-By Warner Todd Huston
Reuters highlights a great little tale filled with anti-gun bias and bad reporting, all topped with an extremely misleading photo that presents a wonderful example of biased “reporting” at its worst. The story is about a German man who was “crowded out of his home” by his gun collection but the photo is of a gun store display in America. What the two have to do with each other is anybody’s guess. But then we find out the man wasn’t crowded out by his gun collection after all. Just a little thought put to the Reuters tale reveals that the whole thing is bunk.
As this Reuters fairy tale begins we find that a man in Berlin, Germany “ran out of space” in his home because his gun collection was so large.
BERLIN (Reuters) – A German man was such an avid collector of weapons and other paraphernalia that he ran out of space at home and had to sleep in a hotel, neighbors said following the 71-year-old’s death… Executors found an arsenal of weaponry and assorted goods at the man’s two-story home in the western city of Aachen…
Wow, it must have been hundreds and hundreds of guns that caused this man to flee from his two-story home to a hotel, right?
Well, not really.
Turns out he only had 71 guns. That would hardly fill up a two-story house!
“There were 71 guns — one for each year of his life,” said police spokesman Paul Kemen. “He also had 41 cases of ammunition and five walking sticks fitted with retractable blades.”
Wait a minute. 71 guns filled up his whole two-story house? Now, it isn’t until the fourth paragraph that we find out it wasn’t all those guns that forced him out of his home. Apparently the man was a pack rat and “collected everything.”
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