Posted on 02/25/2021 9:55:03 AM PST by VictimsRightsPro2a
As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. This episode of NBC’s Blacklist (Season 8, Episode 1, November 13, 2020) starts off with a machine gun being used to break a federal witness out of federal protection.
In real life, criminals generally use machine guns so rarely that a 2016 survey of prison inmates only broke down the numbers for uses in crime of handguns (11.2%), rifles (0.8%), and shotguns (1.1%). There are few rifles, and the survey did not even mention fully automatic weapons. There is a reason for that. Since 1934, there are only two known uses ever of a machine gun being used in a murder. And even before 1934, they were very rare.
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In one episode, Raymond makes it his quest to go after the gun supplier that provided a convenient store killer a gun. Last episode I watched.
With the price of ammo, a machine gun is downright wasteful!
My wife and I used to watch NCIS: L.A. They had an unbelievable amount of pitched machine gun battles on the streets of L.A. Apparently L.A. is a warzone.
The crew in LA would fire more rounds in one exchange than Gibbs’ team would in two seasons.
Now that is one damn fine gun...
The funny thing about the L.A. show is that after a gun battle or surviving an explosion they clock out at the end of the day like it's a 9-5 job.
With the price of ammo, a machine gun is downright wasteful!
The Use Of Machine Guns On Television Shows Never Stops:
Television has become little more then a propaganda outlet for the leftist party. One can always tell which line they are pushing a t any given time by “forcing” yourself to watch TV.
They are constantly shoving their points down your throat.
One valuable thing that I learned from TV is that machine guns are wildly inaccurate. They make a lot of noice, but they never seem to hit anybody.
For that reason, I think the military should just ditch their machine guns, and go back to the old six-shooter. John Wayne could knock a guy off a ridge 200 yards away with one of those things.
Except of one thing. Barrel length indicates that it’s a semi-automatic. That is a rifle length barrel. The true sub-gun Thompson has a much shorter barrel.
I don’t know for sure, but heard that the Tommy Gun fired small pellets that didn’t usually penetrate past the muscle tissue. Hard to kill someone with it without hitting them a dozen times. But it had its effect of making everyone scramble - which is basically what a machine gun is used for. Not necessarily for killing but to clear the field and provide cover.
Everybody Loves Raymond sure took a dark turn for a sitcom :-)
My wife and I used to watch NCIS: L.A. They had an unbelievable amount of pitched machine gun battles on the streets of L.A. Apparently L.A. is a warzone.
There goes the reboot of Miami Vice.
My wife and I just started watching the original Miami Vice on Blu-ray. I haven't seen the show since its original airing in the 80s. I didn't know how it would hold up, and my wife had never seen it. It holds up very well (at least in the first two seasons) and my wife loves it. Really a dark "Miami Noir" kind of show.
Automatic weapons would be worth more if sold to a collector and they attract attention from the cops.
And who the heck can afford the ammo to feed them?
Just as bad as 1968-1986 when every show had it’s anti-gun scripts. Back then it was handguns that did all the evil.
Common plot was a man buys his wife a .25 cal pistol. It escapes the house and goes on a killing spree, till captured and melted down into a sewer cover.
It’s not a machine gun, it’s a sub machine gun. On the other hand, the BAR would qualify as a machine gun.
twice I have made it to like season 3 or 4 I think to where the liberal bias starts to become overbearing and both times I stopped watching right about the same place.
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