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. CBS again shows criminals using machine guns. The FBI (E3 S1 Nov 17, 2020) has criminals using...
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TV Bias On Guns: MTV’s Teen Wolf “I Don’t Like Guns”
Media bias on guns takes many forms. Here is an all too typical example where a character comes out and says: “I don’t like guns.” In an episode titled "The Benefactor," MTV's Teen Wolf has an episode where they first show a man almost accidentally shooting his son...
At the Washington Times: How the liberal media, with Michael Bloomberg’s help, are biased against guns
Dr. John Lott has a piece at the Washington Times on how Michael Bloomberg biases the discussion about guns. Would Scientific American ever pay an NRA employee to write news articles about gun control? Never. But they and many other media outlets have no problem using...
At Real Clear Politics: Myths the Media Perpetuate About Gun Control
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Real Clear Politics. The push to disarm Americans, such as Pamela and Mark McCloskey of St. Louis, stems from the belief that disarming the public will make us safer. But those beliefs arise from myths perpetrated by the media. The...
Another Television Show With Criminals Using Machine Guns to Outgun Police: CBS’s SWAT
As we have pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to shoot people and outgun police. CBS again shows criminals using machine guns. SWAT (S3 E21 May 20, 2020) has a number of criminals using...
CBS television show criticizes non-law enforcement with guns as a danger to themselves and others
CBS's SWAT depicts bounty hunters as idiots who continuously get in the way of the police doing their job and endangering the lives of police and others. Bounty hunters are described as relics of a long-ago past, who might have had a role at one time, but no longer....
Another Television Show with Criminals Using Machine Guns: NBC’s The Blacklist
As we have pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to shoot people. NBC again shows criminals using machine guns. The Blacklist (S7 E18 May 8, 2020) has criminals using machine guns in an attempt...
Television shows continued obsession with criminals using machine guns, Two Episodes of The Blacklist
As we have pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to shoot people. NBC again shows criminals using machine guns. The Blacklist (S7 E16 April 24, 2020) has a slightly different twist with...
Do all Chicago Criminals have machine guns?: You would think so if you watch NBC’s Chicago PD
As we have pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to shoot people. NBC again shows criminals using machine guns. Chicago PD (S7 E20 April 15, 2020) has criminals stealing machine guns from...
CBS’ shows continued obsession with machine guns: Magnum PI and Blue Bloods
As we have pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to shoot people. Two different CBS shows on Friday, May 1st, 2020 again discuss criminals using machine guns. Magnum PI (S2 E18) has criminals...
At Townhall: The Blacklist Misinformation on Guns
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall on media bias. These days, television entertainment shows depict gun owners either as buffoons or criminals. They never portray regular civilians using guns to save lives, and instead like to show firearms falling into the...
NBC’s The Blacklist goes on a binge of reciting one gun control myth after another
A robber shoots a young woman in a hold-up, and the gun got to him through a straw purchase (The Blacklist, Season 7, E 15, April 17, 2020). The shooting is particularly tragic because the young woman has literally just learned that she has gotten admitted to...