Posted July 11, 2019 6:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

I spend a fair bit of my day pouring over headlines. I read a whole lot of them day in, day out, all dealing with firearms. Most aren’t worth writing about for whatever reason. Others are duplicates of stories I’ve already written about. Still others are local crimes that, based on past traffic, you guys don’t really care about all that much.

However, earlier today I came across a headline that annoyed me to no end. “Police: Suspects used semi-automatic guns to rob victims in Nutbush,” he headline reads.

Apparently, two guys in Memphis pulled up behind a truck as it was being loaded with something. Then the two guys got out of their car and robbed the other party.

No big deal. However, as the headline notes, they used–GASP!–semiautomatic weapons!

As the article notes further down, however:

The suspects were armed with semi-automatic handguns. Both were wearing black shorts and white sandals.

In other words, they were armed with the most popular category of handgun on the market.

Yet look again at that headline for a moment. While they’re paraphrasing the police, let’s be honest for a moment here. The only reason to include the guns being semi-automatic there is to create fear.

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Source:: Bearing Arms

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