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We're in the best of hands....
I've been reading Brian Anse Patrick's "NRA and the Mass Media," a very good work, which notes that there are several models to explain the function of the mass media, but the one the media themselves love is where they function as high priests of data, deciding what information their followers should have. With that model in mind...
The Chicago Sun-Times informs its readers that "Even legal, semiautomatic assault weapons aren’t precision instruments. Though each bullet fired requires a separate squeeze of the trigger (unlike fully automatic weapons), after the first round is fired, the trigger loosens for subsequent rounds."
Another paper tells readers that "A Mississippi teacher is circulating a petition online requesting that Dick's Sporting Goods discontinue the sale of high-powered ammunition in light of a Colorado movie theater massacre that killed 12 and wounded 58," and asks "Should Dick's Sporting Goods pull ammunition for high-powered guns from its shelves?"
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A small step, but at least it's in the right direction. Maybe sometime in my grandchildren's lifetimes they'll concede that the "high powered" ammunition they blather about is no more powerful, and often less powerful than the hunting ammunition my grandfather used to use a hundred years ago.
Is Patch.com really a newspaper? I thought it was a blog network like Examiner?
I live in Mississippi and cannot find any reference to this petition in any of the state newspapers. You would think this would at least make the local news.
Since when is .223 "high power ammunition"?
In the second linked article, "...health teacher Getty Israel, ... says pulling high-capacity ammunition from store shelves could deter a similar massacre ..."
I guess you can't load a high capacity magazine with anything but high capacity ammunition.
re: Since when is .223 "high power ammunition"?
Since the military adopted it as it's standard round. Go to any "high power" matches and you will see a lot of .223/5.56 there. Of course when I was growing up big game in NY state had a minimum size of .30 cal and that was considered like standard power :)
Psh the reporter in that second story was really an idiot. The petition they linked had nothing to do with ammo, it's to stop sales of "high capacity" magazines.
The person who wrote the petition?
http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/1615832/getty_israel.html
Not a public schoolteacher I don't believe, "Health Educator" means she owns Pathway to Wellness, LLC - which sounds to me like the kind of feelgood crap a lefty comes up with.
Oh, here's some more of her BS:
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2009/oct/21/israel-no-check-required/
She leans so far left her picture tilted.
What reportologists know about firearms could be put in a thimble and still have room left over for a 3-ring circus. But, like everything else they do not know about, that has never stopped them from publishing just-plain-wrong information.
I'm guessing that "the trigger loosens for subsequent rounds" referes to the difference between an initial double action trigger pull and subsequent single action functioning in a DA/SA firearm. But maybe they mean precisely what they are saying and need to be educated about "trigger slop".
stay safe.