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media bias on guns
Media Bias on Guns: CBS’ Elementary claiming that gun buybacks always reduce gun deaths
"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"...
Media Bias on Guns: ABC’s “The Bold Type” uses all the typical gun control rhetoric and tries to let young women know they will alienate their friends
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...
Media Bias on Guns: ABC’s Quantico: Obligatory “I hate guns”
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...
More TV bias on Guns: History Channel’s Seal Team Six: Despite terrorist threats to family, Seal team member tries to convince his wife that she is safer without a gun
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...
At Townhall.com: “How Entertainment Shows have become Vehicles for Gun Control Propaganda”
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...
TV bias on guns: CBS’s Ransom: Gun fails to protect family and puts children in danger
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...
TV bias on guns: NBC’s Reverie: Main character says “I hate guns,” always emphasizing danger of guns
Media bias on guns takes many forms. Here is an all too typical example where a character simply comes out and says: "I hate guns." NBC's Reverie has had three episodes so far. A common theme through the three shows has been that Mara Kint (played by the very...
At The Hill newspaper: Waffle House shooting illustrates the danger posed by gun-free zones
Dr. John Lott's newest article at The Hill newspaper starts this way: Another mass public shooting in another gun-free zone, and yet again the media ignores it. Right at the front of the Waffle House restaurant in Antioch, Tennessee was a sign prohibiting firearms....
More Censorship of our research by Twitter
We have previously run into trouble with Twitter censoring our activity. Gavin McGinnis recently posted a Tweet linking to some of our research correcting false statements made by Vox.com on guns. But Twitter provided the following warning: So what does "sensitive...
TV Bias on Guns: ABC’s The Crossing with young boy saying “I don’t like guns”
Media bias on guns takes many forms. Here is an all too typical example where a character simply comes out and says: "I don't like guns." Here the sheriff's young son is talking to a deputy who jokingly says that the boy could one day be sheriff. When the boy says "I...
NBC’s Taken tries to convince viewers that gun-free zones are fine, that criminals will obey them
NBC seems to have given out orders to its TV shows to include some anti-gun/pro-gun control mention in them. In this episode of Taken, the show tries to briefly and subtly convey to viewers that gun-free zones work because the criminals won't disobey the bans. Does...












