Shooting at Las Vegas casino

Not an automatic weapon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQA8dwMl90I

The failure of common sense in the legislative branch and at ATF is total.

Not an automatic weapon.

 

Actually, it's a distraction from the primary topic and an attack on the media, two of YF's favorite things, and you are backing him up.

 

No, people look at as YF yanking us into one of his favorite tangents, attacking the media, to distract from an issue that makes Republicans look bad right now.

And many of us find it ridiculous and hypocritical for YF insist on an admission of defeat from others given his own history of refusing to do exactly that on this board. The best he seems to manage is usually "fair enough," which isn't nearly good enough. And it does nothing to help the discussion for you to drag it out even further.

 

And that is one of the Republican talking points. I'd rather focus on....

Bullshit. You don't have to focus on one way of addressing the problem of mass shootings. You can attack it from multiple angles, including improved gun regulation. But Republicans, especially those in Congress, are afraid to give an inch on that issue because they are afraid to piss off the NRA.

 

Well, at least you're focused on what's really important right now.

 

YF was crucifying the media again during understandable confusion in some of the early reports from a catastrophic and extremely violent situation. Crisis journalism aims to inform the public quickly, realizing that updates will be required for clarification and, yes, even corrections. Most of the public understands this. And they demand the news right away.

 

That's a policy answer.

What does the Constitution say?

 

He wasn't crucifying the media. You said that it was an automatic. He said it probably wasn't an automatic. He was responding to your speculation. Then people mocked him. That's how it all got started.

 

It was a de facto automatic, unloading automatic gunfire.

If were're gonna get technical, nobody reported that it was an automatic rifle manufactured in automatic, either.

 

Because they took them down or because they sold out to people worried they'll be banned?

 

Or as Curt Schilling excitedly called it on Twitter last year, the "gun show poophole."

That remains one of my fantasy football team names.

 

I was not “crucifying the media”.

I was cautioning people HERE not to assume the shooter used a highly regulated fully automatic weapon.

I understand early reports often suggest multiple shooters, multiple incidents and fully automatic weapons.