SF18C
04-29-2013, 20:21
America's Gun: The Rise of the AR-15
Anyone watch this on CNBC? I know, its one of this sites go to TV channels.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100606839
My assessment:
I watched the show and I guess it was fairer that I thought NBC could be.
Yeah there were a few face palm moments but hey, if the left has to own their idiots I guess the right has to own theirs too.
CONS:
Mr. Yeager's part was downer! But he wouldn’t be a “vocal” voice if people didn’t have over vast amounts of money to him and give him an audience. Plus, he walked out on a question of his actions and words!
The 3D gun segment, fair but unnecessary – it is NBC after all. Not sure how it really added to the discussion.
Pros:
I liked the Girls with Gun segment, showed real women and why they like the AR-15.
They were clear on the history of the AR designation, the difference between an AR and M16/4.
And most shocking of all, real stats/facts on the gun deaths by an AR vs other guns!
Do betters:
Wish they had expanded on the difference between an AR and the M1, showing the ballistics, or “how powerful” the bullet fired form each would be. To contrast with the “medical” evidence of the trauma from an AR-15.
They didn’t go out of their way to find the fringe element on the left that wants to ban, confiscate and outlaw the AR, but then again this in still NBC. That is the regular audience on NBC!
Anyone watch this on CNBC? I know, its one of this sites go to TV channels.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100606839
My assessment:
I watched the show and I guess it was fairer that I thought NBC could be.
Yeah there were a few face palm moments but hey, if the left has to own their idiots I guess the right has to own theirs too.
CONS:
Mr. Yeager's part was downer! But he wouldn’t be a “vocal” voice if people didn’t have over vast amounts of money to him and give him an audience. Plus, he walked out on a question of his actions and words!
The 3D gun segment, fair but unnecessary – it is NBC after all. Not sure how it really added to the discussion.
Pros:
I liked the Girls with Gun segment, showed real women and why they like the AR-15.
They were clear on the history of the AR designation, the difference between an AR and M16/4.
And most shocking of all, real stats/facts on the gun deaths by an AR vs other guns!
Do betters:
Wish they had expanded on the difference between an AR and the M1, showing the ballistics, or “how powerful” the bullet fired form each would be. To contrast with the “medical” evidence of the trauma from an AR-15.
They didn’t go out of their way to find the fringe element on the left that wants to ban, confiscate and outlaw the AR, but then again this in still NBC. That is the regular audience on NBC!