It notes facts like:
Some facts about the gun used in Thursday's Times Square shooting:
- The MAC-10 is a handheld submachine gun that weighs about 6 pounds, can hold 30 bullets in its magazine and fire more than 1,000 rounds a minute.
If you actually read the very short article you’ll find that the criminal in question did not use the illegal submachine gun, but completely legal semi-automatic pistol called the Masterpiece Arms 9-mm. It shoots exactly One round every time you pull the trigger, just like a revolver. With the crappy trigger, and action of the cheap Masterpiece Arms 9-mm pistol, if well maintained, an expert might get off one round a second, as if you try to shoot it any faster it has a reputation for jamming. Except for its shape, it operates no differently and uses the same ammo as a common World War I pistols like German Luger, except that it’s less reliable, less accurate, and more poorly made. Luckily the Times Square shooter chose a scary looking weapon instead of a well made weapon, and the fine NYPD have ridded us permanently of this criminal.
In the article describing the shooting the Daily News says:
Bullets whizzed through Times Square Thursday when a street hustler armed with a fearsome MAC-10 lost a gunfight with a veteran cop
And
He pulled the stolen semi-automatic murder machine
You just gotta love NYC sensationalism, it is fun to read, just not truthful. First the lie, as their other article reported it wasn’t a MAC-10. Second the “murder machine” quote, sensationalistic but not accurate, it’s no more a murder machine than a car (which kill far more people), or a knife, or rope, or a wrench, or a candlestick. The old board game, Clue, notes lots of tools that can be used to commit murder. Other reports note that the gun jammed after a couple rounds were fired (note: don’t buy, or even steal, cheap weapons for self defense just because they look scary). The obviously less than brilliant criminal, and rapper, because of choosing cool over reliable is now pushing up daisies. This is just the story of a stupid criminal rapper wannabe who thought a cheap scary looking pistol would make him a badass and he’d become famous like Diddy or Jay-Z.
Why isn’t the post noting that the law, which makes having an unpermitted pistol in NYC illegal, doesnt work. Obviously the 20,000 laws concerning guns didn’t stop this criminal from acquiring a weapon. How could more laws have made any difference, the criminal was willing to and did break a bunch of laws, more laws would make no difference. Mayor Bloomburg, predictably, is using this event to call for more restrictive gun laws.
I love this quote “Cops said they had recovered 26 high-powered guns, such as the MAC-10, this year”. Two lies in one short sentence, the gun in question wasn’t a MAC-10, and it isn’t a “high-powered” gun. A 9mm semi-automatic pistol is generally considered minimal for self protection, most police forces have either never used them or replaced 9mm weapons with the higher powered weapons because of the rounds ineffectiveness. They did note that the 26 "high-powered" weapons were of 5427, if you do the math you'll see that less than one half of one percent of the recovered guns are like the MAC-10. Criminals choosing this type of weapon is obviously not much of a problem.
The Daily News depends on the ignorance of the public for it's lies to go unnoticed. The left is again demonstrating that it is more than willing to use lies and scare tactics to restrict the liberty of citizens.
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