Posted: 1/11/2013 4:44:18 PM EDT
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I'm not going to lie, I chubbed up a bit when I read the last line of this story:
20mm Rifle Any dude who's going to bring a 7ft long rifle to a BBQ clearly puts all of us to shame. But it really got me thinking...with all the talk of writing and calling our so-called representatives to correct their frightening level of ignorance on firearms and 2A issues, do we also have some responsibility to contact the media and attempt to educate them as well? After all, they are the ones that will ultimately tell the story of any pending legislation to the general and vastly uneducated public. And to that vastly uneducated public, the media's word is the only truth there is. I had absolutely no idea that a 20mm rifle even existed, but a 10 second Google search told me all I needed to know (and now I want one). The author of this article could have taken the same 10 seconds I did to fact check his piece before publishing it and came to the same common-sense conclusion I reached; the information he's reporting is flat out wrong. Nobody's bringing one of these suckers to their neighborhood cook-out. The amount of misinformation regarding firearms I have read and heard in the media lately is disturbing...and the lack of regard for accurate, factual reporting is disgusting. Is it even worth trying to correct the abject stupidity? Can a coordinated and concerted effort to call out every single factual error (or outright lie) make a difference, or is the media just a lost cause? |