Reuters has a little problem with accuracy, especially when it involves their gun control hobbyhorse.
Swiss set to back tighter gun controls, avoid EU clash: poll
After militants killed scores in Paris and elsewhere in 2015, the EU in 2017 toughened laws against purchasing semi-automatic rifles like the ones used in those attacks, and made it easier to track weapons in national databases.
I asked Reuters, and specifically the author of that article for a reference for that semi-auto claim. Because all the rifles I saw fired in footage from the January Charlie Hebdo and November 2015 attacks were automatic.
No response. From either of them.
So it’s time to shame them again. Last time I did this, it took three tries to persuade them to get the data right.
Let’s look at the French terror attacks.
Charlie Hebdo Attacks
Automatic rifles. Which I knew from seeing the car machinegunned. Rocket launcher. Grenades. All of which are already banned for French civilians. The only semi-auto were pistols.
Even The Telegraph recognized automatic rifles when they saw them.
November Attacks
Weapons:
Tokarev semi-automatic pistol
Skorpion submachine gun
AKS-74?
AK103?
That was an early report, when it wasn’t clear exactly what the murdering scumbags used; just that they were AK-variant assault rifles. And the subgun; automatic.
Later, it got nailed down to specific models.
Specifically, the AK-variants were:
2 Type 56 assault rifle (Chinese AK variant assault rifle)
2 Zastava M70 machine guns (Serbian Ak variant assault rifle)
All automatic AK-variant rifles. Not semi-auto.
So, Reuters and Mr. Shields; would you care to correct the story… and note the correction?
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They don’t have to get the facts right. The facts are whatever the news says they are. Have you not learned anything from watching American journalists at work?
Now that the Muellar report is sort of out, the news media is finished, and the Democratic politicians have taken over as the doofuses of the day. Like, ” we know that the report is missing a lot, so we are going to do our own investigation, even if it takes 2 more years and another 25 million dollars.”
The only thing missing is a clown car, and maybe 3 rings. We already have the keystone kops, with Pelosi, Schumer, and Feinstein, along with their little puppy AOC, running around barking on command. She isn’t even potty trained yet,she keeps peeing on everything.