Why is the media always wrong when reporting about firearms??

#52
#52
No one wants your guns, but if I decide to get another degree people having them in the classroom is the last thing I would want to happen.
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#55
#55
IPorange said:
Both sides are ultimately motivated fear, just different kinds. Don't be in denial about it. You're terrified of the government.
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#56
#56
Yes - I am afraid...because I don't agree with allowing guns in classrooms...a room where hats aren't acceptable.

The fact that gs agrees should say enough - he has cornered the market on fear.
 
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#57
#57
hats? I wore one almost every day in college and so did pretty much every guy
 
#61
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KiffinKiller said:
Yes - I am afraid...because I don't agree with allowing guns in classrooms...a room where hats aren't acceptable.

The fact that gs agrees should say enough - he has cornered the market on fear.
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Major logic fail on both points.
 
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utvolpj said:
lots of gun ignorance also but it was expected
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I think ignorance is the primary factor but, more to the OP, the media plays no small role in keeping people ignorant. Most hoplophobes just don't know any better.

As an aside I've never instructed anyone on gun safety and taken them shooting where they didn't want to shoot more afterwards.
 
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nbakerld said:
Major logic fail on both points.
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Let me explain my position to you then. I'm not pro-government or w/e you want to label me - nor am I some freedom idealist. I am not advocating taking guns away from people - I just think there are appropriate places/times to carry them.

I just don't think the classroom is one of those places. Sorry if that's illogical.
 
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KiffinKiller said:
Let me explain my position to you then. I'm not pro-government or w/e you want to label me - nor am I some freedom idealist. I am not advocating taking guns away from people - I just think there are appropriate places/times to carry them.

I just don't think the classroom is one of those places. Sorry if that's illogical.
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Your position is not illogical. The reasoning you exhibited in your last post was.
 
#65
#65
It was partly sarcasm - Im not afraid of guns - just don't think you should be free to bring them wherever you want.
 
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#68
KiffinKiller said:
explaining it to you would be a waste of time.
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Or maybe you just can't.

Tales Told By Fools: Why The Media Can't Get Anything Right About Guns | Field & Stream

Imagine a newspaper story on automobiles in which the writer confused camshafts and driveshafts. Or a piece on investing in which the words “stock” and “bond” were used interchangeably. Or one that referred to Marines as soldiers (which will get you a punch in the mouth from any self-respecting Jarhead). Not likely, you think. No reporter is that ignorant or that careless. Wrong. They are when they turn their attention to guns. Cartridge and bullet are used interchangeably, clip and magazine mean the same thing; submachine gun and machine gun are synonyms. And it gets worse.

When the M-16 was first issued during the Vietnam War, Americans were informed that it was deadly because its bullets tumbled through the air, creating terrible wounds when they hit. Anyone who has ever thrown a football knows what a crock this is. Apparently, news reporters do not throw footballs.

In a recent article in The New York Times, a reporter quoted a police officer as stating that a Smith & Wesson revolver went off when it was dropped. The handgun was made in the 1970s, so there is a problem: No Smith wheelgun of post-World-War-II manufacture can go off unless the trigger is pulled. Even if the revolver was cocked, it’s highly unlikely that it could fire. It sounds like the police officer told a Great Big Fib, but the reporter did not know enough about the subject (or, probably, anything about the subject) to call him on it.

In the 1990s, a newspaper Sunday supplement ran an article on gun control that used the term “ballistic footprint.” This was a new one to me so I called the magazine and asked the editor in chief what it meant. He said he had no idea but that he would check with his staff. He did, and no one else had a clue, either.

We are treated to almost-daily accounts of assault weapons that are supposedly being purchased at American gun shops and sent south of the border through an elaborate system of straw men, couriers, intermediaries, etc. But as the American Rifleman points out in its excellent article on the subject in its July issue, drug cartels are huge businesses with unlimited budgets. Why would they go to the trouble of buying two or three or a dozen guns in the U.S. when they could call their friendly arms merchant and get a pallet load of guns, still in the factory cosmoline, delivered right to their doors?
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theutvolunteers said:
No one wants your guns, but if I decide to get another degree people having them in the classroom is the last thing I would want to happen.
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Are you alright with people having a firearm in the movie you are watching?

What about while you are at the grocery store?

Paying for gas?

Eating dinner?

Why is a classroom more sacred?
 
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fl0at said:
Are you alright with people having a firearm in the movie you are watching?

What about while you are at the grocery store?

Paying for gas?

Eating dinner?

Why is a classroom more sacred?
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Might wake someone up if gun is fired?

Remember, it's not that they can't explain, it's because they won't.
 
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gsvol said:
Might wake someone up if gun is fired?

Remember, it's not that they can't explain, it's because they won't.
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They? If I have miraculous sprouted into more than one person, let me know.

I'm not willing to get into a stupid argument about gun ownership with you.
 
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KiffinKiller said:
They? If I have miraculous sprouted into more than one person, let me know.

I'm not willing to get into a stupid argument about gun ownership with you.
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You weren't the only one asked the same question.

Any argument with you would be a stupid argument.

Are you even a gun owner?
 
#74
#74
Oh shii. He called me stupid - well let me tell you about the time a student said I was the smartest man he'd ever met.
 
#75
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KiffinKiller said:
Oh shii. He called me stupid - well let me tell you about the time a student said I was the smartest man he'd ever met.
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First, I didn't call you stupid, I said you make stupid arguments, you can't ever make an argument on any topic without first resorting to persoanl attacks. :wavey:

Second, you can't seem to get anything right ever, a. it wasn't a student who made the the statement and he didn't say anything about intelligence, he just said he learned something about banking, you otoh will probably never learn anything about anything from me since you already know it all about everything. :tease2:
 
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