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7 Examples of Media Bias Against Gun Owners (VIDEO)
guns.com ^ | 27 March, 2013 | S.H. Blannelberry

Posted on 03/27/2013 8:54:48 AM PDT by marktwain

Is the mainstream media biased against gun owners? You bet it is.

Are gun owners aware of this fact? Yes. Do we care? I suspect most of us don’t. At this point, it’s pretty much expected.

With that said, we do get irked from time to time at the media’s portrayal of gun owners, which frequently hews to the narrative that we’re all a bunch of paranoid zealots, blood-thirsty and pernicious, who horde supplies and hideout in subterranean bunkers awaiting a zombie apocalypse.

Naw, that might be overstating it. It’s probably more accurate to say that the media propagates or reinforces some version of President Obama’s notorious depiction of Middle America when talking about gun owners:

“It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” - President Obama, 2008.

The implication one often sees in various media outlets is that there’s an unhealthy bond between gun owners and their firearms, that we’re flawed or have some type of character defect for believing that individuals are personally responsible for their safety, that the Constitution protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms, that guns — when placed in the right hands — can save lives.

Below are seven examples that show media bias against gun owners.


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KEYWORDS: agenda; banglist; bias; burnthemedia; corruption; democrats; enemedia; fascistmedia; guncontrol; liberalmedia; mediabias; mediacorruption; msm; pravdamedia; secondamendment; youwillnotdisarmus
It is important to note that the "gun control movement" would not exist in any meaningful form without the MSM commitment to the agenda of citizen disarmament.

Therefore it is important that this agenda be exposed. In a way, it is "bias" because most "progressives" are not introspective and do not attempt to determine their own motives or question their basic assumptions. They are exceptionally good at lying to themselves and ignoring information that does not promote their world view.

This disregard for truth and facts is at the heart of the "progressive" world view.

1 posted on 03/27/2013 8:54:48 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

The so -called media polls showing 70% of the people in favor of gun control, get me riled. Had a friend that ran a phone room that did some polls, he would ask “what results do you want?” He would formulate the questions to get the intended results.


2 posted on 03/27/2013 9:03:57 AM PDT by Foolsgold (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: marktwain

Obamanation Counterculture File.


3 posted on 03/27/2013 9:09:20 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Foolsgold
Pollster: Do you believe that little children should be safe from being mowed down by machine guns?

Citizen: Well, sure.

Pollster: (another vote for total disarmament. check.)

4 posted on 03/27/2013 9:46:30 AM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: marktwain

only 7 ?

that’s 1 hour of watching MSDNC.


5 posted on 03/27/2013 9:46:48 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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