On Fox News this week there was some heated gun control debate where Geraldo Rivera talked about AR-15s and maybe should have instead left it to people familiar with the topic and not just tried to push the Left’s preferred narrative:
Geraldo Rivera just said with a straight face on The Five that the "AR" in AR-15 stands for "Automatic Rifle." pic.twitter.com/9HPkSlfdOT
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 17, 2023
Rivera responded to Greg Gutfeld’s question about what the “AR” in “AR-15” means and said it stands for “automatic rifle.” Maybe it should be “MG” for “machine gun”:
He literally said “it’s a machine gun.” Get this idiot off television. https://t.co/Cs9zpAZiuU
— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) January 18, 2023
Add it all up and Rivera responded in a very familiar way. This happens a lot — a gun control advocate will make a claim about guns, get proven wrong, and then dismiss it as not really mattering because at the end of the day guns can kill people:
Heard the Daily Caller and fellow travelers are ranting about my incorrect definition on-air of “AR” as in AR-15. Whatever. Point is, there is no place (other than sporting clubs and similar skilled settings) for assault rifles.
They’re substitute appendages.— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) January 18, 2023
Definitions don’t matter now, at least when it comes to guns.
They are rifles, just like millions of other semi-automatic rifles in existence. They just look scarier, they are easy to use for home defense and their use is protected by out Constitution. https://t.co/VX2gM6SEOm
— Bob Spainhour (@bob_spainhour) January 18, 2023
Normally I think the semantics over ARs are boring, but you went on air with a flub that anyone who has spent 10 seconds in the gun debate would've never made. That alone shows that you don't know anything about this topic. https://t.co/loSzOJgjbV
— Can't Kill the Milk Roach (@OnMemoryBliss) January 18, 2023
How can you call for government control of something you can’t define?
Who are you to decide “what place” my freedoms are allowed to be exercised? https://t.co/O67fIXCGSo
— I Am Leah (@Bossy_Leah) January 18, 2023
Is there now an attempt to change the definition of AR-15 to “substitute appendage”? Maybe that will soon become “assault substitute appendage.”
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