NRA TV host Grant Stinchfield
NRA TV host Grant Stinchfield is once again attacking the mainstream media — and this time it’s over articles that describe guns and firearms as “weapons.”
Via Media Matters, Stinchfield went on a lengthy rant against an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that talked about fears that campus open carry laws would lead to college students getting drunk and firing their weapons. Stinchfield singled out the use of the word “weapon” as a textbook example of “media bias” intended to make the general public afraid of guns.
“It’s their use of the word weapon that has me bewildered,” he said of the article. “The reporter uses ‘weapons’ in place of firearms or guns so many times, it just becomes bizarre. Here, ‘Fears of gun owners getting drunk and firing their weapons.’ I firmly believe she uses the phrase weapons over firearms in an effort to scare the uninformed.”
Stinchfield then acknowledged that the reporter may have been in the right referring to firearms as “weapons” because the state of Georgia does refer to its open carry permits as “weapons carry […]
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All gun owners are potential terrorists in my understanding of the word; not just toward others but for family members within their own family, especially young ones.
Bizarre. The mainstream media certainly knows a lot about propaganda..since that is their bread and butter. The NRA apparently is following their lead in fine fashion. Since virtually anything can be used as a weapon, referring to a gun as a weapon is both redundant and nearly meaningless at the same time.