{"id":417,"date":"2013-03-03T08:37:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T08:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kittyblog.asinglelion.com\/?p=417"},"modified":"2013-03-06T07:47:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T07:47:38","slug":"hello-kitty-gun-used-to-spread-gun-story-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Hello Kitty Gun Used to Spread Gun Story Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey media do not pin tragedy on Hello Kitty<\/p>\n<p>From my regular blog<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/ireport.cnn.com\/docs\/DOC-928710\">CNN I report<\/a> \u00a0reports \u201d \u201cToy \u201cHello Kitty\u201dAR-15, results in a 3 year old child\u2019s death\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The problem is the story is a lie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn an article dated February 10, 2013 in the Houston Chronicle, states in an instance this month regarding the attached picture of a \u201cHello Kitty\u201d AR-15 toy Assault Rifle was mistaken for the real thing, as a result, there was a shooting death of a 3 year old child in Greenville, SC.It\u2019s this I-Reporters opinion that this kind of manufacturing of a toy AR-15 crosses the line. Something like this should not be happening, but yet it did. These type of manufacturers should be ashamed of themselves for making such a toy weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a popup the story refers to a Greenville story of a three why killed by a gun by his sister who found a pink handgun gun unsecured in her grandmas home not a Hello Kitty AR-15 .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2013302040072&amp;nclick_check=1\">http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2013302040072&amp;nclick_check=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While sad and tragic, Houston Chronicle had pick up the story for its hit piece on gun ownership Marketing assault: Selling women on guns the original post shows a Pink Hello Kitty AR-15 with the caption \u201cIn one instance, a weapon like this \u2018Hello Kitty\u2019 AR-15 assault rifle was mistaken for a toy, which resulted in a death.\u201d \u00a0This story was picked up by cnn.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Chronicle story chock full logical fallacies and a propaganda piece for the anti gun crowd. The owner of the Hello Kitty AR-15, David Christian, chimes in, calling Houston Chronicle \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0on the mat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pink Hello Kitty rifle pictured above is NOT anything like the firearm that was involved in the referenced accidental shooting. I know for a fact because the rifle pictured above belongs to my wife as i built it for her. It is safely in our possession and I am frankly kind of outraged that it it\u2019s image was used to push this inaccurate story!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Caught in their bold faced lie Houston Chronicle changed the story picture<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionspeak.asinglelion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Now-You-see-it.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Now You see it\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lionspeak.asinglelion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Now-You-see-it.jpg\" width=\"645\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a>Now You see it<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionspeak.asinglelion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Now-you-Dont.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Now you Dont\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lionspeak.asinglelion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Now-you-Dont.jpg\" width=\"669\" height=\"463\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now you don\u2019t<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/houston\/article\/Marketing-assault-Selling-women-on-guns-4265594.php\">http:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/houston\/article\/Marketing-assault-Selling-women-on-guns-4265594.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore Sanrio forbids licensing of sharp objects, drugs, guns and hard alcohol and cigarettes. Hello Kitty guns are ether fakes, art installations or custom jobs not retail products. As a huge Hello Kitty fan and support of gun rights I find both offensive that the Houston Chronicle sinks so low to defame both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey media do not pin tragedy on Hello Kitty From my regular blog In a CNN I report \u00a0reports \u201d \u201cToy \u201cHello Kitty\u201dAR-15, results in a 3 year old child\u2019s death\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The problem is the story is a lie. \u201cIn an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/?p=417\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-news-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}