Posting this for informational purposes only so please dispense with diatribes against the “lamestream liberal media” as I have no idea what content is going to be broadcast beyond what’s in the promo (although I’ll hazard a guess that the NRA won’t be endorsing the show).
CNBC will air a one-hour investigative report titled “America’s Gun: The Rise of the AR-15” by correspondent Brian Sullivan on Thursday, April 25. (http://www.cnbc.com/id/100620263)
It will probably show all the AR-15’s firing full auto. The representative of the “gun culture” will be some moron loudmouth halfcrazed militia member if he is even a gun owner at all and they will probably fire the gun at some targets rigged to explode like Top Shot. Then they will shoot at some level I or level IIa body armor and talk about how it will cut right through police body armor just like a hot knife through butter.
Plus they will probably throw in some morons shooting with a Slidefire stock at zombie targets as an example of the people who own AR-15s.
I’m not even going to watch it. I’m sure it will be full of misinformation and biased BS. Skewing of facts and terrible reporting. I mean, why would they deviate from their norm?
Did you all even watch the trailer? There was no full auto, etc. The first shots was a panorama of a decked out AR in what seems to be a fairly decent build (I think I spy a NSR?).
The caption also tells me that even though it may be a little bit politically biased, CNBC recognizes that the rifle is popular among people like us. I don’t expect them to defend the AR but I don’t think it’s as bad as everyone is saying.
The AR-15 is the most popular and, some would say, misunderstood, rifle in America: an estimated four million are in circulation. You can even buy one at Wal-mart, if they’re not sold out. It has been used in a number of high profile mass murders, yet it is also the preferred rifle of law-abiding homeowners, hunters, and sport shooters across America.
Considering that the trailer was at least 2:1 on anti- vs pro gun scenes and that they had at least 4 different scenes with the word “Why?” along with several politicians asking the same question.
Couple that with several scenes of Aurora, Newtown and military usage of the rifle and only a single scene showing the rifle being used in a civilian context and emphasis of firing a round at 3,000 fps without any contextual information.
No. I don’t believe it will be anything other than a biased hit piece showing people who own ARs as loony nutcase mall ninjas dressing up and playing soldier preparing for a zombie apocalypse or crazed anti-government white supremacist militias stockpiling weapons to protect themselves from Obama’s new Muslim Black Panther Army and not in the “mainstream” of the gun owning public.
They will have some member of the Bull Moose Hunting Society sitting there with a wood stocked double barrel with his finger on the trigger pointing it at everything going on about how “real gun owners” don’t support the NRA and these “dangerous, military grade weapons”.
No way will someone in the media give a fair shake to something like this. The Politburo won’t let it happen.
I love how whenever the evil black rifles are shown, they are shown in a strobing, shocking, ‘scary’, flashy manner as to increase the sensory perception. It’s like freaking Hollywood.
Can they drill the images into one’s brain any harder?
They will not stop until all of them are gone. I think we’re just seeing the beginning.
