As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. The first two episode of NBC’s Law & Order: Organized Crime (Season 1, Episodes 1 & 2, April 1 and 8, 2021) has machine guns being used in an attempted assassination of a police officer and then in stealing Coronavirus vaccines.…
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As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. This episode of NBC’s Chicago PD (Season 8, Episode 7, February 17, 2021) has machine guns being used four times during this show. They also make a big deal multiple times noting that these guns fire the dreaded .223 caliber bullet, with no mention that these are small caliber rounds, rounds that are even allowed to hunt deer in most states because they are more likely to wound than kill the deer.…
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In this episode of CBS’s SWAT (S4 E9 Feb 17 2021), the team is morning the death of one of their members from an “armor piercing round” fired by a white supremacist. They also discover that the white supremacists are in training for another mass public shooting. Of course, the white supremacists are training with machine guns.…
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As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. This episode of NBC’s Blacklist (Season 8, Episode 1, November 13, 2020) starts off with a machine gun being used to break a federal witness out of federal protection.…
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Dr. John Lott has a new piece on media bias at Real Clear Politics.
…Last week, the Biden administration promised gun control groups that it will soon roll out a massive push for limits on firearm purchases and other measures. President Biden reiterated that promise on Sunday. And the television networks aren’t waiting to lay the groundwork for this effort.
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In an opening scene, Magnum PI has Thomas Magnum dreaming about yet another machine gun attack against him (Season 3, Episode 7, February 5, 2021). Given the number of machine gun attacks against Magnum in the series, this is an entirely reasonable concern on his part.
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.…
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As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. This episode of CBS’s NCIS LA (Season 12, Episode 8, January 10, 2021) has an agent warn: “those are AR-15s.” The gun then fires like a machine gun.…
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Does CBS think that all mass public shooters, indeed all criminals, use machine guns? CBS’s SWAT (S4 E8 January 27, 2021) once again has machine guns used in a mass public shooting. And once again the people doing the mass public shooting are “right-wing,” white supremacists, but that is not even remotely close to being the case (see here and here).…
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Does CBS think that all mass public shooters, indeed all criminals, use machine guns? CBS’s FBI Most Wanted (S2 E5 Jan 26, 2021) once again has a machine gun used in a mass public shooting. The weapon is referred to in the show as “an assault weapon.” Lots of discussions about the “New Patriots trying to start a race war.”…
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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 relates a conversation that he had with his wife about her concerns that the US is more violent than Mexico.…
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