As we have pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to shoot people. NBC again shows criminals using machine guns. Chicago PD (S7 E20 April 15 2020) has criminals stealing machine guns from Indiana — with its lax gun laws — and bringing them into Chicago to commit crime.…
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Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall on media bias.
…These days, television entertainment shows depict gun owners either as buffoons or criminals. They never portray regular civilians using guns to save lives, and instead like to show firearms falling into the wrong hands.
On Friday’s episode of “The Blacklist,” a robber fatally shoots a young woman working at a convenience store.
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A robber shoots a young woman in a hold-up, and the gun got to him through a straw purchase (The Blacklist, Season 7, E 15, April 17, 2020). The shooting is particularly tragic because the young woman has literally just learned that she has gotten admitted to the college of her dreams.…
As we have pointed out many times, television police shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to shoot people, that they are massively outgunning police officers who are using only semi-automatic weapons. Some shows claim AR-15s are machine guns. But this episode on NBC’s Chicago PD implies that semi-automatic handguns are machine guns (Season 7, Episode 17, March 18, 2020).…
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Do all criminals in Hawaii have machine guns or at least have buddies who have machine guns? CBS’s Hawaii 5-O continues its obsession with criminals using machine guns (Hawaii 5-O S10 E21, March 27, 2020). This show doesn’t seem to be able to go an episode without criminals using full automatic firearms.…
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TV shows continually illustrate criminals using machine guns. In this story that spans an episode of two separate CBS shows on the FBI, white supremacists kidnap a school bus full of young children using AR-15s (FBI S2 E18 and FBI Most Wanted S1 E9 March 24 2020). The show explicitly states that these are the types of guns used by the military.…
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TV shows continually illustrate criminals using machine guns, with police officers in these episodes completely outgunned by multiple criminals with machine guns (Chicago PD S7 E16, March 4, 2020; Hawaii Five-O, Season 10, Episode 20, March 13, 2020).
On TV shows, machine guns always seem to be the weapons of choice for bad guys when they get in shootouts with police.…
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TV shows continually illustrate criminals using machine guns, with police officers in this episode completely outgunned by multiple criminals with machine guns (Hawaii Five-O, Season 10, Episode 18, February 28, 2020).
On TV shows, machine guns always seem to be the weapons of choice for bad guys when they get in shootouts with police.…
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This TV show on NBC is hardly unique in illustrating criminals using machine guns, though they are a more over the top in referring to the guns that the criminals have as machine guns and military weapons (Chicago PD, S7, E10 January 8, 2020).
On TV shows, machine guns always seem to be the weapons of choice for bad guys when they get in shootouts with police.…
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CBS’ “FBI” shows has a case where truck drivers with concealed handguns are murdered by someone stealing their truck. The Crime Prevention Research Center has collected hundreds of cases where people have used permitted handguns to protect themselves, and while the outcome that CBS shows is possible, this outcome virtually never happens.…
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