't be very big at all. You made the same mistake you're making fun of the media for making.

Please let's try to be very clear in our communications with each other and especially with the uninformed and misinformed.

THANKS!

Dave

 

[Machete]

".22mm - about a fifth of a millimeter - wouldn't be very big at all. You made the same mistake you're making fun of the media for making."

Good call, damn can't believe I did that. 22mm is what I meant of course. How ironic.

 

[Geronimo45]

Misinformation - the shooter used two 9mm pistols, on the day it happened. Turned out that he used one 9 and one .22.
Most folks are saying 'clips' instead of magazines, including a few of the cops they've had to talk.
22mm=.866 or so, would be about the size of a 12 gauge. When Walther makes a 12-gauge pistol, let me know.
Oh, and the incredible speed of shooting with a Glock. What is it... 15 rounds in two seconds? And the newsfolk saying that he could kill fifteen people in two seconds.

 

[tydephan]

Did he line them up execution style... that's one I heard...

There have been ABSOLUTELY NO REPORTS of this happening. There was some initial speculation, I think, due to the high number of fatalities involved. But no witness accounts have revealed information regarding any type of execution line.

 

[BobTheTomato]

Early on it was "automatic pistols"

 

[aubie515]

Media said it was a Glock, but they showed pictures of a Sig. My friend said another channel showed a Beretta 92F.

The intial two shootings the media said that two females were shot and killed, when it was one female and one male.

I'm sure glad I don't work as a reporter because I would think I would be fired for reporting the wrong information.

 

[Sharps Shooter]

"Its my understanding that while he had the Walther P22 on him, that he didn't use it, he just used the G19"

I'm not too sure about that Zundfolge. On TV the night before last I saw a news reporter interviewing one student who had his arm in a sling. The reporter claimed the student had been shot with the .22.
As a matter of fact, what the reporter said goes along perfectly with this "misinformation" thread. On national television that reporter claimed the student was lucky to have only been shot with the "twenty-two" rather than the "larger fourty-four." How's that for misinformation?:banghead:

 

[Geronimo45]

Note: Not misinformation, just data gather about use of the .22:
One of the injured students on Fox... he mentioned the guy coming in, shooting up the classroom, and reloading. This guy mentioned the shooter dropping a 'magazine' (that establishes a bit of credibility). Then said that the gun being used on him and his classmates in that particular spot was a .22.

 

[Lashlarue]

Foxnews put up a photo of a tec-nine with the 30 round magazine.This was early on, and as far as I know they only showed it once.You know California got the 50 caliber round banned by using photos of the 50mm artillery shell.One picture is worth a thousand lies!

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Misinformation can fall into several categories
and not always is it deliberate or malicious.
Incidents like this will generate mal-information
(bad info) due to confusion. It is when KYA
cover-up, conspiracy theory and political
posturing come into play that it becomes very
very important to get when, where and what
down pat (the why and how can be sorted out
only if we have the basic facts solid). This starts
by trying to build a strict timeline of events:

7:15am at West Ambler Johnston dorm Reema Samaha and Ryan Clark killed

?------ police arrive at dorm

7:45am body removed to ambulance; crime scene investigation

9:01am Cho's manifesto and video mailed from Blackburg P.O. addressed to NBC NYC

9:26am first Official e-mail subject line: shooting on campus

~9:45am shots fired in German class 2nd floor Norris Hall

9:45am 911 call from Norris Hall to VT police

?----- physics professor Liviu Librescu bars door to his classroom as
students leap out window to safety; prof. Librescu killed.
at least two other classrooms hit.

?----- police respond from dorm to Norris Hall, find door cabled shut

9:50am second Official e-mail warns staff and students to stay put

?----- killer Cho Seung-Hui commits suicide after police breach door

10:16am third Official e-mail announces classes closed

10:52am fourth official e-mail describes shootings at Norris Hall:
one shooter in custody, routine search in progress for possible
second shooter



The classrooms did not have locks, according
to AP, which is why professor Liviu Librescu
died blocking the door to his classroom with his
body while his students escaped out the window
(in another classroom, two desks were jammed against
the door and held by students against entry).

Have heard no evidence of students shot execution style:
that appears to be mostly speculation.

 

[Thylacine]

Heard an FBI or ATF spokesman on NPR saying "Automatic Clips". (I want some of those! I almost drove off the road on that one.)
Heard the 9mm and 22mm. Not .22mm.
Heard calls for the Assault Weapons to be banned, on ABC. (WTH? )
Also on ABC heard the 'crossfire'(?) debate between the Texas Rep. Lady from the Lubys' Attack, and some dweeb that made no sense. He lied about being able to get the gun through the Internet, misleading statements about acquiring a CCW. Etc, ad nauseam.

 

[the naked prophet]

Heard an FBI expert on CNN saying that he had to have more than 50 rounds, "an amazing amount of ammunition" and that he had to have an accomplice to amass such a large amount of ammunition.