On Netflix's police drama Unit 42, a female police officer is reticent to go into after a criminal because she doesn't want to take her gun with her. Female officer: Aren’t we waiting for the tactical unit? Male officer: I am surprised you don’t want to go in solo....
The Shield has a segment where a young girl turns in her family's gun without the knowledge of their knowledge. Regarding the gun, she tells the police officers: "I don't like it." The segment also plays on parents fears because this young girl was able to get a hold...
A Shield agent, Melinda May (played by Ming-Na Wen), is asked by a villain whether she doesn't have a gun because she also doesn't like guns. May responds that she has never needed them in fighting bad guys. Examples from television where the characters say that they...
The video here shows a very small part of a segment from Doctor Who, which shows how badly things go wrong when you use guns to try to neutralize deadly threats. Here is a paragraph from a review in IndieWire which briefly summarizes the whole segment (copyright...
TV shows frequently have characters insisting that they don't like guns. At the beginning of the first episode on CBS's Elementary in Season 7, one of the main characters makes a similar comment. Joan Watson (played by Lucy Liu): "Just because I am an American doesn't...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece on mass public shootings that have been stopped by concealed handgun permit holders. The piece starts this way: Did you hear about this case? A man went into a dentist’s office, killed a woman, and took aim at others before being wounded...
Chicago PD goes to a gun show in neighboring Wisconsin to find someone who is making "Cop Killer Machine Guns." The machine guns are said to be "untraceable" and made by an underground machine shop. The notion that criminals readily obtain guns at gun shows is...
On CBS's FBI, a seventeen-year-old steals his father's gun from a locked gun safe at home and attempts a mass public shooting. The message is parents should be afraid of guns in the home even if they are locked in a safe. Others would support banning guns in the home....
This episode of the Rookie makes it look as if civilians who use guns to defend themselves and their families as dangerous and bigoted (S1, E11). This is not the first time this show has attacked private gun ownership (e.g., see here). For other examples of media bias...
After two gays are injured in a hit-and-run car attack, CBS’ SWAT (Season 2, episode 16) shows another gay take a right-wing radio show host and his staff hostage because the radio show host has been very hostile to gays. The hostage taker threatens to kill the host...
CBS' Bull (Season 3, episode 12) is about a man in witness protection who has been murdered. The government is being sued for not properly protecting the man, and their initial defense is that the murder had nothing to do with him being in witness protection. The wife...
Rep. Lucy McBath (D-GA) pushes gun background checks on private transfers because “We Could Have Parkland at Any Time,” but there is not 1 mass public shooting this century that would have been stopped by this law. So why do gun controllers keep pushing it as a...