Lies about lying about the second amendment
The Lone Star Times blog, with the headline Second Amendment lie makes news, notes:
A KTRK story informs us that a Houston man accidentally discharged his “assault rifle” while removing it from his vehicle, and the shot struck his wife in the hip, putting her in the hospital.
Unfortunately, the Harris County Sheriff’s Department doesn’t seem to be aware of gun laws, given this absurd statement from one of its deputies:
“With the ban being lifted on assault weapons, we are having more people carrying these weapons than we did when the ban was in place,” said Deputy Dennis Brown with the Harris County Sheriff’s Department.
While not surprising, it is none the less aggravating to hear a law enforcement officer make such a ludicrous statement, than have it amplified by news agencies as truth.The fact is that the so-called “assault weapons ban” did not ban such weapons. It did ban importation and manufacture of certain specific makes of weapons, and restricted magazine capacity to an arbitrary 10 rounds, but most semi-automatic rifles, including the kind involved in this accidental shooting, were perfectly legal to own and transport.
That’s actually not lying about the second amendment. That’s lying about the assault weapons ban. Regardless, people lie about guns (and the media parrots the lies) every day. And those of us that rebut those lies should do so truthfully.
