More media bias against guns

I read this news article today, and I just got me mad. Once again we see CNN trying to paint guns as something they're not; remember the deception they did about making a fully-automatic AK-47 look like it was covered by the 1994 Clinton Gun Ban? They're up to their old trick again.

And of course, this article is just chock full of errors and obviously anti-gun bias. Let's examine them shall we.

First this quote: "It's not nice we have to arm ourselves like the soldiers in Iraq," said Sgt. Laurie Pfeil, who supervises a sheriff's road patrol in Palm Beach County and is now certified to carry a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle on the job. It's the civilian version of the military's M-16 used by U.S. soldiers in Iraq.

This Sergeant obviously knows nothing about guns, or simply doesn't care. AR-15s are nothing like the M-16s used by the troops in Iraq except for their appearance, that's it. The M-16s are capable of firing three bullets with a single pull of the trigger, an AR-15 can't possibly do that.

Second, this sentence: He lays the blame squarely on lawmakers who allowed the assault weapons ban to expire in 2004.

The Clinton Gun Ban has nothing to do with this issue. Even when the law was still in effect you could legally buy a fully tricked out AK-47, AR-15 or any other firearm you wanted that had a bayonet lug, a folding stock, flash hider, pistol grip and 20-30 round magazine, and it would be perfectly legal. The only thing the law did was stop the manufacture of new models during that ten year period. That's it, nothing else at all!

Third: Designed to be fired from the hip, assault rifles such as the AK-47 can spray at a rate of up to 600 rounds a minute in full automatic mode. It is the weapon of choice for guerillas and gangsters.

What the hell? Since when were such rifles designed to be fired from the hip? And what's that got to do with anything?

Furthermore, what's the potential rate of fire have to do with anything? So you can fire 600 rounds in a minute, so what? Do you have a 600 round magazine? Do you realize how long it'd take to change out all those magazines to equal 600 rounds?

And another thing, a 600 RPM firing rate on automatic mode, that doesn't really amount to anything since these weapons DON'T HAVE AN AUTOMATIC MODE!

Forth: Cops prefer to squeeze off single shots in semiautomatic mode because it makes for more accurate shooting. Some semiautomatic weapon's can fire with pinpoint accuracy from as far as 100 yards away.

So these rifles are both accurate and inaccurate at the exact same time. That's a contradiction in terms and should negate the entire sentence. but just for argument's sake let's examine it.

When was the last time you ever managed to see any rifle, even a hunting rifle with a heavy bull barrel and long ranged magnified scope, manage to hit an inch-wide target at 100 yards?

"Pinpoint accuracy" is something reserved for very high-quality match-grade rifles that cost thousands of dollars and are used for sporting events. These guns are made to very high tolerances; so high that even a little bit of dirt will make them jam. The average firearms for the civilian market, as far as accuracy goes, is designed for 2-6" at 100 yards.

Fifth: The magazines used by law enforcement typically carry 20 or 30 rounds, adding to the ability to better respond under fire.

You're always hearing calls for restrictions on "high-capacity magazines" because "they contribute to mass killings" and other crap like that. Yet here they say that they're the kind used by police. Either that means these magazines have nothing to do with killing, or the police are being given weapons and munitions to be used for killing innocent people. Which is it?

Sixth: There's no doubt that urban street warfare, aided by a proliferation of cheap automatic weapons, has come even to Palm Beach County, once high society's vacation mecca and a retirement destination for northern snowbirds.

If criminals really are getting automatic weapons, then they're importing them illegally from outside the country and breaking all laws on the books, because they can't get them here in America. So obviously renewing a ban on them won't do any good now will it?

Seventh: Assault weapons have been used to kill eight people and wound 25 here over the last two years.

Eight people in the last two years? Four people a year? Help me out with this one, I'm failing to see the national emergency that's going on here.

Eighth: "They don't have .38s anymore. They have AK-47s. ...They have automatic weapons now," said Sgt. Pfeil.

Again, not automatic weapons, or at least not legally obtained ones at any store in America. Just doesn't work that way.

Ninth: "The streets of South Florida are being flooded by AK-47s and assault weapons from old Soviet bloc countries. It's driven the price down, making the availability greater," said Chief Timoney.

According to that statement the guns the criminals are getting are being imported from the Soviet Union. And those guns are banned from importation.

Tenth: Chief Timoney says he started noticing an increase since the federal assault weapon ban lapsed in 2004. Since then, he says homicides in the city of Miami involving assault weapons have been up -- 18 percent last year and 20 percent this year.

The 1994 law did absolutely nothing that would've prevented these killings from occurring, bringing it back won't do anything either.

When was the last time a law banning or restricting something ever did anything to stop a criminal even in the slightestt?

You would think that CNN would've learned from the last time around, when they were called out by Wayne LaPierre and bitch slapped live on the news for their lying about the Clinton Gun Ban. But it just seems that they can't help but lie and lie and lie!