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 don’t like guns,” the deputy reacts awkwardly.…
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 anyone seriously think that a group of paid, professional killers couldn’t find some way to get a gun into a hospital? …
In Episode 15 of Season 6 (March 22, 2018), Chicago Fire shows scenes where a man’s ammunition is set off by a fire. Bullets shoot everywhere, seriously wounding both the man’s mother and a fireman. (If you don’t mind increasing NBC’s estimated number of people who have watched the show, it can be seen on Hulu here.)
We tried posting about a minute from NBC’s Chicago Fire on YouTube without success. …
In a series of scenes that could have been written by Michael Bloomberg, Designated Survivor keeps making the case for expanded background checks. No intellectual argument or even an emotional argument is provided against the gun control claims, and those opposing the regulations are treated as dishonest. The question to the president played by Kiefer Sutherland takes a question from a woman whose daughter was killed by a former boyfriend who was in prison. …
The Black List showed real bias against guns in the segment titled “The Invisible Hand,” Season 5, episode 13. The show starts off with a group of people accusing a maker of inexpensive guns of being a purveyor of death, that the cheap guns are only designed for use by criminals and that the man making the guns is just in the business to make money off of killing people.…
…Bias:NBC’s Chicago PD. Police tell permit holder, a small businessman, threatened by gang members to leave his gun at home, when he doesn’t he is killed. Implies if the man had left his gun at home,he wld still be alive.Yet, a gun is the safest course of action against a criminal pic.twitter.com/AUk8tm0S7T
— John R Lott Jr.
Here is a very short clip of Hawaii Five-O trying to provide an example of a concealed handgun permit holder representing a danger to others. Other parts of the program show the permit holder as a real jerk and eventually stealing a gun from a police officer and shooting someone.
Despite the impression this show provides, some information on how extremely law-abiding permit holders are is available here and here.…
