Douva 0 #1 September 13, 2004 1:00pm ET 12:00pm CT 11:00pm MT 10:00pm PT CNN's Live From is about to air a piece on the sunset of the Assault Weapons Ban. Edited to add: If you miss it, CNN provides free online transcripts of all their shows.I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jimbo 0 #2 September 13, 2004 Wow. It would be great if someone could capture this segment and put it up someplace for download. - Jim"Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Douva 0 #3 September 13, 2004 It looks like a lot of CNN's shows may be covering the AWB sunset today. The hosts of CNN's Crossfire (4:30pm ET, 3:30pm CT, 2:30pm MT, 1;30pm PT) are going to debate it on today's show.I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Douva 0 #4 September 13, 2004 Live From did two segments on the AWB sunset. They did one early in the show that struck me as being slanted in favor of the AWB and a second segment about one hour into the show that struck me as being pretty balanced. Check out the transcript on CNN's website, after the show.I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 26 #5 September 13, 2004 "Live from the Sunset of the Assault Weapons Ban..." I'm just picturing some CNN crew standing out in the street, waiting for the machine gun fire to break out the moment the law sunsets...-- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #6 September 13, 2004 QuoteCNN's Live From is about to air a piece on the sunset of the Assault Weapons Ban. The amount of lies and deception going around the news is astounding. Just this morning I've seen: 1) John Kerry referring to the affected firearms as "machine guns". They aren't. Either he is ignorant of what the law is really about, or he knows the truth and is intentionally lying to the public - either way, that makes him undeserving of the Presidency. 2) Fox News saying that these are just like the AK-47's seen in the hands of Iraqii fighters. They aren't. The Iraqii AK's are machine guns, while the U.S. AK's affected by the ban are only semi-auto. There are others which I can't remember. Even in the death of this law, hardly anyone bothers to find out the truth and tell it. Stunningly enough, CNN actually had a factual piece. It only took them 10 years to come around and reveal the truth. They had a gun dealer displaying an AR-15 pre-ban rifle, pointing out the things that made it a so-called "assault weapon": a flash suppressor, bayonet lug, pistol grip, and/or a folding stock. They even described these as "cosmetic" features. Wow. Truth. Who would thought of CNN could do it! Attached is a graphic that does a pretty good job of finally explaining the truth to the public. My only complaint here is that when it says; "The expiration Monday of a 10-year federal ban on assault weapons means firearms like AK-47s, Uzis and TEC-9s can now be legally bought", I wish they would specify that these are semi-auto versions of firearms. Too many people automatically (pun intended) presume that these firearms are all full-automatic machineguns. "Assault Weapons" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jib 0 #7 September 13, 2004 Quote"Live from the Sunset of the Assault Weapons Ban..." I'm just picturing some CNN crew standing out in the street, waiting for the machine gun fire to break out the moment the law sunsets... No, that would happen on 60 Minutes... a concurrent explosives expose. -------------------------------------------------- the depth of his depravity sickens me. -- Jerry Falwell, People v. Larry Flynt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peacefuljeffrey 0 #8 September 13, 2004 QuoteLive From did two segments on the AWB sunset. They did one early in the show that struck me as being slanted in favor of the AWB and a second segment about one hour into the show that struck me as being pretty balanced. Check out the transcript on CNN's website, after the show. I heard a segment on NPR today that was pretty slanted. It was in two parts. The first part contained a lot of sound bites from Kerry. It began by saying that the Assault Weapons Ban expires today, and Kerry blames it on President Bush. Ummm, if this were not a biased report, it would treat the expiration as a neutral occurrence. You don't put BLAME on anyone for neutral or positive occurrences. BLAME is reserved for negative occurrences. CREDIT is for positive ones, and if it's neutral, usually it was "CAUSED" or "BROUGHT ABOUT" by someone. Saying that anyone deserves BLAME for the sunset of the AWB is directly implying that the sunset is an objectively undesirable thing and should have been precluded somehow. Those of us who are honest know that this is not the case. The rest of the first part of the report was much the same. Only in the second part did they bother to interview a gun shop owner who described a Colt Match Target M-4, and tried as best he could to explain that it was just cosmetic differences between it and a pre-ban weapon. They DID NOT give him enough airtime to articulate anything about caliber and rates of fire being identical between pre- and post-ban weapons, so only if you knew that already would it be clear to you after this story. And the whole crux of the so-called "support" for the ban rests squarely on the MISCONCEPTION the public has that the banned guns fire faster or more powerfully than non-banned guns -- a LIE that has been DELIBERATELY PERPETUATED by anti-gun people. Blue skies, -Jeffrey --Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
