Another case of liberal bias in the media. As reported by NewsMax.com, when three law students subdued a bad guy at a school shooting in Virginia last week, out of the 280 separate news stories about the incident, only four actually reported that it was with the use of guns that they were able to subdue the man.
Noting that the rampage was widely covered in the world's media, Lott wrote: "As usual, there were calls for more gun control. Yet in this age of 'gun-free school zones,' the vast majority of the news reports ignored the fact that the attack was stopped by two students who had guns in their cars. The quick response by two of the students, Mikael Gross, 34, and Tracy Bridges, 25, undoubtedly saved multiple lives," Lott reported.
Such selective reporting is not unusual, Lott noted. "In the other public school shootings where citizens with guns have stopped attacks, rarely do more than one percent of the news stories mention that citizens with guns stopped the attacks."
Lott cited research showing there are 2 million defensive gun uses each year. "After all, if these events were really happening, wouldn't we hear about them on the news? But when was the last time you saw a story on the national evening news (or even the local news) about a citizen using his gun to stop a crime?"
Such "misreporting actually endangers people's lives," Lott concluded. "By selectively reporting the news and turning a defensive gun use story into one where students merely 'overpowered a gunman' the media gives misleading impressions of what works when people are confronted by violence.
"Research consistently shows that having a gun is the safest way to respond to any type of criminal attack, especially these multiple victim shootings."
Of course, Dr. John Lott, who I've mentioned before, is the author of the groundbreaking work, More Guns, Less Crime. Here is the original article from the NY Post that the NewsMax article referrs to: The Missing Gun.
Saturday, January 26, 2002
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