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I’m sure you’ve all heard and/or seen the viral video of the dancing FBI agent who drops his firearm which discharges and injures someone at a wedding. Well I hadn’t, until today…
My wife tells me the story, which came up at her office. The IT guy tells her that he saw a video of an FBI agent who was dancing at a wedding, accidentally drops his guns and it goes off hitting someone in the leg.
My wife (who also knows firearms) asks, ” what kind of gun was it?” The IT guy responds, “it was a Glock.” My wife’s immediate answer “No way that gun went off because it fell.”
A debate ensured for 10 mins, with the IT guy insisting that he actually saw the video and read multiple news articles that confirm his belief.
Taking a page from our book, my wife bet him $1000 that either it wasn’t a Glock or that the fall didn’t cause the discharge. The IT guy took her up on the bet.
They reviewed the video a dozen times. The footage wasn’t super clear and it happens pretty fast. When you really pay attention, you notice that the gun doesn’t discharge when it fell, but when the agent goes to grab it, he puts his finger on the trigger.
My wife just made a quick $1000!!!!
The point of the story, isn’t the bet or that my wife was right. The simple fact that not one article on this topic, tells the reader what the agent actually did. In fact, all of the articles that I saw, claiming to be news, misleads the reader to think the gun accidentally discharged, when it fell to the floor.
Now, there is no real way to know if its lazy journalism, or an intentional anti-gun scare tactic, but either way it’s an excellent example of fake news. The story they a purporting isn’t about an FBI agent, but rather the danger of firearms. That’s the real agenda of these articles and “journalists”.
Unfortunately this is nothing new. For decades, the media and activists have been trying to recode the gun discussion with trigger words and definitions that don’t exist in reality. “Assault Weapon” in its current form, isn’t real. The only Assault Weapons are automatic ones that have been banned for decades, and NOBODY is advocating for them to return to civilian use (mostly). What they define as Assault Weapon is purely cosmetic, wether its a pistol grip or plastic stock, etc. This is the equivalent to painting a racing strip on your car and making it no longer street legal. It doesn’t change the performance or ballistics of the bullet, doesn’t make it hit harder or faster. It only makes it look cooler, which is the only thing they are trying to ban.
Who’s a gun ban for anyway? The “bad guys”? They don’t buy guns legally. If guns were outright banned in the US, do you think they won’t be able to get one? Millions of pounds of drugs come into the US illegally, you don’t think they can bring in illegal guns with them? We can stop the flow of drugs, how can we stop criminals and gangs from importing weapons to protect those drugs. Fucking stupid logic.
I’ll give you a perfect example of how stupid most of these laws are. I bought a rifle. The standard rifle I bought comes with a 16 inch barrel. However, with that 16 inch barrel, the overall length of the rifle comes in at 29 inches. Here in California, they think having any rifle that is less that 30 inches is somehow evil and can hurt people (someone tell me why 29 inches is bad but 30 inches is good, please). So what I had to do, was to buy an 18 inch barrel to bring the overall length to 31 inches, making it legal.
Now, I’m sure some of you reading this think this is a good thing but you probably don’t understand how guns, or rather, bullets work. See, any bullet coming out of an 18 inch barrel is going to gain a lot more velocity that from the shorter one. In essence, you just made me create a more powerful rifle, one that could do more damage. What was the point again???
I don’t want to get into a full on gun debate, in this article, but rather point out that most anti-gun advocates don’t understand firearms and merely pass laws that do not do anything but frustrate law abiding citizens. The media aids in this pursuit by pushing scary gun stories to reinforce myths and to disinform the masses. Fake news, I wish I came up with that term…
