Why Media Bias on Guns Is Such a Major Problem

[rmc51]

Why Media Bias on Guns Is Such a Major Problem
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/10/12/why-media-bias-on-guns-is-such-a-major-problem-n1230223?utm_source=badaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=fc85d9fd0a377773055f1925941bbce485d3c69b5dace0c187ab5912dd7d0cd7&lctg=26251812

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The survey’s final question received almost no notice at all, but it revealed a critical bit of information.

The question was: “From what you have read or heard, do you think, compared to 25 years ago, the per capita gun murder rate in the U.S. is higher, lower, or about the same?”
59% of participants said the rate was higher; 23% said it was about the same; only 11% said it was lower.

This is kind of a trick question: Since the question was asked in 2019, the 25-year period would have covered 1994 to 2018.

The CDC’s homicide rate figures can’t be used; they include all three offenses in National Incident-Based Reporting System’s (NIBRS) 09 code and “gun murder” covers only Code 09A, murder and non-negligent homicide.*

The data closest to accurate is found in the FBI’s annual Crime in the U.S. reports. These reports are sourced from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting system (UCR), which has been in use since 1929 and operated by the FBI since 1930.

Using the firearm murder figures and population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, the per capita U.S. gun murder rate plunged 42% from 1994 to 2018.
82% of the Americans polled believed something completely at odds with reality. It will surprise exactly nobody to learn neither the mainstream media nor the gun control zealots mentioned this. Lies of omission work as well as lies of commission.



 
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[Smokin Joe]

There you go, trying to bring facts into the discussion.

How evil, invalidating their (easily manipulated) feelings?

[rmc51]

There you go, trying to bring facts into the discussion.

How evil, invalidating their (easily manipulated) feelings?

Yep!, I have a bad habit of doing that.



 
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[roamer_1]

It really doesn't even matter - The real statistical truth comes from a comparison between the murder rate and how many times guns were used in defense of self or others. THAT has relevance.

And even that doesn't matter all that much. Rural use of guns for the purpose of defense against varmints and defense of livestock, and the use of guns for subsistence - As basic tools of every day living and survival takes the whole argument right off the table.

That's why guns are so matter-of-fact in the country and why city folks cannot understand.

[Smokin Joe]

Yep!, I have a bad habit of doing that.



 
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We know the media is all about perceptions. Never mind distortions, they will try to get you to believe that one brand of soap is better than another (because they are paid to say that), that some smells good (>gag!<), or that black is white or vice-versa.

They've been trying to sell us the new improved faster acting more convenient lemon scented version of reality that keeps the checks coming in, and if reality doesn't measure up to all that in your experience, they will blame you, not their fabrications.

So it goes. Did I mention it has electrolytes?