BUSTED! Katie Couric Caught Lying to the American People!

Liberals swear they want to have a reasonable conversation about guns. It turns out, all they're interested in is trying to make responsible gun owners look like fools. As the Washington Free Beacon notes:

The makers of a new Katie Couric documentary on gun violence deceptively edited an interview between Couric and a group of gun rights activists in an apparent attempt to embarrass the activists, an audio recording of the full interview shows.

At the 21:48 mark of Under the Gun a scene of Katie Couric interviewing members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a gun rights organization, is shown.

Couric can be heard in the interview asking activists from the group, “If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from purchasing a gun?”

The documentary then shows the activists sitting silently for nine awkward seconds, unable to provide an answer. It then cuts to the next scene.

However, raw audio of the interview between Katie Couric and the activists provided to theWashington Free Beacon shows the scene was deceptively edited. Instead of silence, Couric’s question is met immediately with answers from the activists. A back and forth between a number of the league’s members and Couric over the issue of background checks proceeds for more than four minutes after the original question is asked.

A liberal's entire worldview when it comes to guns is premised on the notion that gun owners are irresponsible, trigger happy menaces to society who leave firearms lying around willy nilly so that their children can find them. These afterschool special level histrionics drive all liberal gun control campaigns, in the absence of any sort of real inquiry.

So instead of hearing out gun owners and presenting them as the reasonable people they are, Couric, a journalist, engaged in creative editing in order to perpetuate an absurd myth. As Charles Cooke of the National Review notes:

Let’s be clear, here: This is lying. It is dishonesty. It is, in a disfavored word, propaganda. It is also typical. I am frequently struck by how quickly opponents of the Second Amendment resort to mendacity, conflation, and hyperbole, and this incident serves as no exception. This, I suppose, should not surprise, for such behavior is the product of intellectual and moral weakness, and the gun control movement is nothing if not intellectually and morally weak. Those who are comfortable in their arguments do not need to dissemble. Those who have the facts on their side do not need to play games. Those who are capable of debating cogently do not need to silence their opponents, nor to use trickery to make their critics look stupid. Katie Couric is not comfortable, factual, or capable.

Source: AAN