So hard to get it right

[Drail]

With the stupidity of our media it makes you wonder about every single story they report on doesn't it?

 

[JRH6856]

Read my signature (last line)

 

[GunnyBob]

Learn something new every day. I was unaware that skateboarding and antique furniture were so very important to a free society, and therefore protected by the Constitution.

Thinking like that is what led to our slow surrender to the anti's. "Well gee; there's lots of stuff that are regulated..."

 

[mattmann]

Guess its our job to educate them!

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[MachIVshooter]

Ban skateboarding? Always, actually. My local city wanted to ban the riding of skateboards on city sidewalks a few years ago.

There's a good reason for it. Watch a toddler get plowed over by a wreckless teenage kid with his pants to his knees, you'll agree that they should skate in a skate park just like we shoot on a range.

Personal freedom is contingent on not endangering others with whatever you're doing; Some activities need to be confined to appropriate venues.

As for the OP-

Yeah, "news" was bad enough when it was just factual errors. These days, it seems like they're recruiting editors with fourth grade writing skills; I seem to see more misspellings and grammatical errors in a typical news article than I do on these boards. It's annoying, but as I get older, I find myself far less concerned with what the talking heads have to say than keeping up with my own family and business. It's pretty much all smoke & mirrors, with the occasional important message somewhere in the mix. Find those messages, get info from several sources, and then try to find the "truth" somewhere in between the sensationalism and egregious errors made in haste to publish it first.

 

[sig220mw]

Errors in the news reporting and also in television shows and movies in regards to firearms is not news to any of us. For the most part the ones making the errors are usually being fed bad info and none of them give a damn anyway. After all it's not important to them. I watched the movie "Unstoppable" a while back and being a railroad engineer I laughed through the whole movie. It was so full of errors that it took me nearly 1 and 1/2 hours to watch the first 30 minutes. I finally gave up and just let the disc play. It really got me to thinking though. It made me wonder how badly they are butchering other subjects that I know nothing about. It really changed my already cynical perspective and made it even more so.

 

[mortablunt]

There's a good reason for it. Watch a toddler get plowed over by a wreckless teenage kid with his pants to his knees, you'll agree that they should skate in a skate park just like we shoot on a range.

My brother was turned off of skiing by being taken out by this huge, hulking teenage snowboarder. They proceeded to slide a good quarter way down the whole mountain.