{"id":105263,"date":"2024-10-28T17:50:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T22:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=105263"},"modified":"2024-10-28T17:50:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T22:50:15","slug":"105263","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=105263","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

What the Media Won\u2019t Tell You About Guns in This Election<\/a><\/p>\n

Undoubtedly, most Americans are aware of the mainstream media\u2019s bias when it comes to reporting the \u201cfacts.\u201d A recent\u00a0Gallup Poll<\/a>\u00a0revealed that only 31% of Americans say they have a \u201cgreat deal\u201d or \u201cfair amount\u201d of confidence in the media to report the news \u201cfully, accurately and fairly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two topics where the mainstream media is most biased are private gun ownership and the upcoming presidential election. Combine skewed gun and election coverage, and you get media reporting only what they want you to know regarding firearms and your rights.<\/p>\n

So, here are a bunch of things they don\u2019t want you to know.<\/p>\n

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  1. Kamala Harris Doesn\u2019t Believe You Have a Right to Keep and Bear Arms<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Much of the media touts Harris\u2019 gun ownership as proof that she doesn\u2019t want to ban guns, but, the thing is, she has always been for banning guns.<\/p>\n

    The mainstream media won\u2019t tell you, for example, about a very important 2008 U.S. Supreme Court decision,\u00a0District of Columbia v. Heller<\/em>, that was a pivotal point in history for the right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n

    The case concerned a challenge to the Washington, D.C., ban on handgun ownership. In overruling the ban, the Court clarified that the Second Amendment protects an\u00a0individual<\/em>\u00a0right to keep and bear arms for lawful purposes, including self-defense.<\/p>\n

    As San Francisco\u2019s district attorney at the time, Kamala Harris was fighting for a complete ban on handgun ownership in that city. At the same time, she supported the D.C. handgun ban.<\/p>\n

    Harris endorsed an amicus brief of district attorneys in support of the District of Columbia; a brief that argued against the individual right to own a firearm. Also, a press release from Harris\u2019 office\u00a0bragged<\/a>\u00a0that she was \u201cleading\u201d the effort to support unconstitutional handgun bans.<\/p>\n

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    1. Harris Wants to Destroy the Firearm Industry<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      The media likes to report that Harris is in favor of doing away with what she calls \u201cblanket immunity\u201d for gun manufacturers and sellers; however, they won\u2019t tell you that such blanket immunity doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

      This is in reference to the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), passed in 2005. It protects firearm manufacturers and dealers from being held liable when crimes are committed using the products they legally made or lawfully sold. What Harris and the media won\u2019t tell you is that both gun manufacturers and dealers can still be held liable for damages resulting from defective products, breach of contract, criminal misconduct and other actions for which they are directly responsible.<\/p>\n

      Harris has repeatedly called for the repeal of the law, which would cripple, if not outright destroy, the firearm industry.<\/p>\n

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      1. Harris Wants to Bring Gun Control to the States<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        One of the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s crowning \u201cachievements\u201d was the\u00a0establishment<\/a>\u00a0of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention to use Americans\u2019 own tax dollars to assault their Second Amendment-protected rights. Biden appointed Harris to head up this office, which she immediately filled with anti-gun activists.<\/p>\n

        In the waning days of 2023, Harris hosted nearly 100 Democrat lawmakers from 39 states to encourage them to set up their own state offices of \u201cgun violence prevention\u201d and to pass more restrictive firearms laws, including red-flag laws, safe-storage laws and laws further attacking the firearms industry.<\/p>\n

        \u201cThe agenda is not comprehensive, but highlights actions that states can take to achieve meaningful progress in the next year,\u201d the brochure distributed at the meeting said. While the media called the office \u201ca win for advocacy groups\u201d and an important step in fighting gun violence, NRA-ILA Executive Director Randy Kozuch more appropriately called it the \u201cMinistry of Disarmament<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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        1. Violent Crime is Actually on the Rise<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          When the FBI reported in September 2023 that violent crime in 2022 had dropped 2.1% from the previous year, the media ate it up, and the Democrats embraced the news as a top campaign talking point; however, when the FBI quietly released \u201crevised\u201d data last month showing that violent crime actually\u00a0increased<\/em>\u00a04.5% in 2022, neither the media nor the Harris campaign have stopped calling former President Donald Trump (R) a liar for saying crime is rising.<\/p>\n

          In fact, as recently as October 16,\u00a0CBS News was reporting<\/a>\u00a0that Harris was telling the truth by using the original FBI statistics. \u201cBoth candidates are citing different federal statistics that measure violent crime; Trump cites a Justice Department survey, while Harris cites FBI data on crimes reported by police departments,\u201d the report stated. \u201cCrime researchers tell CBS News that while both are valuable metrics, the FBI data Harris cites is more reliable.\u201d<\/p>\n

          I guess they might seem \u201cmore reliable\u201d to CBS News\u2014if the reporters and editors there choose to ignore the revised numbers, representing a net increase of more than 80,000 more violent crimes.<\/p>\n

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          1. Tim Walz Also Wants to Ban Guns<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            It\u2019s likely that one of the reasons Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as her running mate was in hopes of peeling some of the all-important gun-owner vote away from former President Trump. And the mainstream-media outlets love to fawn over his gun ownership; they even went along on a recent opening-day pheasant hunt to make him look \u201coutdoorsy.\u201d But then, that didn\u2019t go as planned. Not only was Walz a\u00a0klutz at trying to load<\/a>\u00a0what he claimed was his own shotgun, which drew widespread ridicule among many gun owners, but his past record on guns and gun control is clear.<\/p>\n

            Concerning guns, Walz is a political chameleon who, while in Congress, purported to be a friend of gun owners in order to receive their support in his rural Minnesota district. But, once he set his sights on other offices, he sold out law-abiding Minnesotans and promoted a radical gun-control agenda that emboldened criminals and left everyday citizens defenseless.<\/p>\n

            Add to that the\u00a0incident<\/a>\u00a0in which he greatly exaggerated his military role while pushing radical gun-control proposals, and there\u2019s little doubt that together, he and Harris make up one of the most anti-gun pairs ever to run for the presidency and vice presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            What the Media Won\u2019t Tell You About Guns in This Election Undoubtedly, most Americans are aware of the mainstream media\u2019s bias when it comes to reporting the \u201cfacts.\u201d A recent\u00a0Gallup Poll\u00a0revealed that only 31% of Americans say they have a \u201cgreat deal\u201d or \u201cfair amount\u201d of confidence in the media to report the news \u201cfully, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,38,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceit","category-meme-o-the-day","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105264,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105263\/revisions\/105264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}