CNN's @GaryTuchmanCNN goes to a shooting range to take an up-close look at an AR-15-style rifle with retired Lieutenant General Mark Hertling. https://t.co/FtolhKEC7b https://t.co/vYvggZxYB7
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) February 27, 2018
This is the funniest, perhaps the most inaccurate piece that CNN has ever done, and that’s saying some.
Via Daily Wire:
On Wednesday, CNN aired an embarrassing clip of one of their employees attempting to shoot an AR-15 in a segment highlighted by inaccurate statements from both CNN and a retired military officer.
Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling accompanied CNN’s Gary Tuchman to a shooting range for a demonstration on shooting the AR-15, which drew instant mockery on social media.
Tuchman falsely asserted that a defining characteristic of the AR-15 is the “power of the bullet” that it fires. This is a common lie spread by the media as the try to scare people into calling for AR-15s to be banned.
Joseph P. Avery, a Ph.D. who has more than 30 years with the federal government in Army combat arms as an Air Force officer and in the Department of Defense, argues that the U.S. military is at a disadvantage because it uses the M-4/M16, which is the military version of the AR-15. Avery writes: