Just Michael Moore doing Michael Moore stuff on twitter
Flint, Michigan’s favorite local hero turned filmmaker, Michael Moore, has spent a lot of time dropping truth bombs on the twitter-verse this week. Or some kinda bomb anyway.
Starting Tuesday, the filmmaker behind Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko and others, has been hitting social media with firearms knowledge in the wake of the tragic terror attack that left 50 dead (counting the terrorist) in Orlando, Florida this week.
There’s this
Ammo used in AR-15/M-16 is banned by Geneva Convention. It enters the body, spins & explodes. Show the crime scene photos & the NRA is over.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) June 15, 2016
To which we should point out this white paper from the Department of the Army and this more informal assessment.
Moore followed it up with this
Please stop calling the assault rifle used in Orlando&Newtown the”AR-15″. It is the M-16 weapon we used in Vietnam, modified 4 civilian use.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) June 15, 2016
To which we have to drop the two ads below, both of which came out before the military adopted the AR-15 as the M-16, which kinda clearly show which came first:
Then Moore dropped this:
With the leader of Labour Party in the UK, Jeremy Corbyn. We had 32,000 gun deaths last year. The U.K. had 32. pic.twitter.com/ILgOkU4Eui
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) June 16, 2016
To which we have the Office for National Statistics data for England and Wales alone (not including Scotland and Northern Ireland) for the year ending Dec.31 2015 that show 5,122 firearms crimes and 181 homicides but do not isolate the number of gun homicides nor the number of gun suicides or accidents.
And Moore put this out:
Any member of Congress who hasn't announced support for a bill to ban all assault weapons by Friday should be removed from Congress.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) June 15, 2016
And this:
Any guy who had shop class in high school can change a semi-automatic gun 2 fully automatic in 5min. 4 million “AR-15″/M-16 guns in US homes
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) June 15, 2016
And we just can’t.
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