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Entertainment TV Shows Keep Pushing Lies About Guns
Townhall ^ | 24 May, 2021 | John Lott

Posted on 06/01/2021 6:11:10 AM PDT by marktwain

Last Friday, anti-Semitic thugs attacked a Jewish family, yelling “Free Palestine!,” “Die Jew!” “F– you Jew,” and “I’m gonna rape your wife.” Fortunately, an armed driver was able to stand between the attackers and the family. You may not hear about many of these stories, but they occur all the time. And there are dozens of cases in recent years where concealed handgun permit holders have stopped what police say would have been mass public shootings. Those would make gripping stories.

But don’t ever expect to see gripping stories like this on entertainment television. For years network television, ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox, refuse to show even a single successful defensive gun use by a civilian. You would surely never know that people successfully use guns defensively some 2 million times a year. 

Instead, defensive gun use is shown to always goes wrong. Either the citizen ends up being murdered by the criminal without hurting any of the criminals, accidentally shoots a loved one, or is a danger to themselves and the police. And this bias has been going on for years across all the networks.

Just take some examples so far this year.

NBC’s Chicago PD, Season 8, Episode 14, May 12, 2021: A homeowner tries to use a gun defensively to stop a home robbery and ends up being shot by one of the robbers.

In another episode of that show (Episode 4, January 27, 2021), a woman tries using a gun to stop an abusive boyfriend from hurting her, but he takes the gun from her and beats her. The boyfriend then uses the gun that he stole from her to murder a police officer. There is no notion that if a much physically stronger

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To: marktwain

Interesting about Heinlein. I hadn’t heard that before


21 posted on 06/01/2021 8:02:25 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Hiddigeigei

I missed being robbed and probably beaten by a bunch of guys. I had a 22 LR revolver. But no one wanted to be the first person shot....so I walked away. While facing them until I reached my car.

No reports ever filed.


22 posted on 06/01/2021 8:35:20 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: marktwain

The one thing that Hollywierd gets right is that bad guys con’t care about the law and will always get guns when they want them.


23 posted on 06/01/2021 8:49:32 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
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To: marktwain
"A decent, well made pistol."
I don't have the Mollina anymore (miss it), but my recently departed bother left me a Colt National Match Gold Cup 1911. I carry a revolver by preference that I learned how to shoot double action for speeds sake. I don’t trust safeties that much.
24 posted on 06/01/2021 9:43:10 AM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Hiddigeigei

Entertainment TV

Propaganda TV Shows Keep Pushing Lies About Guns

Remember accuracy in reporting.


25 posted on 06/01/2021 9:46:47 AM PDT by JayAr36 (My disgust with government is complete.)
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To: marktwain

There are some people who simply cannot separate fantasy from reality. Some are right here on FR, who read fantasy which was imagined in someone’s mind and convert the fantasy into reality.

Case in point: The show “Law and Order” which proclaimed, “Ripped from the headlines”. However, the storyline NEVER followed the truth. It was fantasy. Only the headline was ‘ripped trom the headlines’. People here claimed that it was “real”. Nothing could convince them that the fantasy was fantasy,


26 posted on 06/01/2021 9:47:58 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Peanut Butter doesn't offset shootings, killings, drugs, riots, and lootings and burnings by BLM.)
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To: marktwain

The tv shows always have people being shot by guns for decades. The movies are no different. The socialists are the ones that want the guns and not you to have them to defend against them!


27 posted on 06/01/2021 10:53:05 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: Hiddigeigei

Colt match is
One of my
Dream pistols,
Ahhhhh!


28 posted on 06/01/2021 11:00:18 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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To: MileHi
And all the ARs are full auto...

And a glock semi auto always takes them out. Not to be argumentative but those guys fire off a pickup load of ammo and rarely hit anyone.

29 posted on 06/01/2021 11:08:26 AM PDT by itsahoot (Many Republicans a secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Bongino says.)
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To: marktwain

GOD created MEN and WOMEN; but it was actually COLONEL COLT who made them EQUAL


30 posted on 06/01/2021 5:26:03 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Jack Lord PLAYED a tough cop on Hawaii Five-O, in actuality he was just another HOLLWEIRD PUSSY reading words other people wrote!


31 posted on 06/01/2021 5:29:36 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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