Today’s post is a short rant. Whats really setting me off is fools that accept whatever they are told. The latest thing going around is the NRA small arms treaty. I’ve seen people all over Facebook and YouTube bitching about this. Even a few Youtubers that I respect put out videos on fighting this treaty to take our guns away. I’m not just going to shoot down this rumor but the whole mentality.
I started seeing this thing pop up on Facebook. When your friends with a lot of survivalist and gun enthusiasts something about guns being takes away spreads fast. So seeing all this ranting and raving I did what i always do. I Googled it. One of the very top results was from Snopes ,which is an internet urban legend/ rumor directory. Anytime I see Snopes in the top results I dismiss it right there. Snopes does indeed disprove this current rumor by the way.
The more important issue is people accepting whatever they see without even doing a two second Google search. Facebook is pretty rampant with this B.S. Just a few weeks ago I had a friend share an article stating that if you are being robbed at an ATM put your pin in reversed. It said that reversing your pin it would still give the cash but alert the police. This immediately hit me as sounding fishy. If this were true It would make sense for it to be common knowledge. Second not all numbers can even be reversed. What if your pin was 1111 or many other combination that don’t have a backwards version. A quick search of Snopes showed it to be false. This friend has a tendency of doing that often. People just “ASSUME” that everything must be true.
I promote a much more realist view. I assume everything I hear is bull shit unless I can find proof otherwise. If it can pass the Google and Snopes test I put an amount of credibility in it. So I urge you next time you hear something fact check it first before helping spread the misinformation.
I have to give some praise to the Skillsandgear crew for immediately doing just that and calling B.S on it. Have you had friends do this crap and believe everything? Do you do this? Let me know in the comments. Trust me I pass the Snopes Test
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