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...
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. This episode of CBS's SWAT has an AR-15 used as both a sniper rifle to shoot firefighters and a...
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. Unlike the original Magnum PI show from the 1980s, the new reboot fo the series again shows...
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. Magnum PI (S3 E2 Dec 11 2020) has criminals using...
With all the discussion about having another assault weapon ban, from 1998 Through June 2019, only 13% of mass public shootings are done solely with any type of rifle. Twenty-eight percent involve only a rifle or a rifle in combination with a handgun and/or a...
Do you remember when the 1994 Federal Assault weapon banned semi-automatic rifles with two of six different features? One of those six was a grenade launcher attached to the gun. Presumably, few guns were banned because they had that feature. While there are...
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...
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...
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...