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Thread #68747   Message #2055834
Posted By: GUEST
18-May-07 - 04:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper
Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper
"Okay first I'm going to let the military side of me rant:

It's not a clip! Its a magazine! For goodness sake if you're going to do a story about hand guns lets get the terminology right!"


The article said: "The pastor of Ruth Street Baptist Church told WJRT-TV that one of the handguns had a bullet in the chamber, and the other handgun's clip had bullets in it."

The paper was merely paraphrasing what the pastor said. It is not the paper's job to correct people's mis-statements, it's the paper's job to report the story.

The moral to the story is: Get the facts/quotes from law enforcement/military when you're talking about guns.

And Little Hawk -- "Well, perhaps we should engage in nation-wide Easter Egg Hunts (by the adult population). Could turn up all kinds of significant results...perhaps even hidden WMD's."


I laughed so hard at this post milk would have shot out my nose had I been drinking.