‘Everytown’ Facebook poster providing lesson about assumptions

What gave the poster special credibility for this correspondent is because the level of ignorance it displays has been seen before over the years. Similar blunders had been pointed out in two related posts on The War on Guns blog. One demonstrated cluelessness by “Authorized Journalists” who ran a photo of an Iraqi woman holding two rounds of unfired ammunition she claimed hit her house. The other, from budding college journalists, featured a handgun “firing” complete cartridges as a front page headlined centerpiece. [More]

After much scrambling, we may be closer to what happened and how, but at this point, nothing would surprise me.