Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Journalists continue spreading VPC's 'machine gun' confusion

Anyone with basic knowledge of the issue would suspect the gun in question was really a semi-auto, as opposed to a submachine gun and that the staff writer simply doesn't know the difference. And that's just what the Violence Policy Center wants them to think... [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at an old trick that still works on the self-styled "opinion-making class." The bottom line is, they're either ignorant, in which case they're engaging in journalistic malpractice, or they're evil, willfully propagating lies to advance a statist agenda.

Also tune in to today's Trigger Sports Live! and check out how few "free state" political opportunists are willing to take a stand on the Second Amendment.

I trust regular readers will share the link?

2 comments:

Defender said...

Now we have a whole new generation of journalism school graduates who have not been exposed to, much less educated in, the American legacy of freedom. Even veteran reporters who know a hell of a lot about drugs and their many nicknames because it's cool are stymied by the most basic firearm terminology. Their eyes glaze over when you try to explain. Rewriting VPC press releases is so much easier for these overworked souls (not being sarcastic here; staff cuts to reduce payroll expenditures have some covering THREE beats instead of one) or soulLESS socialist-leaning ink-slingers. Besides, only right-wing domestic-terrorist gun nuts will notice or care. (actual sarcasm)

W W Woodward said...

I was wondering how the police department personnel who writes the felony reports managed to come up with "submachine gun". until I stumbled upon an item a little further down the page.

"Joann was walking down the drive when officers arrived bleeding."

It turns out that Joann was the one doing the bleeding, not the officers.

Maybe the archive editor attended the same government school as did the "journalist".

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