More television bias against guns. You won’t see an entertainment television show that has a victim successfully using a gun defensively, and the latest episode of Blue Bloods is no different (Season 11, Episode 8, March 5, 2021). In that episode, a jewelry store owner tries to use a gun to stop a gang from robbing his store, and one of the robbers fatally shoots the store owner.…
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CBS has been working closely with gun control groups to bias people’s views on gun ownership. In this episode of Magnum PI (Season 3, Episode 10, March 5, 2021), an Army ranger on leave obtains a gun illegally an attempts suicide. Somehow the claim is that if only the gun dealer hadn’t sold the gun illegally, he supposedly wouldn’t have been able to attempt suicide.…
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In this episode of CBS’s SWAT (S4 E9 Feb 17 2021), the team is morning the death of one of their members from an “armor piercing round” fired by a white supremacist. They also discover that the white supremacists are in training for another mass public shooting. Of course, the white supremacists are training with machine guns.…
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CBS’s NCIS LA (S12 E10, February 14, 2021) has the left wing activists changing their plans for peaceful demonstrations against police violence because of threatened violence by white supremacists (who also happen to be police officers during their day jobs).
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In an opening scene, Magnum PI has Thomas Magnum dreaming about yet another machine gun attack against him (Season 3, Episode 7, February 5, 2021). Given the number of machine gun attacks against Magnum in the series, this is an entirely reasonable concern on his part.
As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to shoot people.…
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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 thought that one of the people she knew would steal it, and Marty Deeks (played by Eric Christian Olsen) says in exasperation: “We never do.”…
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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 AR-15s.” The gun then fires like a machine gun.…
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“Ghost guns” are homemade guns. It is already illegal for people 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 sections of pipe and a nail. Requiring background checks on all parts of guns has been one of the goals of Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown.…
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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 greatly exaggerates the dangers of guns in the home.…
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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 have a gun for safety, but the gun will be used for bad purposes and they should be afraid of guns in the home even if they are locked in a safe.…
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