SMRoot wrote:I showed my wife that video, and while she isn't exactly a gun person and might not have known all of the errors contained in that lady's statement, she knew enough to know that you couldn't buy the parts at the grocery store. And she also knew that a scope didn't make a rifle an assault weapon. She suggests that we contact FOX News and take them to task for such misinformation being broadcast on their station.
Fox News is the only national news I will watch, and, for the most part they usually try to get things right. I do wish they would actually reach out to someone who is actually knowledgeable about guns, allow them to demonstrate the various types, explain the nomenclature, clips versus magazine, semi auto versus automatic, and explain that the term "assault" rifle is a media conjured term, and then provide their reporters with reference material, that they can use whenever the subject comes up. I know that not everyone is educated when it comes to guns, but I don't understand why they allow so much misinformation to be introduced, especially when they use the word "expert". Gun owners have no voice in the national media that will actually teach the general public the facts about guns.
