Super Bowl Story Real; What Man Carried Being Exaggerated

A story emerged late last week about a man, distraught over the Tempe, Ariz. city council not issuing his business a liquor permit, who considered taking a position above the Super Bowl stadium in Arizona and opening fire on spectators. He did not. In fact, he went home and later turned himself in. Tragedy averted, the media is saying.

But the story doesn't end there, thanks to the gun control extremists who have beating the drum for more media coverage. Since the man did nothing, they are twisting words -- okay, lying -- t o anyone who will listen, knowing that many Americans don't understand the Brady law that was allowed to expire because it did nothing to stop crime.

Pro-Gun Progressive, for example, noted several "discrepencies" in fact vs. reality. As the PGP writers not, finding the bias in this story "wasn't even sporting."

When I saw a television news story on the subject, the anchor -- clearly reading from the Violence Policy Center's (biased) cheat sheet, stated that the gun the man had was the favorite tool of the military. Now, all the men and women I know in uniform -- and they are many in number -- would disagree, opting instead for the fully automatic rifles that are issued by the U.S. military.

But VPC's Josh Sugarmann has never been one to let the facts stand in the way of a good story.