So its legal for 17 yr olds to open carry AR-15s in Wisconsin ?!

[janterry]

6. The problem, imo, are all the pundits screaming about the case

If they reported on the facts, we'd be left with the conclusion that laws need to change. Instead, people are making hyperbolic claims about the judge, the judicial system, and what happened. There were STILL reports that black men were killed, following the verdict (That was the headline of The Independent - they have since corrected that)

Joe Scarborough of MSNBC on Friday:

“Here we have a 17-year-old kid, underage, said he bought an AR-15 because he thought it was cool. He drove across state -- had his mother drive him across state lines—he appointed himself a militia member, he goes around and he ends up unloading, what, sixty rounds?”

PBS on their newshour got things wrong:
Capehart on PBS references "a teenager with an illegal gun [false] (among other exaggerations)

Were the men even there to protest (the ones KR shot?)
Rosenbaum (his girlfriend testified under oath - he was not a protester.

Grosskreutz (as he testified himself) was not a protester.

Huber - maybe a protester.

Look, the laws should change. But until reporters can identify the problem - people are just going to jump up and down and blame everyone but the law. The law needs to change. This should never happen again. People died.

In the meantime, I'm disgusted at the state of journalism.