Please check your sources, quotes, etc.

[The Heretic]

It seems that several times a week I see some pro-gun quote posted on social media that is incorrectly attributed to an anti-gun activist/politician/et. al.

I also see quotes from founding fathers and other respected figure supporting gun rights - often incorrectly.

Do your homework. Don't blindly paste some quote/meme/etc. - check it out, google it, check snopes, etc.



When you post some fake quote, an urban myth, etc., you hurt your credibility and it reflects on our cause. I hate having to correct people publicly, but it is necessary.

Some say "well, he would have said it" or "it makes the point whether it is true or not". No - no it doesn't. We need to fight lies with the truth, not more lies.

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[etrain16]

Agreed. I've held back posting some great stuff, only to find out before I posted it, that the quote was either misattributed or were just never said at all. And yes, that is frustrating because any potential for a positive message for gun owners ends up being lost when someone finds out that what they think was said, never was said.

 

[joken]

Yea, check with Snopes

 

[PaulB47]

...keeping in mind Snopes ain't exactly unbiased...

But yeah. The easy thing to do is just to drop the quote (or at least a fraction of it) into google or some other search engine. It will become plain soon enough whether it is legitimate or not.

 

[308]

I've always liked that Abe Lincoln quote above. Who would have guessed he knew about the innernets

 

[Sgt Nambu]

Yeah, learn to spel tu!
Looks like a bunch of hillbillies. Just like the antis think we are!
I spell like a 'tarded monkey, but I check it

 

[Fordcragar]

Great message. There is nothing more annoying than reading something and then find out it really isn't true. I've been caught a few times passing out information and when I actually checked it out, find out it was bogus.

 

[Otter]

Too late. I don't trust anything I read on the Internet any more and gun websites are some of the worst. Too many self-appointed experts that shoot one hole groups all day long.

 

[Xaevian]

One-hole groups, one whole group, or groups-of-one holes? Never can tell sometimes with the spelling (on some of those OTHER sites). I think you quoted Abraham Drinkin'!

-edited to add emphasis that I'm not accusing anyone here of poor spelling or being a grammar-nazi.

 

[The Heretic]

I was thinking more about political posts than gun facts - but whatever.

 

[Joe13]

You know my buddy said that he heard from his sisters boyfriends cousin's grandad that revolvers can take Glock mags with an adapter.

 

[slimmer13]

You know my buddy said that he heard from his sisters boyfriends cousin's grandad that revolvers can take Glock mags with an adapter.

It's true

 

[etrain16]

You know my buddy said that he heard from his sisters boyfriends cousin's grandad that revolvers can take Glock mags with an adapter.

It's true

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Hey! You didn't mention that the magazines go in backwards too!!

 

[Stomper]

John Wayne said this once...




or was it Chuck Schumer?

 

[The Heretic]

This is an example - a buddy of mine posted this to FB recently:



Only, she never said this.

Not only do I wish people wouldn't spread these false quotes around, it would be even better if people didn't make them up to start with.

I have to wonder about the people who make them up (or otherwise misattribute or misquote) - are they trying to make use look stupid and like liars? Because they are succeeding.

 

[Stomper]

Wellllll........ I read that one as sarcasm, actually.


Don't make me nuke the place....

 

[eldbillbo]

Now a days with internet any one can call them selves a reporter and people will submit to what ever news that they like to hear weather its wrong or right.

And you can quote me as saying that and because I said it on the internet it must be true.