Quote Originally Posted by SteyrAUG View Post
Can't be done when your message gets distorted on purpose. If there was a unbiased media, you would be correct.
Well the alternative is this gets 100% of the news media's eye:

Quote Originally Posted by SteyrAUG View Post
I can remember a range owner in FL who invited the local news to his story after Sandy Hook. He went on to explain that it's ILLEGAL to have ammo shipped to your home but people do it anyway and ignore the law. Then he went on to have employees demonstrate the AR-15 with a 100 round beta drum explaining that a "shooter" could kill 100 people or more without ever having to change the magazine and that is why banning high capacity magazine (I guess in his mind he meant 30s) was pointless.

He then said about a dozen other things that were wrong or misleading. Every other news channel of course picked up the story or at least the footage of the guy shooting an AR with a 100 round death magazine.

Not sure if he was trying to play the "honest and will tell it like it is" gun dealer or if he thought it would be a commercial for AR-15s with 100 rounds of death beta mags, but I know I stopped shooting at his range even though it was 5 minutes from my house and pretty clean. There will never be a shortage of dumbasses who willingly throw us under the bus, even when they sell ARs and high capacity magazines.
Either way, you'll have shitbags out there looking for their fifteen minutes of fame, and they don't care if they throw the whole community under the bus to do it. They don't need to be distorted to fit the narrative. At least if you have some good people out there trying to educate the news media, they can distort all they want, but the facts will remain the same, and they'll have to start with, "So-and-so isn't the typical person you might imagine who owns guns for self-protection."