NRA News Issues Correction For Report Blaming Bill Clinton For Navy Yard Shooting

[Robb]

NRA News host Cam Edwards issued a correction the day after after Breitbart.com's A.W.R. Hawkins claimed on his show that the mass shooting at Washington Navy Yard "happened because Bill Clinton mandated that" military bases "be gun-free zones." In truth, the policy cited by Hawkins to support this claim allows guns to be carried on military bases under a substantial number of circumstances and was actually enacted during the George H.W. Bush administration.

The myth that a Clinton-era policy was responsible for the shooting, which claimed the lives of 12 victims, was the centerpiece of right-wing media's failed attempt to establish that the Navy Yard shooting took place in a "gun-free zone."

Edwards issued a correction during his September 18 broadcast, citing a Media Matters blog that addressed Hawkins' claim, during a segment with Washington Times senior opinion editor Emily Miller. After Edwards acknowledged that the policy was enacted under George H.W. Bush, Miller said, "Then I've written that wrong too," and she added, "Are you sure that's correct before I change it too? ... Because I don't believe anything Media Matters says."

Hawkins' claim in a Breitbart.com article about the supposed Clinton-era policy originated from a 2009 Washington Times editorial that falsely stated, "Among President Clinton's first acts upon taking office in 1993 was to disarm U.S. soldiers on military bases." Miller promoted that editorial on September 17 on Twitter....

Read More: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/09/18/nra-news-issues-correction-for-report-blaming-b/195953

[frylock]

1. "Because I don't believe anything Media Matters says."

despite their multiple, sourced and linked references. fuggin idiot.

[IronLionZion]

2. No matter how "gun free" anyone claims it is,

the Navy Yard is guarded by soldiers armed with very big automatic rifles. I've seen it. You can walk by and see it any time. After Newtown, the NRA wanted good guys with guns, and the Navy Yard has many of them.

The shooter got his gun through security because it was not their policy to stop people from bringing guns into the navy yard, and was not a gun free zone.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. This whole "gun free zone" bullshit as it relates to the Navy Yard shooting is the biggest BS....

Apparently it was so much of a "gun free zone" that the shooter, after getting onto the premises with his legally purchased weapon, then was able to shoot an armed guard on the premises and then take his weapon.

Please explain how this was a "gun free zone". Because that makes no sense whatsoever.

Oh, and it appears the rotting corpse of Andrew Breitbart and his BS news organization strikes again.