This episode of CBS's NCIS LA pushes a common Michael Bloomberg theme on women and guns (Season 12 Episode 10, February 14, 2021). A woman explains to the NCIS LA agents that she has a gun for protection, but the gun was stolen. She says that she never...
As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. This episode of CBS’s NCIS LA (Season 12, Episode 8, January 10, 2021) has an agent warn: “those are...
“Ghost guns” are homemade guns. It is already illegal to sell these guns because they don’t have serial numbers. Guns are pretty simple items to build. You can build a shotgun with a few pipes and a nail. Requiring background checks on all parts of guns has...
On CBS's Magnum PI (S3 E8 February 12 2021), a twelve-year-old steals his father's gun from a bedside table and accidentally shoots his ten-year-old brother. The message is parents should be afraid of guns in the home even if the parent is at home. But this again...
NBC’s Chicago PD has a long history of trying to convince people that they shouldn’t try to use a gun defensively. When gang members threatened a civilian, the police tried to convince him to leave his gun at home (Season 5, Episode 13, 2018). When he doesn’t, it...
On CBS’s FBI Most Wanted (S2 E4 January 19, 2021), a woman steals his father’s gun from a lock box at home and attempts a mass public shooting. The father attempts to justify owning the gun to protect his family, but the message is obvious: parents may think that they...
Does CBS think that all mass public shooters, indeed all criminals, use machine guns? CBS’s SWAT (S4 E8 January 27, 2021) once again has machine guns used in a mass public shooting. And once again the people doing the mass public shooting are "right-wing," white...
Does CBS think that all mass public shooters, indeed all criminals, use machine guns? CBS’s FBI Most Wanted (S2 E5 Jan 26, 2021) once again has a machine gun used in a mass public shooting. The weapon is referred to in the show as “an assault weapon.” Lots of...
This episode of CBS's FBI shows a public shooting at a quinceañera (a celebration of a Latino girl's fifteenth birthday) at a restaurant (S3 E4 Jan 24, 2021). A white supremacist did the shooting. The aggrieved father whose wife and daughter have just been murdered...
CBS's Bull (S5 E6, January 18 2021) has a machine gun used in a mass public shooting were supposedly 38 people were murdered and 200 wounded. The weapon is referred to in the show as "an assault weapon." As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many...
The notion that Mexican drug gangs are getting machine guns from the United States is absurd, but that is the claim in CBS's new show Coyote staring Michael Chiklis. Episode 5 shows an AR-15 as a machine gun and Chiklis is asked to figure out what happened to a...
Headline in Variety: "Gabby Giffords Is Hoping Hollywood Can Help in Her Fight Against Gun Violence." As Giffords explains: Stories are important. Elected officials use them to help get their points across, and for centuries artists have used them to inspire, make us...