The Washington Post probably ran this article because they thought conservatives would be upset about blacks owning and carrying guns. In fact, from the very beginning of Dr. John Lott's research in More Guns, Less Crime, he has argued that the very people who are the...
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More Media Bias: CBS’s Blue Blood TV show has a drug gang using a machine gun against police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL3cXUoLmug As the Crime Prevention Research Center has often pointed out, television crime shows seem to think criminals constantly use machine guns to commit crime. Unfortunately, CBS's Blue Bloods TV show is no different (Season 13,...
TV Media bias: CBS’s S.W.A.T. show illustrates more failed defensive gun uses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLzJOpQPBrg Over the last two decades, you will search in vain for civilians successfully using guns in self-defense in entertainment television shows. When civilians use guns defensively, something always goes wrong. Either they...
More Media Bias: CBS’s True Lies TV show has a German terrorist group using machine guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc84cwJ5zP0 As the Crime Prevention Research Center has often pointed out, television crime shows seem to think criminals constantly use machine guns to commit crime. Unfortunately, CBS's True Lies TV show is no different (Season 1,...
More Media Bias: CBS’s FBI Most Wanted show has an Iranian terrorist organization using machine guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCG295dCC5g As the Crime Prevention Research Center has often pointed out, television crime shows seem to think criminals constantly use machine guns to commit crime. Unfortunately, More Media Bias: CBS's FBI Most Wanted TV show is no...
Even in Montana newspapers explicitly say that they will not run opinion pieces showing that more guns make people safer
"We are not going to run the narrative that more guns equals more safety," The Missoulian, January 31, 2023. While we believe that guns on net do make people safer, that isn’t the point of the piece that the Missoulian turned down. What the article said is much...
Shocking: A NBC TV show with a successful defensive gun use, Magnum PI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVaCJdZril0 Over the last two decades, you will search in vain for civilians successfully using guns in self-defense in entertainment television shows. When civilians use guns defensively, something always goes wrong. Either they die...
More Media Bias: CBS’s S.W.A.T. TV show has trained assassins using machine guns against police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WDl4bdTjso As the Crime Prevention Research Center has often pointed out, television crime shows seem to think criminals constantly use machine guns to commit crime. Unfortunately, CBS's S.W.A.T. TV show is no different (Season 6,...
More Media Bias on Guns: CBS’s Blue Bloods TV show with Robbers firing a machine gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9tomhAIvoY As the Crime Prevention Research Center has often pointed out, television crime shows seem to think criminals constantly use machine guns to commit crime. Unfortunately, CBS's show Blue Bloods is no different (Season 13,...
Media Bias: CBS’s “The Company You Keep” calls Gun Makers the Evil Empire that bribes politicians to get their way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d_R-vs5zB0 As if it isn't enough that entertainment TV shows consistently show the myths that gun control advocates that defensive gun uses always fail, that AR-15s are machine guns, that American criminals are always using machine...
More Media Bias: CBS’s FBI International TV show has an assassin firing a machine gun when cornered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG2LpakEOSE As the Crime Prevention Research Center has often pointed out, television crime shows seem to think criminals constantly use machine guns to commit crime. Unfortunately, CBS's FBI International TV show is no different...
An example of how CBS showed gun ownership in 1963: The Beverly Hillbillies
Given all our coverage of television show bias on guns, we wanted to share this episode of Beverly Hillbillies in 1963. It isn't one that you will see on television anymore. You can see the Crime Prevention Research Center's collection of biased media coverage of guns...










