The Media Doesn’t Even Realize How Ridiculous Their Experts Sound

I had to write about this:

NY gunman fired 98 shots in about a minute, police chief says

quote:

• Story Highlights
• Man who killed 13 at immigrant center described as "accomplished marksman"
• 87 shots fired from 9 mm pistol and 11 from .45-caliber handgun, chief says
• Investigators believe victims died almost instantly, he says
• Shooter wore restricted body armor; police investigating how he got it

Now let’s evaluate what the media just said. The shooter was an “accomplished marksman” who fired 98 rounds and only thirteen people died. Gun Shy in no way is trying to trivialize the thirteen innocent victims who lost their lives, but with the ratio of dead versus the rounds expended, this man would hardly qualify as an “accomplished marksman”.

Here is another quote:

Wong was an "accomplished marksman" who frequented a shooting range in Binghamton, the chief said, and he bragged to others that he had fired more than 10,000 rounds.

If he fired 10,000 rounds practicing, and was only able to hit thirteen people with a fatal round after firing almost one hundred rounds, then he should have given up shooting a long time ago, because he wasted a whole lot of money "training". According to media sources, 41 people survived the rampage. He could have killed more people by driving his car through the front of the building into the crowd. He was about as much of an "accomplished marksman" as the media reporting this story are "accomplished writers" when it comes to firearms topics. This is a fine example of the media doing its usual sensational babbling act.