With the Bias in Entertainment TV’s Current Coverage Against Guns, Here is How NBC’s Law & Order Covered Defensive Gun Use in 1993

May 27, 2025 | Media Bias

Television show bias against guns is never-ending. You won’t see an entertainment television show that has a civilian successfully using a gun defensively. Instead, something always seems to go wrong when guns are used defensively (from being fatally shot by the criminal without stopping the crime to getting in the way of police to continually having the gun stolen and use in a crime to it being used in an accidental shooting).

This example from 1993 shows that this media bias wasn’t always the case, with a scene from NBC’s Law & Order showing a successful defensive gun use (Season 4, Episode 4, October 13, 1993). There are a couple of examples in Paramount’s Yellowstone (here and here) (shows done by Taylor Sheridan), and an example from Apple’s Bad Monkey (here, though they had examples on the other side). Two episodes of another show by Taylor Sheridan also have positive mentions of defensive gun use even if it doesn’t show them.

If you watched entertainment television these days, you would never know that people use guns defensively some 2 million times a year. If you want some examples of people successfully using guns to stop crimes, here are some examples. Other examples of people using guns to stop mass public shootings are available here.

Here are videos on Hollywood’s bias against guns.

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