This show so pissed me off that I actually re-ran it on Tivo. I made a summary of the show and more importantly I've listed the commercial advertisers on the show. THESE ARE THE FOLKS THAT WE NEED TO WRITE TO. Tell them that they are supporting propaganda and the show was NOT reporting. If they want your business they have to make it known to ABC that we object !
For what it is worth here are my notes of the show. I was going to annotate this but almost every scene and sentence was so off base I thought the better of it. When I quote something, I had re-racked the tape multiple times to verify it is correct.
ABC News 20/20 If I Had A Gun – First Airing Friday April 10, 2009
Diane Sawyer and David Muir are the hosts
Gunshots kill 30K a year
“This is not a debate about the right to own a gun in America.”
Scene of gun fight in store, 14 shots fired.
Scenes of mass shootings.
Diane says police say “think about it” regards using a gun for defense.
Chris Benton and Glen Dorney and Bethlehem PA police dept worked with ABC.
ABC created a test of the ability to defend yourself
Mulhenberg College
6 students chosen
Real Glock with paint bullets.
ABC gave the students training. It was more than what half the states require for someone to carry a concealed weapon
Move to a classroom situation.
Student is told they are the only person to have a gun with which to defend themselves.
“Joey can’t keep his hand off the gun.”
Other people are cops or work for ABC.
The student is wearing a protective helmet and GLOVES.
Joey can’t get out his gun. It’s stuck in his shirt. Or “would the intruder take his gun from him.”
Video of DEA agent shooting himself in leg while teaching kids.
Danielle gets her gun out. Diane says “A weapon alone won’t save you if your body is in the wrong place. She takes a hit to the head.”
BG is hit in the leg.
Brian freezes in his seat.
Chris Benton talks about fine motor skills when jacked up
Diane Sawyer in front of simulator screen. First time no reaction to guy firing gun at her from back of vehicle. “Second time you still can’t get there in time.”
Police train for months… Chris Benton TOO MUCH FOR A NORMAL PERSON WHO ISNT TRAINED.
Chris Lamb most experienced student. Chris takes cover. “EVEN HE FREEZES IN PLACE.”
NO WONDER police stress that you must train.
Training is a perishable skill. Glen Dorney says in 1 or 2 months you lose the skill.
Student says it MAKES YOU MORE SUSEPTABLE TO BEING SHOT.
Back to the store video of Gun fight. “14 shots and none of the shots came close” .
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Every third house has a gun…”what about your neighbors?”
Video of father and son on way to Westfield Mass range then firing an UZI and AK.
Moment later contrasted with “Another young shooter looses control of the gun he is shooting and kills himself”.
“Every other day a child is accidentally shot and killed with a gun.”
911 tapes of AD shootings
Suicidal kid because of shooting his friend.
Evan Toesma (kid who shot his friend on tape) lots of crying. “Was at a friend s house not knowing the AK was loaded.”
“All because he pulled that trigger for fun.”
Little kids on video. Real small kids finding guns among toys.
Just had been given a lesson on gun safety with help from Eddie Eagle (looks like a cop running a tape).
Girls finds her dads gun in the nightstand “and it was fully loaded”
“In the ten years we have seen Virginia Tech and 29,000 children and teens killed by guns”.
Will kids today act differently today?
NJ Firearms Academy Latik Dickerson.
Asks him what he expects in this experiment of high school and college kids hired to help pack for someone moving. Expects they will tell someone when they find a gun in dresser drawer.
Diane says “In every case it starts normal.”
Girl dumped gun into packing box. “IT COULD HAVE GONE OFF!”
Of the 23 students, only 3 asked for help.
Video of Mike (kid who shot friend). Father locked up. “21 states hold parents responsible for unlocked guns in the home.”
Video of him marching in a band. Marched at Obama inauguration. Cut to BHO and Michelle waving.
Muir asks kid “is there something that you hope the President will do about guns and children in America?” Kid says.”keep them away. Lock them all up. That’s what I would do if I were president”.
