You will search in vain for civilians successfully using guns in self-defense in entertainment television shows. When civilians use guns defensively, something always goes wrong. Either they die using the gun, accidentally shoot the wrong person, or they get in the...
In this episode of CBS's SWAT (S4 E9 Feb 17 2021), are dealing with a neo-Nazi, white supremacist gang that has just murdered one of their officers using "armor-piercing" bullets and they are obviously practicing to engage in yet another mass public shooting. But,...
The fictional Natasha Romanoff, AKA the Black Widow, plays one of the best spies and assassins in the world. She is always carrying two handguns on her. Possibly it is a Disney, but the new Disney Marvel series "What If . . . " has Romanoff declaring that...
On NBC’s Chicago PD (S9 E4 October 13, 2021), a nine-year-old boy breaks into a man's garage. When asked if a homeowner has locked up his rifles, the man informs Hank Voight (played by actor Jason Beghe), who heads up the special Chicago police unit, that he didn't...
As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. In real life, criminals generally use machine guns so rarely that a 2016 survey of prison...
As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. In real life, criminals generally use machine guns so rarely that a 2016 survey of prison...
ABC's The Rookie wants to demonize AR-15s and the ammunition that they use. So if they aren't going after AR-15s civilians own as machine guns, they are claiming that AR-15s are supposedly the favorite gun for snipers (Season 4, Episode 3, October 10, 2021). But as...
A new Ryan Reynolds movie, Free Guy, has it dig about gun violence in the United States. Guy (Ryan Reynolds): Milley, how many times a day are the banks robbed in your world? Molotov Girl (Jodie Comer): Hardly ever, Guy. Guy: What about corpses, Milley? Do you see a...
CBS put out all sorts of misinformation on crime and policing so it is useful to point out once in a while when they put police in a positive light (including many episodes of Blue Bloods: here, here, here, and here). In this episode of Blue Bloods (S12 E1, October 1,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWX61-k1dC4 CBS' FBI: Most Wanted (S3 E2, Sept 28, 2021) has a Trump supporter engage in a mass public shooting to try to cover up his role in the January 6th Capitol "Insurrection." The show has a beautiful young woman was the...
CBS' "FBI: Most Wanted" (S3 E2, September 28, 2021) has an episode where it paints those who believe that the election was stolen as dangerous fanatics. The show provides completely made up clips of violence at the US Capitol on January 6th (why not use the real...
As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. In real life, criminals generally use machine guns so rarely that a 2016 survey of...