Media ignorance and the gun debate, part the umpteenth

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Is it too much to ask that the people weighing in on the gun violence debate first familiarize themselves with the subject? Apparently.

When it comes to firearms, the laws that govern them, public sentiment, etc., the national press is basically illiterate. Indeed, reporters and pundits regularly display a level of ignorance rarely seen and certainly never tolerated in any other issue debate. But being generally misinformed doesn’t stop them from sounding off, telling viewers and readers what’s really at stake in the debate.

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