I hate these kind of headlines.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

OK....
Why the headline bugs me.

It is heavily biased and editorialized with intent to mislead.

Do you like accurate, to the point reporting? If so - the headline should read "Felon arrested for possession of firearms".

That, I have no problem with. It's good reporting - it's a good arrest. The guy is a felon - and he's not supposed to have firearms.

All is well....

But ---

First off - what does his being a member of the Proud Boys have to do with anything? It has ZERO to do with his arrest. It has ZERO to do with his having firearms.

But - everybody knows they are TERRORISTS... Right???? Well -- not in the US. In Canada, they are. But - we haven't made being stupid illegal. Or distasteful. Don't believe me? Go google and see if they are listed by the US government as terrorists.

Then -- why is "Ghost guns" mentioned? He will be charged for FIREARM possession. Not Ghost guns. Why?? Because -- regardless of what this kind of reporting has done to your brain - CONVINCING you that "Ghost guns are illegal" --- they most certainly are not illegal.

Don't believe me? Go google "Are ghost guns legal"? I'll wait while you look.

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That's what bothers me. It's obvious as hell that the headline was made to inflame, and mislead.


It's what FOX does.

How would you feel about a headline like this one - 

'Neo-nazi Sentenced For Sex Trafficking of Six Year Old Girls'?

Do we really need to know he's a neo-Nazi? Does it really matter if the people he was trafficking were six years old, or that they were girls?  Sex trafficking is illegal anyway, so surely the man's politics and the age/sex of his victims are all irrelevant to the story. 

Boru