Why the media................................

[Grouchy Greg, SASS#71981]

............can't get anything right about guns.

 

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/gun-nuts/2011/08/tales-told-fools-why-media-cant-get-anything-right-about-guns?cmpid=enews081011

[SASS# 23321 Canelo Kid]

Because...

[Subdeacon Joe]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that a big portion of it is that we allow them to get away with it.

 

Imagine if every time a radio or TV station made those stupid pronouncements the got a few thousand calls and letter correcting them? And if news papers and magazines got the same thing? And if we were to deluge the letters to the editors with letters commenting on their lack of knowledge about the subject, and the bias that they inject into their articles?

[BLACKFOOT SASS #11947]

In order to write intelligently on a subject you have to know something about the subject. All too often we read articles or listen to reports by persons who know absolutely nothing about the subject. Those who know something about the subject see the flaws immediately, those who know nothing of the subject think that they are now "informed". After they have written or reported even the journalist think they are informed.

 

Drifter

[Captain Woodrow Cahill, SASS # 54363]

Having worked in TV news for the better part of 35 years, I can tell you this about reporters, producers, and news directors in general:

 

When it comes to firearms, politics, finance, automobiles, or damn near everything else these people are by and large all pretty stupid.

 

In all fairness, if you ask them about Oprah, American Idol, Hollywood celebretards, or other such matters of great importance they are very well informed.

[Grouchy Greg, SASS#71981]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that a big portion of it is that we allow them to get away with it.

 

Imagine if every time a radio or TV station made those stupid pronouncements the got a few thousand calls and letter correcting them? And if news papers and magazines got the same thing? And if we were to deluge the letters to the editors with letters commenting on their lack of knowledge about the subject, and the bias that they inject into their articles?

========================================================

I've submitted letters to the editor of our local daily newspaper several times over the years on this subject, and they've actually printed them.

[The Shoer 27979]

that's to funny. I use to have a '89 Ford F150 4x4 about 9 or 10 years a I was in a head on collision, the local paper printed I had a 2001 Dodge!

[Spooky Joe, SASS #24061]

About a year ago our local paper printed a story based on an AP report about a shooting which included the term 'assault rifle'. The story was supplemented by comments from our local police. I called the reporter and had a long conversation about assault rifles and look-alike semi-automatics. To his credit he has not used assault rifle in stories about shootings, whereas the Tucson paper reporting the same story continues to misuse the term. At least one reporter is being honest.

 

While on the subject of guns, our local police department recently ran an event where anyone who wished to could run the handgun qualification course using issue guns and ammunition supplied by the police. The event cost $50, all of which was donated to Special Olympics. The local paper covered the event with a front page story. The anti-gun nuts had a field day with it, screaming about how the police were training future murderers. Their main point seemed to be that merely firing a weapon turns an otherwise normal citizen into a homicidal maniac. Fortunately they're a small minority, but a very vocal one.

[Subdeacon Joe]

========================================================

I've submitted letters to the editor of our local daily newspaper several times over the years on this subject, and they've actually printed them.

 

I've had some printed too. And been given some pretty good air time on one of the local liberal talk shows (that was about a decade ago).

 

 

About a year ago our local paper printed a story based on an AP report about a shooting which included the term 'assault rifle'. The story was supplemented by comments from our local police. I called the reporter and had a long conversation about assault rifles and look-alike semi-automatics. To his credit he has not used assault rifle in stories about shootings, whereas the Tucson paper reporting the same story continues to misuse the term. At least one reporter is being honest.

 

While on the subject of guns, our local police department recently ran an event where anyone who wished to could run the handgun qualification course using issue guns and ammunition supplied by the police. The event cost $50, all of which was donated to Special Olympics. The local paper covered the event with a front page story. The anti-gun nuts had a field day with it, screaming about how the police were training future murderers. Their main point seemed to be that merely firing a weapon turns an otherwise normal citizen into a homicidal maniac. Fortunately they're a small minority, but a very vocal one.

 

I got one to come out to the range with me. Went over safety, how guns work, the usual Intro To Firearms stuff. I also had a picture of an after market stock and pointed out that under CA law, if I were to put that on a certain rifle I had, it would magically be transformed into an 'assault rifle.' She didn't understand that. "But...other than the stock it is exactly the same! What difference does it make?" "Why, none at all. Still the same mechanism firing the same cartridges, at the same rate of fire." "That doesn't make any sense." And she thought my Colt Dragoon with detachable stock was 'cute.'

[Mean Matt McCord, SASS #24683]

............can't get anything right about guns.

 

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/gun-nuts/2011/08/tales-told-fools-why-media-cant-get-anything-right-about-guns?cmpid=enews081011

It isn't because they can't. They simply refuse to. The distortions are intentional.

[Grouchy Greg, SASS#71981]

I've had some printed too. And been given some pretty good air time on one of the local liberal talk shows (that was about a decade ago).

 

 

 

 

I got one to come out to the range with me. Went over safety, how guns work, the usual Intro To Firearms stuff. I also had a picture of an after market stock and pointed out that under CA law, if I were to put that on a certain rifle I had, it would magically be transformed into an 'assault rifle.' She didn't understand that. "But...other than the stock it is exactly the same! What difference does it make?" "Why, none at all. Still the same mechanism firing the same cartridges, at the same rate of fire." "That doesn't make any sense." And she thought my Colt Dragoon with detachable stock was 'cute.'

======================================================

That's why people who don't know doodly-squat about firearms, including the media and politicians, should have no say in the regulation thereof unless they are willing to be exposed to some hands-on experience with them, by people who are well-versed on the issue and firearms terminology and function.

[BLACKFOOT SASS #11947]

...........any equipment painted yellow is a bulldozer and any liquid in a truck is hazardous

 

Drifter

[Sweet Trouble]

======================================================

That's why people who don't know doodly-squat about firearms, including the media and politicians, should have no say in the regulation thereof unless they are willing to be exposed to some hands-on experience with them, by people who are well-versed on the issue and firearms terminology and function.

 

Agree wholeheartedly with this. It makes me wince every time the local news reports on some guy (especially one is not being charged with any crime), that was found by police to have "thousands of rounds" of ammunition, and "several" guns in the house... as if it is guilt by association even if the issue with the police has nothing to do with firearms. Anyone who shoots regularly, especially in competition, knows that "thousands" of rounds won't last you very long. When I was shooting competition ATA trap, it wasn't unusual for me to shoot 500 rounds in ONE afternoon of practice and burn through another 1200 at a weekend match. So, those thousands of rounds might really only be enough to get me through a month. I buy primers by the case of 5000 and wads by the ten-thousands because I don't like running down to the local sporting goods store every time I start up the hydraulic press!

 

And that's just shotgunning. Factor in cowboy shooting, big game hunting, upland hunting, waterfowl hunting, turkey hunting, plinking, buffalo & creedmore matches, military rifle matches, IDPA, blah blah blah, and all the calibers needed for each one of those different sports and we've gone WAY beyond thousands of rounds. The news people don't understand this and don't want to understand it, because the inflammatory nature of this kind of twisted reporting is what pulls in audiences.

 

Just my two cents of trouble.