Posted on 01/24/2016 8:17:42 AM PST by rktman
With shootings like the ones that occurred in San Bernardino, Oregon and Paris still on the collective mind of the world, the gun industry is working harder than ever to distance itself from the fallout and the liability that comes with it - at least, that's what two reporters from The Guardian would have you believe.
Mae Ryan and Rupert Neate were ejected from the Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas on Tuesday after they raised issue with their press passes being seized during SHOT Show, the largest gun industry trade show in the world.
The journalists believe they were asked to leave because of their reporting on gun control and the firearms used during a deadly shooting spree in San Bernardino on Dec. 2, when 14 people were killed and 21 wounded by Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, during a holiday party at a government services center where the former of the two was an employee. The couple immediately fled the scene and were later killed in a shootout with police.
(Excerpt) Read more at guns.com ...
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/23/sex-guns-ammo-inside-worlds-largest-gun-industry-trade-fair-shot-show
I suppose they thought they were above the rules. They are after all "the press".
Ooops. Active linky thing:
Get ‘em outta here! Take their coats!
Perfect!
Somebody wears a coat in Vegas???
SHOT shows show, SHOT shows rules. My house, my rules. Your house, your rules. You can follow them or be dis-invited.
“Wah wah! They won’t give us a springboard with which to slander them! So unfair! Wah!”
“People are buying guns as part of the American dream of freedom and liberty,†said Brauer, who is based at the Hull College of Business at Augusta University. “And also, the hope and the dream of being able to use guns in self-defence.â€
I know going through the trauma and legal nightmare of using lethal force would be a dream come true for me!
Smith and WesTOn. LOL
Booth Babes at SHOT Show 2016 – Day 2
http://www.guns.com/2016/01/20/booth-babes-at-shot-show-2016-day-2/
GOOD
“The couple immediately fled the scene and were later killed in a shootout with police.”
They’re shooting reporters now?
“Booth Babes at SHOT Show...”
There were Booth Babes in those photos?
I loathe The Guardian. They are obsessed with America - and not in a good way. Bravo! Kick them all out of the country and take away the passports of the American dolts who write essays for them.
Yeah, I sorta caught that too. I’m sure not everything I write is correct either.
This is a dealer show that is not open to the public just like IBS. Why would you want someone who wants to report negatively on your industry at an industry show. Its like inviting a PETA supporter to a Cattle convention.
In other observations...I just came back Wednesday from Vegas after the International Home Builders Show (IBS) which is while the Shot Show was going on. Felt very safe with the Shot Show in town, but our convention, the Las Vegas Convention Center had tons of police with bomb sniffing dogs. I think the LVPD police thought the Shot Show participants could take care of themselves better than the homebuilders.
To paraphrase jojo biden, “One word. Nail guns.”
Nah. I think it was written fine. The statement about the fleeing Abduls was just close enough in the paragraph about the reporters to have a little fun. You know what I say though?
“It’s a good start!”
I’ve wondered why UK papers are so obsessed with the US for years. There is plenty of crime in the UK and the social pathology in their housing projects is incredible. They ought to be more concerned about their own problems.
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