{"id":79205,"date":"2022-03-26T15:41:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T20:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=79205"},"modified":"2022-03-26T15:41:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T20:41:55","slug":"79205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=79205","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The lies the media refuses to call out<\/a><\/p>\n

The media isn\u2019t exactly friendly towards gun ownership. We all know this, so I\u2019m not exactly breaking news here.<\/p>\n

However, they will still occasionally take issue with outright lies, even if they ultimately agree with the position.<\/p>\n

There are some lies they won\u2019t bother to call out,\u00a0and this is one of them<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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What is known about the links among gun prevalence, gun purchasing trends and gun violence?<\/b><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve known for a long time that the more access there is to firearms in a society, the more firearm violence there is likely to be. It\u2019s been shown in comparisons of societies and U.S. states with different levels of firearm ownership.<\/p>\n

During the pandemic, as purchasing picked up across the country, we learned there was \u2013 at least early on \u2013 a relationship between an increase in gun purchases above expected levels and a later\u00a0increase in violence<\/a> above expected levels.<\/p>\n

As 2020 went on, that signal was lost, except for domestic violence, because many other things were contributing to increases in violence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We\u2019ve known no such thing about access to firearms.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been told that such a link exists, but when you look at the studies that claim this, you can see serious problems with every single one of them.<\/p>\n

For example, when comparing societies or even different states, it\u2019s impossible to truly control for other variables that may somehow impact violent crime. While the prevalence of guns may exist, so do numerous other factors that can easily contribute to the problem.<\/p>\n

Issues like jobs, education, population density, and a host of other factors all have been argued to contribute to crime. So why wouldn\u2019t they also be a factor where guns are easily accessible?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a question the media never answers.<\/p>\n

Nor do they seem to consider why this knowledge is so unquestionable despite crime skyrocketing\u00a0someplace like Los Angeles, which doesn\u2019t have easy access to firearms?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s because the media simply doesn\u2019t care about the truth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They\u2019ve pushed the gun control narrative with every fiber of their being. They\u2019ll have a gun-control advocate on the primetime talk shows to calmly discuss their point of view, but gun rights advocates are often paired with another gun-control activist so they can debate the issue, tilting the balance so people are really getting inundated with one side.<\/p>\n

Media personalities have to know what they\u2019re doing, just like they have to know that this idea that we know definitively that increased access to guns somehow makes violent crime higher is bogus.<\/p>\n

They know and they don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

They like these kinds of lies because they can hold up those flawed studies and say they\u2019re only spitting facts, trusting that most people wouldn\u2019t understand\u00a0why\u00a0those studies are complete and utter BS. They\u2019re hoping you\u2019re too stupid to learn how to read a study, learn to find the flaws in a given study, then criticize it for being what it is, an attempt to push a narrative.<\/p>\n

Frankly, I\u2019m kind of sick of seeing this nonsense from our media. The thing is, I don\u2019t expect to ever see them do better, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The lies the media refuses to call out The media isn\u2019t exactly friendly towards gun ownership. We all know this, so I\u2019m not exactly breaking news here. However, they will still occasionally take issue with outright lies, even if they ultimately agree with the position. There are some lies they won\u2019t bother to call out,\u00a0and … 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":[64,75,8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceit","category-media","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79205","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=79205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79206,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79205\/revisions\/79206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}