Well, it didn’t take long for the talking heads on mainstream media to bloviate about how horrible and scary AR-15s are. Perhaps the most embarrassing moment came from the so-called reporter, "empty-headed Geraldo Rivera," who impressively managed to get basically everything he said about AR-15s completely wrong.

The fact that this guy will still have a job next week shows everything that is wrong with cable news tied up in one package. No, it doesn’t stand for “automatic rifle” because it’s not an automatic weapon.

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