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Elite Media Can\u2019t Stop Lying About Guns in America<\/a><\/p>\n

The mainstream media lies to us. They feed us propaganda. They don\u2019t want us to know that gun ownership is widespread and that armed defense is common. I was at a conference for minor-media this weekend. There, an associate talked about being turned away from most of his local news stations because \u201cwe don\u2019t run pro-gun stories. No self-defense.\u201d Let me show you where the propaganda starts at the top.<\/p>\n

Dr. John Lott looked at the five largest newspapers in the US. They ran 1 self-defense story for every 1300 stories of criminal activity with a gun. (more here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The good news, and there is some good news, is that we know better. We have data that comes from outside the media bubble. We caught major US newspapers lying to us. We can actually measure the amount of media distortion.<\/p>\n

We use a firearm for defense far more often than the thugs use guns during a crime. We legally defend ourselves about four times more often than a criminal uses a gun to threaten or injure us (467 thousand criminal incidents vs 1.4-2.3 million defensive gun uses).<\/p>\n

We can quantify the media exaggeration. Honest reporting would tell us when we were attacked and also tell us when we defended ourselves. That isn\u2019t what we get from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, or the Wall Street Journal. Each time it occurs, these major US newspapers were over 5 thousand times more likely to run a story of victimization than defense. Distortions of that magnitude can\u2019t be an accident. That censorship is the result of deliberate editorial policy.<\/p>\n

That is serious. That biased reporting distorts public perception of violence and defense. It twists public policy, and it isn\u2019t an accident. Media propaganda isn\u2019t a fault, but a deliberate feature that was bought and paid for.<\/p>\n

Anti-gun billionaires paid millions of dollars to twist the news. They ran \u201ceducational\u201d conferences for the media on how to report self-defense as \u201cgun violence\u201d. They also pay propagandists to recommend movie and TV scripts that distort the truth about civilian self-defense.<\/p>\n

You can prove it to yourself. We defend ourselves more often than the police, and ordinary citizens make fewer mistakes with a gun than the police. So, when was the last time you saw an honest portrayal of armed defense on the TV cop dramas where an ordinary person used a firearm responsibly? I couldn\u2019t find a single one.<\/p>\n

Media apologists have said that self-defense isn\u2019t news. I disagree. The biased media buries armed defense stories even in incidents where armed citizens stopped mass murder. Again, the media was too busy lying about us and our neighbors to report the truth.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m reminded of the Chinese immigrant who said he never watched the news when he was in China because he knew the news was filled with lies. Again, let me close by sharing some good news. We\u2019re walking away from the lying media. CNN lost half its viewers in the last year.<\/p>\n

Find real news and listen past the lies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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