{"id":88926,"date":"2022-12-29T13:53:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T19:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88926"},"modified":"2022-12-29T13:54:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T19:54:49","slug":"88926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88926","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it isn’t often referred to as ‘Peoples<\/em> Public Radio’ (as in how commie China’s calls everything “peoples”) for nothing. And I don’t like my tax money funding either.<\/p>\n

PBS openly pushes gun control agenda<\/a><\/p>\n

American taxpayers help fund PBS. We don\u2019t pay for all of it, but a non-trivial sum of tax dollars go to the network. Any attempt to cut that funding is met with consternation. \u201cHow dare you cut funding to [insert innocuous PBS show here]!\u201d<\/p>\n

They ignore that this is a network that continually pushes an agenda. Part of that agenda is gun control, and\u00a0they\u2019re not even really trying to hide it.<\/a><\/p>\n

On Friday\u2019s\u00a0Amanpour & Co.<\/em>, fill-in host Sara Sidner devoted a segment to promoting the agenda of a gun control advocate and made no serious effort to challenge her liberal guest\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n

In the pre-recorded interview with Dr. Joseph Safran which aired on PBS and CNN International, Sidner promoted such misinformation as claiming that mass shootings are \u201cuniquely American,<\/strong>\u201d and she also overstated the number of mass killings in 2022.<\/p>\n

Sidner misleadingly began the segment:<\/p>\n

2022 will go down as the second highest year for mass shootings in the United States on record. That means more than 600 mass killings in the past 12 months alone, according to data compiled by the nongovernmental organization, Gun Violence Archive. The shootings come at a disturbing pace, often too fast to grasp \u2014 people going about their day suddenly gunned down in schools, supermarkets, night clubs, movie theaters, in the streets, you name it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She soon added: \u201cAre these tragedies preventable? And why can\u2019t we stop this\u00a0uniquely American problem<\/strong>?\u201d<\/p>\n

But, according to the\u00a0website she cited<\/a>, there have been 36 cases of gun-related \u201cmass murder\u201d in 2022, which would also include killings in private residences in addition to public places. Additionally, there are certainly plenty of other countries where homicide numbers are high.<\/p>\n

On the subject of mass shootings in public places, Europe has had a worse problem than the U.S., which, unlike the U.S., has even\u00a0included fully automatic<\/a>\u00a0machine gun attacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, this isn\u2019t a \u201cuniquely American problem\u201d and it never has been. We just think that because we tend to be far more focused on what\u2019s happening here than elsewhere in the world. I mean, sure, we know that Ukraine and Russia are at war, but do we know who the major opposition members are in Belgium?<\/p>\n

Not so much.<\/p>\n

So, we focus on American mass shootings because they\u2019re closer to home, then delude ourselves into thinking that these kinds of things just don\u2019t happen anywhere else.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve seen numerous mass shootings outside of American borders.\u00a0Thailand<\/a>, for example, or\u00a0Russia<\/a>. Those are just two right off the top of my head, and I don\u2019t see all such shootings by any stretch of the imagination.<\/p>\n

The idea that this is a \u201cuniquely American problem\u201d needs to be challenged, but PBS didn\u2019t. They advanced it. They present it uncritically as if this is so self-evident that it doesn\u2019t require challenge.<\/p>\n

Yet it does. It\u2019s not a factual statement, and the fact that it\u2019s treated as such is a big chunk of why we can\u2019t solve the issue.<\/p>\n

If people acknowledged that these shootings were far from unusual in places like Europe, they\u2019d be forced to face the facts that gun control isn\u2019t an answer. They\u2019d have to look elsewhere for a solution, and that could be difficult and potentially messy.<\/p>\n

So, they blame guns, pretend it isn\u2019t happening in other places, and get PBS to help push that agenda.<\/p>\n

Well,\u00a0this<\/em>\u00a0is why some of us want to cut off taxpayer funding for them. You want to keep them afloat? Then you pay for it. I\u2019m sick of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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