As we have pointed out many times, television police shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to shoot people, that they are massively outgunning police officers who are using only semi-automatic weapons. Some shows claim AR-15s are machine...
Do all criminals in Hawaii have machine guns or at least have buddies who have machine guns? CBS's Hawaii 5-O continues its obsession with criminals using machine guns (Hawaii 5-O S10 E21, March 27, 2020). This show doesn't seem to be able to go an episode without...
TV shows continually illustrate criminals using machine guns. In this story that spans an episode of two separate CBS shows on the FBI, white supremacists kidnap a school bus full of young children using AR-15s (FBI S2 E18 and FBI Most Wanted S1 E9 March 24, 2020)....
This TV show on NBC is hardly unique in illustrating criminals using machine guns, though they are more over the top in referring to the guns that the criminals have as machine guns and military weapons (Chicago PD, S7, E10 January 8, 2020). On TV shows, machine guns...
CBS' "FBI" shows has a case where truck drivers with concealed handguns are murdered by someone stealing their truck. The Crime Prevention Research Center has collected hundreds of cases where people have used permitted handguns to protect themselves, and while the...
On TV shows, machine guns always seem to be the weapons of choice for bad guys when they get in shootouts with police. Some hyperbole is to be expected on television, but the level of exaggeration has become pretty over-the-top. In real life, criminals use machine...
Dr. John Lott and Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) have a new op-ed at the Washington Times. Media bias has a huge impact on the gun control debate. The entire debate would be dramatically different if at least three points about mass public shootings ever got...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1t-XBgOABg Each time Maya Travis (Robin Tunney), who plays the show’s lead, tries to use a gun in self-defense something goes wrong. Previously, in the first episode, she almost shot her boyfriend Riv (Marc Blucas) because she thought...
On TV shows, machine guns always seem to be the weapons of choice for bad guys when they get in shootouts with police. Some hyperbole is to be expected on television, but the level of exaggeration has become pretty over-the-top. In real life, criminals use machine...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJYJGNTihIM A lot of TV characters these days are saying how much they hate guns. It is hard to think of any other item that they so regularly deride. We previously pointed to ABC’s The Crossing, when the Sheriff's son says, “I don’t...
Snopes.com recently fact-checked a post that we first put up in June 2015 and updated on January 7, 2016. This became an issue for them because a story that Fox News' Special Report that had run a couple years ago was getting circulated on Facebook after...
Bias:NBC's Chicago PD. Police tell permit holder, a small businessman, threatened by gang members to leave his gun at home, when he doesn't he is killed. Implies if the man had left his gun at home,he wld still be alive.Yet, a gun is the safest course of action...