“journalism”
Orlando machine gun event stirs controversy
First ‘graph:
An event where the public will get an opportunity to shoot a semi-automatic gun is being criticized by some.
Well, which is it?
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August 28th, 2016 at 8:52 pm
I live in a little hamlet right outside of Orlando. Fox35 is one of those organizations that are trying to dig themselves out of the dark hole of irrelevancy using the broken shovel of stupidity… nuff said…
August 29th, 2016 at 12:57 am
Various prices for various “sizes” of gun rental, so both probably, just very crappily written like the rest of it…professional writing/editing is apparently a completely lost art.
Hard to mistake an 800 RPM belt-fed as anything but a “machine gun” though, sounds like fun. But “background check”? Can’t do NICS for that, so…?
Anyway, lost on the hand-wringers as usual is that far from being insensitive, such an event could be highly instructive, even lead some to learn to defend from real “evil criminal terrorists”, as the promoter rightly said.
Nothing new about the projection, mis-construction, and mis-representation of firearms by antis though.
August 29th, 2016 at 1:30 am
It’s just more of the usual conflation of semi autos and machineguns. If semis are machineguns, the ignorant will be more amenable to banning them. If I’ve ever witnessed a lame-stream journalist get it right, it’s been so long ago I can’t remember. I think they’re running right at 100% misreporting on that one.
How many people do you know outside the experienced shooting enthusiast circles who could give you anything but a blank, idiotic stare if you asked about the NFA of ’34 and GCA of ’68, or the Hughes Amendment, for example? How many “investigative journalists” are there in this country alone, and how prominent has the gun rights issue been, and how bloody difficult is it to “investigate” this sort of thing when all laws, rulings, case history and technical descriptions are now searchable on line by any child who can read? And how many times have we brought these things up on the gun blogs and forums, which anyone who has the slightest curiosity on this “controversial” topic, this oft discussed national issue, can read?
I rest my case; it’s all willful misdirection. The ignorant journalists (and voters) remain ignorant via strenuous avoidance of information, and those who know bury it.
If someone claims to care, then you’ll know they care when they can tell you about these things. If they claim to care, but couldn’t be bothered to take a few minutes in the comfort of their own home to look it up, then they’re full of shit. Virtually all journalists are, by that simple and reasonable definition (if you gave a fuck about the truth you’d have looked it up a long time ago) are full of shit.
August 29th, 2016 at 10:53 am
“but I don’t believe in these weapons of mass destruction” Commissioner Sheehan (in this case).
Anyone else remember longingly the days when words actually MEANT something? Sure, you could say it’s just hyperbole, and maybe once upon a time it was, but now that stupid line has been repeated over and over until the phrase “weapons of mass destruction” is no longer meaningful to these people. Take a look at real WMD attack like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or on the chemical killing fields of the Iraq/Iran conflict in the 80s. THOSE are examples of the use of weapons of mass destruction. Add up all the people killed by (so called) Assault Weapons in the US in an entire year and you won’t get a death toll anywhere close to single usage of a REAL WMD. That, of course is giving Sheehan the benefit of the doubt because this article isn’t about (so called) Assault Weapons, it’s really about machine guns. Add up all the people killed by machine guns in the US in a year, and Sheehan wouldn’t even have to take off her shoes to count that high.
August 29th, 2016 at 5:07 pm
What’s evident is that there is no end to how far people will go. Automatic weapons have been regulated almost to extinction. Ownership is extremely elite. Occasionally the common person can spend a lot of money to use one for a very short amount of time in a highly controlled environment. This should be the anti-gun wet dream, but is that good enough for them? No.
August 30th, 2016 at 12:41 pm
“Ownership is extremely elite”
Yes, and the Marxists want that to apply to all weapons.