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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy, oh why, do gun enthusiasts feel the need to continue to bullshit us about Sandy Hook?
A couple weeks ago, the viral Facebook craze was that supposedly Adam Lanza never used an AR-15 in the shootings but instead used only handguns, and that the media was perpetuating the AR-15 story in order to support assault weapons restrictions. This was based on a single errant news report made the day after the shooting which was quickly corrected by the investigating authorities.
Now, in the wake of well-publicized emotional testimony of at least two parents of Sandy Hook Elementary victims, Neil Heslin and David Wheeler, supporting further gun control action, the newest Facebook virality is a video clip of another Sandy Hook parent, Bill Stevens, defiantly echoing Charlton Heston's line about prying one's gun from one's "cold, dead hands."
Only one problem: Unlike Heslin or Wheeler, Bill Stevens isn't actually a father of a victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings. His daughter didn't even attend Sandy Hook Elementary but instead a neighboring school.
The story here:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/02/07/bill_stevens_sandy_hook_father_viral_gun_rights_defense_isn_t_actually_the.html
So claiming that Stevens is a "Sandy Hook parent" makes about as much sense as claiming that someone was a "Titanic Survivor" just because they happened to be on another boat at the same time that the Titanic sunk.
With all this continuous bullshit from the gun enthusiasts being spouted as truth, one really has to wonder how appealing their actual arguments really are if they feel the need to just make shit up out of thin air.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)have their own history, their own science, their own version of reality. Yes it's easy for those not caught up in their delusions to point out the untruths. But it's pointless. They believe what they want to believe and telling them it's not real only gets one yelled at.
Just the other day I was listening to the radio and a caller calls in to say only handguns were used at Sandy Hook and nothing the reporters said would convince this caller otherwise. Some people live in a bubble and no amount of science or facts or reality will change their point of view.
It's important to challenge their point of view not to change them, but to inform others so they aren't taken in by their falsehoods. So thanks for article! I didn't know about this.
nana sew dear
(11 posts)I don't get why anyone feels the need for an automatic /semi-automatic fire arms or giant ammunition stock piles. It doesn't matter that they can't hunt with that type of weapon or target practice. It doesn't matter that a home arsenal makes their family less safe. Any form of gun control makes the loonies appear and, hey if it helps to fabricate propaganda, lets do that. If we see our president in tears, well he's just manipulating the masses.
Sadly we can't seem to fix that kind of stupid. These are the people who supported Reagan, Bush, Palin and Romney.
frylock
(34,825 posts)krispos42
(49,445 posts)It was done with a semiautomatic rifle fed from a detachable magazine.
The handgun theory was discredited a day or two after the shooting as far as I can recall.
Anybody still flogging it is a dumb ass.