The media Anti-Gun narrative in re: Flash Suppressors

The New York shooting was a terrible occurrence, and as far as I am concerned was a copy cat attack egged on by the relentless media coverage and hype of the Oregon and Sandy Hook Shootings.

In every story about the incident I have read so far the rifle is described as "Bushmaster rifle, which had a combat-style flash suppressor".  A flash suppressor, is being attributed as some evil nasty thing only on assault weapons.

Uh WRONG!

Here is one story plus the link to the original:

"WEBSTER, N.Y. (AP) — A 24-year-old woman was arrested Friday and charged in connection with the Christmas Eve ambush slaying of two volunteer firefighters responding to a house fire in upstate New York.

Dawn Nguyen of Rochester faces a state charge of filing a falsified business record, State Police Senior Investigator James Sewell said. Nguyen also faces a federal charge; a news conference with the U.S. attorney in western New York was scheduled for 4 p.m. Friday.

Sewell said the state charge is connected to the purchase of an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and a 12-gauge shotgun that William Spengler had with him Monday when firefighters Michael Chiapperini and Tomasz Kaczowka were gunned down. Three other people were wounded before the 62-year-old Spengler killed himself. He also had a .38-caliber revolver, but Nguyen is not connected to that gun, Sewell said.

The .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle, which had a combat-style flash suppressor, is similar to the one used by the gunman who massacred 20 children and six women in a Newtown, Conn., elementary school earlier this month.

Nguyen and her mother, Dawn Welsher, lived next door to Spengler in 2008. On Wednesday and again on Friday, shortly before her arrest, she answered her cellphone and told The Associated Press that she didn't want to talk about Spengler. Her brother, Steven Nguyen, told the Democrat and Chronicle newspaper of Rochester that Spengler stole the guns from Dawn Nguyen."

Look around yourself.  I've read 11 stories so far by AP, Reuters and others.  ALL of them include a description of either a "Combat" or "Military" flash suppressor or flash hider.

This is an attempt by the media to demonize a firearm accessory and to tar any firearm which might use a flash hider or a muzzle compensator.  Uneducated people don't know the difference between a flash suppressor or a compensator so by the media's constant use of the term Military or Combat flash suppressor, they skew the public's view of any firearm.

A flash suppressor, flash hider, muzzle compensator is nothing but a tool attached to another tool.  The firearm.

That is what the media is trying to demonize.  A piece of metal that weighs at most 2 or 3 ounces for most of them, that has cuts either milled or EDM'd into it that redirects the hot gasses of a fired cartridge to either reduce the amount of flame coming from the muzzle or to reduce the amount of recoil in the firearm.

So when you see news stories about that little chunk of evil metal, please leave a comment for the story if you can.

And if you meet someone who has limited knowledge of firearms, please educate them.  

A flash suppressor or a muzzle compensator is just a tool to help make shooting more comfortable and fun.

And as far as dangerous weapons, my car can be a weapon, the axe in the bed of my truck, the tire iron next to it, my pocket knife, my keys.  There are thousands of thing that can be used to injure someone.  By themselves they aren't dangerous.  All of those thing require two things to injure someone else.

Intent and the Will.

A person must have both the Intent and the Will to use those items to injure another person.  Firearms also require Intent and Will.  

To hear the media and others, a firearm carried on my hip is a "Deadly" weapon.  No it isn't.  "I" am a deadly weapon though.  With or without a firearm.

Objects can be "dangerous" if not used properly.  That is true of all things.  Even water is dangerous if you drink to much too fast.  Plus water can be used as a weapon.  Don't believe me?  What is waterboarding then but water being used as a weapon.  How about the police in Georgia and Alabama using water cannons on civil rights protestors?  ANYTHING can be used as a weapon.  It just takes the intent and the will to do so.

And that is what the media is hoping you won't realize.  So they can demonize a piece of metal in order to demonize what that piece of metal is attached to so they can stir up hysteria to further their agenda.

So watch out for it.  And remember.  There really are no dangerous weapons.  Only dangerous people.

I know it sounds cliche, but it IS true.

ETA: The Dissident Frogman's skewering of the AFP and Press in general



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