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Damon Weaver 10 yr old school reporter has question for president. Shows him whispering to Diane “the question”.
Lives in Pahokee Florida. “It has a population of 3,000 and an infinity of guns.”
Video of gang bangers (in Pahokee?)
In the elementary school:
60 percent know someone who was shot
40 percent have witnessed a shooting
Friend Jatavious - father got shot. Kid is crying.
No one arrested for the murder.
Kid reporter goes to the local police. Detective Mike Wallace is in violent crimes unit. Father was shot a couple of times with a shotgun. Det. Says they know who shot the father but witnesses won’t testify. “Gang members scare people”.
Three gang bangers say they didn’t report getting shot to the police.
Adults use jitterbugs (young kids) to buy the guns.
Kid reporter’s older brother Marcus approached by gangs.
Kid reporter says he is telling his story “so people don’t die”.
Segment finishes with the kid reporter saying “President Obama what can you do to help out Pahokee?” That was the question he whispered to Sawyer.
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So many promises after Virgina Tech to “CLEAN UP THE GUNS”
“Is it any harder to buy a gun?”
Omar Samaha, student whose sister was killed at VT.
At Richmond VA gun show
VA Governor urged at the time to close gun show loophole.
Omar is given 1 hour and 5,000 dollars to buy guns at the show.
Outside the show, he bought handgun. “this even before you got into the show !”
Didn’t ask about criminal background.
Cho (shooter at VT) bought gun at gun dealer where background checks ARE required.
“The gun show loophole considered even more glaring.”
Omar carrying a “semi auto assault weapon”.
Guy passing by car which has Omar’s guns in the back. …”wanting to BUY” (like a drug dealer transaction)
BATF says gun shows are a major source of crime guns … “but they have no numbers”.
Muir calls state senator Edwards.
Calls NRA but they decline interview.
Omar says he “wonders what kind of people are making our laws?”
ABC assisted by former ATF agent Jerry Nunziato
Says nothing seller did or Omar did was wrong.
Video of Omar’s sister dancing.
Diane asks Muir what they did with the guns Omar purchased.
“Took them straight to the Richmond police department. We turned them in.”
“Tonight we’ve learned that it’s not only Omar asking for change. The nations mayors are now asking that something be done about the assault weapons, about all the guns.”
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Gun rampages at:
Mall
Nursing home
Unitarian church
“Any lessons to be learned here on self defense and survival?”
Film of JJ Bittenbinder (ex cop who teaches crime awareness classes)
Try to run.
How many times is his going to shoot? 50% of the time. How many times is a shot going to hit? Says something about 12% of the time
Bill Stanton (security expert)
Don’t make panicky moves.
Just do nothing, hide.
Not every one is Rambo.
Diane says cell phone is valuable.
Diane says “Of course guns have been used to run off intruders.”
Glenn Dorsey “you just see the gun”
Police have to train and retrain to see peripheral actions.
In the student experiment they planted another gunman in his peripheral vision.
Jason, “Like our other students he makes mistakes”
Student - range training didn’t prepare him for it.
Couldn’t see if other shooter was BG or GG.
Student Ashley Malik is an instructor in marshal arts.
She fails to take sufficient cover. 15 shots fired.
Benton says “where do you think you’d be now?”
Diane says “Comes within inches of hitting other students”.
“It happens all to often”
Man shot wife. She’s dead.
Hotel clerk shoots just inches from a baby’s head.
“We all know how often police hit innocent bystanders”
“A recap now of how our students did.”
“Half couldn’t get the gun out.”
“Those who did, couldn’t shoot fast enough or accurately enough to save themselves, and there was the constant danger they would shoot a friend or bystander.”
With regard to studies of guns used in defensive situations, Diane says “we could not find one reliable study. And the ones we found were contradictory.”
Muir says “the CDC says over 10 year period, 60 thousand kids and young people have died from a gun.”
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