re: #276 Decatur Deb

The uninformed, from: “Wuffo you jump out of airplanes?”, “Wuffo you got a flash suppressor?”

Just so. The media ignorance that has lead to refer to semi-auto rifles as “automatic weapons”, as was done by Chicago TV news anchor Carol Marin in a Chicago Tribune editorial earlier this year, an editorial so ignorant I was compelled to send a letter to the Tribune’s editorial board over its uninformedness and blatant bias. That sort of bad reporting is something that seriously angers gun owners, since they rightly feel that the people writing harsh stories about guns do not actually understand guns and their uses. And that’s one of the things that inhibits any sense of compromise on gun matters, as pro-gun people feel they will be misrepresented by the other side.