> Our so called ‘professional media’ are idiots when it comes to guns. I still want one of those 44mm pistols I read about.
>> LOL! As I recall, the pistol in question was actually a .44 cal.
>> Idiot journalist didn’t know the difference between calibre and mm.
Back during the Koresh siege, then Cong. Schumer intentionally pulled the same thing on NRA’s Waye LaPierre.
They were on some TV talk show with Bob Schieffer talking about the firearms in the compound. Schumer holds up two cartridges: a 50 cal and a 9MM and says (paraphrsed) “Koresh has THIS (50 cal) 50MM while the police have this 9MM.” LaPierre says nothing. I about threw my cup at the TV in disgust. Here was a great chance for LaPierre to point out Shumer’s trick by saying something like “This man does not know the difference between the metric and decimal system who is writing gun laws. He is either ignorant or lying, and in either case should not be in office”
Some time later I happened to catch a TV news segment where Shumer was in the hallway and some other pol comes up to him and says “Good job on Schieffer’s show” and the puke just gave that slimy smile you always see him with.
I wrote the NRA taking LaPierre to task over the lost opportunity. Never got a reply.