Conservatives Lambast CNN Reporter for Bogus Semi-Automatic Gun Claim After School Shooting
CNN Senior Justice Correspondent Evan Perez incorrectly claimed semi-automatic guns can “shoot dozens of bullets in just one trigger pull” — and a number of X users were quick to point out his firearm flub.
“These things can shoot dozens of bullets, you know, in just one trigger pull, right? And so what happens in this case is, sometimes they have enough time to to reload,” Perez told Pamela Brown. “It’s one of the most horrific things for students to be sitting there. You saw this in Uvalde, you see this in Newtown, repeatedly, where a shooter has enough time to reload. And the horrific nature of this is, you know, for little kids to be facing this.”
Perez’s bogus comment followed the deadly attack on a Minneapolis Catholic church on Wednesday morning that killed two children and injured 17 other people, including 14 kids.
Semi-automatic weapons — rather than shooting dozens of bullets per trigger pull — shoot one bullet per trigger pull.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara, during a press briefing, said the male shooter was armed with a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol when he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot.
Steve Guest, a former communications advisor for Sen. Ted Cruz (R), shared a clip of Perez’s comment to X soon afterwards.
“That is factually inaccurate,” Guest said. “A semi-automatic rifle fires one bullet per pull of the trigger. False anti-gun fear mongering during breaking news is sick.”
A number of other right-leaning X accounts shared their displeasure with Perez as well.
“Fake news using a tragedy to push lies about how guns work. Disgusting,” Libs of TikTok posted.
The Patriot Oasis, which has nearly 300,000 followers on Elon Musk’s platform, said “CNN is fear-mongering at the expense of children’s lives.”
Nick Fondacaro, an editor for NewsBusters, ripped Perez as well, saying he was “either intentionally lying or you’re speaking in complete ignorance. Neither of which are becoming of a journalist.”
You get the idea.
Watch the clip above via CNN.
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