In a series of scenes that could have been written by Michael Bloomberg, The Rookie tries making the case for gun buybacks and gun registration (S1, E11). The officers in this scene tell people that turning in their guns to police during the buyback will make the city...
Bloomberg's Everytown former Research Director, Ted Alcorn, is now covering public health & safety reporting, obviously including gun control issues, for the New York Times. Does the New York Times think that hiring an activist like this helps with people's...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Daily Caller on the biased media coverage about President Trump's comments after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. The piece starts this way: The media and Democrats were apoplectic about President Trump’s comments after the...
CBS' Bull (Season 3, episode 2) is about a woman who murdered a man who killed her child. According to the show, the woman who fatally shot this man found it the "easiest thing in the world" to legally buy a handgun in New York City. First, one has to get a NYC...
The gap between what audiences think of a movie and what top movie critics think of a movie has rarely been larger than for Jennifer Garner's "Peppermint," except for notably Bruce Willis' recent "Death Wish." While only 13% of all critics (and 14% of top movie...
Our attempts this week to put up ads on Facebook produced some disturbing results. Facebook treated a news link from Fox News and a link to our website very differently, even though both contained the same information. We have previously been prevented many times from...
"Sherlock Holmes" on CBS Elementary explains that gun buyback programs "reduce the number of firearm fatalities everywhere they have been attempted." In fact, the opposite is true. Here is a quote from the National Academies of Sciences report "Firearms and Violence"...
ABC's "The Bold Type" is about young women working at fictitious Scarlet magazine in New York City (think Cosmopolitan). Sutton Brady (Meghann Fahy) risks alienating her friends by owning a gun. When roommate Jane Sloan (Katie Stevens) finds out, she confronts Sutton...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJYJGNTihIM A lot of TV characters these days are saying how much they hate guns. It is hard to think of any other item that they so regularly deride. We previously pointed to ABC’s The Crossing, when the Sheriff's son says, “I don’t...
Jackie Ortiz (played by Nadine Velazquez), the wife of a Seal Team Six member, asks her husband, Ricky Ortiz (played by Juan-Pablo Raba) to teach her how to use a handgun for self-defense after his family was threatened by Islamist militants. She explains that she is...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall.com on the continuing bias in entertainment television. The piece starts this way: All of the major television networks use their primetime entertainment shows to push a pro-gun control agenda. Liberal television...
Media bias on guns takes many forms. In just 34 seconds, this segment from CBS' Ransom tries making the case that owning a gun didn't provide protection against attackers but still puts their children in danger (Season 2, Episode 11, June 23, 2018). The wife is also...