Jake Tapper, former reporter for ABC News and now of CNN caught President Obama misspeaking on an important gun fact when addressing an audience to push for stricter gun control laws.
Tapper (to his credit) reported that President Obama mistakenly referred to the gun used in the Sandy Hook elementary shooting as an “automatic weapon” during a fundraiser last week in California.
“It is possible for us to create common sense gun safety measures that respect the traditions of gun ownership in this country and hunters and sportsmen, but also make sure we don’t have another 20 children in a classroom gunned down by a semiautomatic weapon — by a fully automatic weapon in that case, sadly,” Obama said during his remarks...
Tapper immediately jumped on that mistake.
“That is not correct,” Tapper explained. “It was a semiautomatic weapon not a fully automatic weapon. Most fully automatic weapons, machine guns, are essentially banned to the public.”
“This is not the first time a leading advocate for gun control has stumbled on the facts,” Tapper concluded...
Bravo Mr. Tapper! You are perhaps the singular voice for reason and accuracy in reporting in the liberal media. It must be a very lonely experience.
Read cited article in its entirety at the Washington Examiner
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