Their inability to differentiate between a Sig MCX and an AR15 is somewhat irrelevant in light of the event. It’s a weak defense at the very least. We should be focused on the the statistics, not the semantics. IMHO.
The whining about "assault weapon" and "automatic" firearms fall into the same category.
If those are the best arguments one can bring up, please stay quiet.
Even better than statistics would be a sound moral argument derived from the right of self-defense, something about which there is near universal agreement, and opposition to which exposes heartlessness and cruelty.
It seems that AR15, AK47 and Glock have become universal media shorthand for “Assault Rifles” and “scary guns”.
The constant leftist mantra has schooled a certain portion of the population to have a Pavlovian response to those terms so why cloud the issue with specifics and unfamiliar terminology?
In another shooting not long ago the media could not differentiate between an AR-15 and a pump shotgun.