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Thomas wrote:

wgoforth wrote:a CHL instructor and former cop I know, Robert Green, called Kenneth Cooper today... and he said he was actually a very nice fellow and was furious the paper distorted his words. He said he never used the term "cop killer bullets" that the editor added that. And that what he said was most thugs use FMJ's because they are cheap.

Texas is a one-party state, so let's say you were giving an interview and you secretly were recording it. Then let's say the newspaper grossly misquoted you. Is there any legal remedy?

Sec. 73.001. ELEMENTS OF LIBEL. A libel is a defamation expressed in written or other graphic form that tends to blacken the memory of the dead or that tends to injure a living person's reputation and thereby expose the person to public hatred, contempt or ridicule, or financial injury or to impeach any person's honesty, integrity, virtue, or reputation or to publish the natural defects of anyone and thereby expose the person to public hatred, ridicule, or financial injury.

If I was an upstanding person who dealt with guns professionally, I think that would expose me to ridicule in the gun community as well as subject me to financial injury because gun people wouldn't take me seriously as a professional and take their business elsewhere. Would I have to prove financial injury?