Did you know guns were used defensively by private citizens much more often than guns were used in crimes? Why hasn't the media covered this?

http://www.hillsdale.edu/newimprimis/default.htm

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Yes, I did because I read his book. Are you just now discovering the bias in the media? Read "Bias" by Bernard Goldberg.

It has long been known that the media is and will be very liberal (something to do with the 1st amendment), and is ran by liberals. There is no such thing as balanced reporting media. It is up to the conservatives or right wingers to filter out the b.s. that the media spins. The media is the ONLY source for about 80% of the people, and with the liberal spin on everything, it is no surprise.

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Perhaps I should be more clear.

This is a thread about how the media is cleverly ignoring a glaring fact about guns. One would assume it's about playing down gun rights in favor of gun control. If you guys think this discussion will inevitably lead to one of media bias, I can move it to that forum. I'll let you make the call on it.

So Frank, what did you think about this guy's book?

Troper, while I agree about the liberal bias, you'd have an argument on your hands in the media forum. Apparently the only thing wrong with the media is FOX news. If we got rid of them, then the world would be a much better place.

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The television news media in the city I live in does news stories involving citizens that have used guns to defend themselves. Usually it is only when the law-abiding citizen has used the firearm resulting in injury or death of the criminal.

By far the news media gives more coverage to crime committed with guns then the prevention of crimes by guns.

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There is no requirement to be in a militia to bear arms!

Didn't mean to let my post run into being media biased based, but it just kinda seemed to flow there, could n't get it to stop.
...and yeah the leftist liberals would love to get rid of the closest thing to fair and balanced reporting..a.k.a. Fox News.

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i see a lot of media bias against guns. Usually bias isnt so blatant. They tend to give more coverage to stories where guns had a hand in the murder, and especially a lot of attention when little kiddies are involved- but i havent seen one story yet written about how some private citizen used a gun to help capture some criminal(though i have seen it mentioned on TV in passing occasionally, this is still given a lot less weight than anti-gun stories).

The media likes to play on our fears and emotions. Perhaps not always because of government conspiracy, but because the sort of stuff keeps people glued to the TV and the media makes more money.

Yeah, I pretty much agree. The gun stories are usually involving violence and make a bigger splash for attracting viewers. Sometimes I think the media isn't necessarily against guns, just that the liberal left uses this instance or this footage to illustrate how "bad" guns are. (bad gun... bad bad gun!)

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This may shock you, but I am against a total ban on guns. Disarming the population is the first step to a dictatorship. Just ask Hitler.
Most of my liberal friends think I am a closet libertarian. Hardly, though I do have more respect for Libertarians than I do Republicans. But yeah Im not a far right winger.....Im just paranoid

I guess you could call me a Libertarian Socialist as Chomsky calls it. Best of both worlds, small government able to still function and provide for the common good, and limits on ownership rites for corporations. The problem with Libertarianism straight up is that the corporations would own EVERYTHING. Not just most of everything like they do today, absolutely everything. And there would be nothing from stopping them from assuming absolute control. So basically, pure socialism brings about a governmental dictatorship, whereas pure libertarianism brings about a corporate dictatorship. In libertarian socialism you have neither. In theory.

Assault weapons are not really necessary. Clinton took them off the streets because they were being used to rob banks and lots of people were being killed. Because of the ban the numbers dropped a good bit. So in my view, if it saves some lives, go ahead and keep it. But if it doesnt do anything, might as well let it expire.

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