CNN Anchor's False Statements
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And perhaps, like with the dogs, a dangerous backdoor for disarming you, or restricting what you own, in a different way.
The insurance companies have a list of dangerous dogs (http://www.forbes.com/sites/cateyhill/2012/05/30/11-riskiest-dog-breeds-for-homeowners-and-renters/). If you have one on the list, theres a very good chance you wont get homeowners/renters insurance. Some require you to jump through a number of hoops, other, like nationwide, wont insure you at all. We went round and round with quite a few when buying the house were in now(we have Rottweilers). No home owners, no mortgage.
It appears, rural State Farm agents, have a little more latitude in the decision making process. We got the policy, with virtually no hoops, but we did have to disconnect a wood burner, because it didnt have an Underwriters label.
Since insurance companies seem to one of the big players in secretly ruling the world, Im sure those who want guns banned, are already well aware of it. Just put guns, or certain types of guns, on the list of things you need special coverage for, if you can get it at all. Like the NFA tax, you in effect, limit/control possession, and maybe, even more effectively.
Machineguntony
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Very intelligent response. Stop beating your wife. Lol
I make a contrarian point and a couple of people get their panties in a bunch. The gun rights coalition is not, and should not, be a monolithic collective, but rather a diverse collection of all view points.
Not all gun rights people are conservatives. So stop making such assumptions. Ronald Raygun, the conservative idol, was anti-gun. We shouldn't care if CNN is liberal.
I make a contrarian point and a couple of people get their panties in a bunch. The gun rights coalition is not, and should not, be a monolithic collective, but rather a diverse collection of all view points.
Not all gun rights people are conservatives. So stop making such assumptions. Ronald Raygun, the conservative idol, was anti-gun. We shouldn't care if CNN is liberal.
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The ONLY part of this thread that amazes me is that there are pro-gun people who watch CNN. CNN, along with NBC, CBS, and ABC have been strongly anti-gun for as long as I can remember (and I'm old!). The only network that shows are real respect for the 2nd Amendment and the pro-gun perspective, is Fox (and even Fox has some anti-gun individuals on the air regularly, like Shepard Smith.)
You have to watch them all, if you want to know what it is youre supposed to think.
ALL of them are spin doctors, and ALL of them have their agendas.
I dont think any of them are credible, but it is interesting to know what it is Im "supposed" to believe and think, and some of the girls are cute too. Even the ones who arent bubbleheaded or bleach blondes.
ALL of them are spin doctors, and ALL of them have their agendas.
I dont think any of them are credible, but it is interesting to know what it is Im "supposed" to believe and think, and some of the girls are cute too. Even the ones who arent bubbleheaded or bleach blondes.
Sorry if they're not on the approved watch-list, but I watch them from time to time. I'm not under the illusion that any news media is unbiased. If I just watch NRA Apple Pie Conservative News, I'm not going to be getting a very clear picture of things.
CNN has had some pretty anti-gun folks. Piers Morgan and Don Lemon are good examples. However, I've also known Brooke Baldwin to tear down anti-gunners in some of her segments. The trick is to approach any news network with skepticism.
Machineguntony
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If you only ever listen to and watch people or media outlets who agree with your point of view, then you have a very narrow and blinded view of the world.
Even if you disagree with your opponent, it is always wise to understand and see the world from your opponent's perspective.
Even if you disagree with your opponent, it is always wise to understand and see the world from your opponent's perspective.
It's called channel surfing, if you don't you'll never be able to get a clear picture of what is going on. It takes effort on your part to sift thru the muck. If you only watched Fox/Karl Rove on election night you would have bet money that Romney was going to win. The man made a fool of himself. If you just sit there and listen to the BS from a single source guess what you are full of.
Back to Mr Lemon, he made a false statement and continued to after additional info was provided to him by his guest. That is not just pushing an agenda, that is down right dishonest at best. A false statement can not be over looked or excused, we must counter it by providing an honest and factual accurate answer.
Exactly.
i watch all the networks from time to time. Sometimes home in on a particular report and check it out with the major US and British networks and Al Jazeera. Yep, that's right, Al Jazeera. That network does not play to a "liberal" or "conservative" base.
IME: All the major networks are sometimes guilty of failing to tell the entire story. They deliberately leave stuff out: Sometimes the stuff left out changes the story dramatically.
I think the old saying: "You're entitled to your own opinion-you're not entitled to your own facts" could have been used to good effect to shut this guy up.
Getting semi-auto and auto mixed up to give the impression that machine guns are going out the door whenever someone gets a whim to buy one is flat out wrong and dishonest.
Getting semi-auto and auto mixed up to give the impression that machine guns are going out the door whenever someone gets a whim to buy one is flat out wrong and dishonest.
Rattlehead
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CNN hasn't been a reputable news organization for years, which has become even worse now that half their morning reporting is "what's happening on Twitter"... James Earl Jones may call them "the most trusted name in news", but the only people who actually regard them as such are fools.
An intentional attempt to misportray the capabilities and ease of access to firearms is expected, not a surprise from this organization.
James Earl Jones may call them "the most trusted name in news", but the only people who actually regard them as such are fools.An intentional attempt to misportray the capabilities and ease of access to firearms is expected, not a surprise from this organization.
g.willikers
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Judging from the ratings, CNN is so far down the list of what folks actually watch, probably hardly anyone even heard him.
Brotherbadger
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Don Lemmon has been called out multiple times for his nonsense. This isn't new.
Andy Blozinski
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While he probably has an agenda and is willing to artificially shunt his article to suit his personal taste, many of you are doing the same. You are depicting his description of an AR-15 as an automatic weapon to mean you want him to be making the ignorant mistake or willful fabrication of depicting it as a fully automatic weapon.
I don't know about you, but I've heard of this little old pistol called a .45 auto. That is one of the very common terms that have been applied to it since before any of you were born. Really he's just using common vernacular that the gun community has used for decades.
The guy probably deserves your ire for other reasons, but if you want to nitpick him, you should be accurate in your nitpicking.
I don't know about you, but I've heard of this little old pistol called a .45 auto. That is one of the very common terms that have been applied to it since before any of you were born. Really he's just using common vernacular that the gun community has used for decades.
The guy probably deserves your ire for other reasons, but if you want to nitpick him, you should be accurate in your nitpicking.
The NFA talks in terms of "Machine Gun" and defines what constitutes a machine gun. Anyone who knows anything about guns (and I believe Lemmon knows about guns) now distinguishes between full-auto and semi-auto. The term automatic weapon, especially when talking about AR's is intentionally ambiguous.
So what Lemmon said was misleading and Lemmon knew it. If he knows enough to go into a gun store and find his way to a "45 Auto", he knows enough to explain what he means by "automatic weapon". His failure to explain, even when given a chance, shows that he intends to be misleading.
