Highschool shooting and CNN

[GreyGeek]

I was listening to Wolf Blitzer interviewing an "expert" about the school shooting that occurred today.  Blitzer was making a big deal out of the fact that the shooter's father had purchased a .17HMR rifle for the 15 year old about three months ago.   The "expert" chimed in with the claim "with that weapon you can kill someone at 1,000 yards"



Absurd, of course, but in their desire to kill the 2nd Amendment no canard is too egregious.   At 1,000 yards a bullet from that gun will have 9 ft-lbs of energy remaining and at mid-flight it will have to rise more than six feet.

[Mali]

And have perfect weather with no wind or visibility issues.

[depserv]

CNN is not a news network, it's a propaganda network: it does not report news, it promotes a partisan agenda.  Usually the liberal press is made up of very good liars, who are able to mislead their consumers without making any statements that a person can put a finger on and say "this is a factually untrue statement," but in their zeal to promote their agenda and I suppose due to overconfidence, sometimes they do make such statements.  Always good to point it out when they do, and in this case it says something about how their so-called experts are selected.

[farmerbob]

http://www.gunowners.org/alert10242014.htm

What has our government become when they arm those who want to kill us and yet  want to take our arms away from us

[GreyGeek]

http://www.gunowners.org/alert10242014.htm

What has our government become when they arm those who want to kill us and yet  want to take our arms away from us

Easy.   From the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain administration is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

    He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. (i.e., he choses to enforce parts of some laws and ignore other, and creates 'laws' without acts of Congress)
    He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. (Thus allowing our open borders to destroy our sovereignty)
    He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, written Executive Orders unless those people would forcing people relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature Congress, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
...
    He has dissolved Representative Houses ignored Congress repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness timidly protesting his invasions on the rights of the people.
    He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
    He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
    He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
 ...
    He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Federal Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
...
    He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
    He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
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    For protecting them SWAT teams and Federal agents, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
    For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
    For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
    For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
    For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
    ....
    He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
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    He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us (using the FBI's CRS), and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages ISIS, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

See how closely the complaints enumerated in the Declaration of Independence match the transgressions of the administration?

[mott555]

.17 HMR at 1,000 yards? I knew there was a reason I've been wanting a new rimfire!

This is as bad as Don Lemon claiming he bought a fully-automatic AR-15. When pressed on the fully-automatic thing he said “For me, an automatic weapon is anything that you can shoot off a number of rounds very quickly.”

Curiously, I tried to find the exchange on YouTube but they've all been taken down due to copyright claims. Lol.

[GreyGeek]

.17 HMR at 1,000 yards? I knew there was a reason I've been wanting a new rimfire!

This is as bad as Don Lemon claiming he bought a fully-automatic AR-15. When pressed on the fully-automatic thing he said “For me, an automatic weapon is anything that you can shoot off a number of rounds very quickly.”

Curiously, I tried to find the exchange on YouTube but they've all been taken down due to copyright claims. Lol.

They never admit they are wrong, or don't under stand, or have misinterpreted the facts.  And he ends by stating "no one is trying to take away your 2nd amendment rights".   

Apparently he hasn't heard of Dianne Feinstein or half of the other Democrats in the Senate or Congress.