Rolling Out Pushes Anti-gun Propaganda and Everytown Research

AmmoLand ^ | January 12, 2026 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

An article published on rollingout.com claims to “debunk” myths about guns with “real data”. All the “real data” used is from advocates who oppose the ownership of guns.

If you skip to the end of the article, the source listed for the numbers used in the article is Everytown Research. Everytown Research is one of the propaganda arms of the anti-Second Amendment organization Everytown for Gun Safety, financed by Michael Bloomberg, a staunch anti-Second Amendment advocate. To use such a source to “debunk” myths is similar to asking the Flat Earth Society to “debunk” myths about gravity.

The pitch starts with the presumption that some nebulous entity called “the gun industry” has “spent decades convincing people that danger lurks around every corner”. This is a peculiar and highly dubious statement. Gun makers are shut out of most major media. You do not see ads for guns on major television shows. There are no ads for guns at the Super Bowl. You hardly see any ads showing guns used defensively against crime. Most social networks vigorously ban advertisements of weapons. To claim otherwise is a Marxian fantasy. The old dominant media often parrot anti-Second Amendment myths. Such dominance is fading.

Having grown up in the gun culture in the decades referred to in the article, there is some truth about the danger of crime to families being overemphasized. It isn’t by the “gun industry”. It is largely attributed to the old media, including movies and television shows, as well as the emphasis on violent crime in the media.  This correspondent recalls many television shows that would have become much shorter if the “victims” were armed. Yes, the gun culture in the United States has shifted from hunting to personal protection, target shooting, and protection from government tyranny.

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[marktwain]

An "article" using nothing by direct propaganda from Everytown.

[ansel12]

What was that book that claimed Americans did not own guns in colonial days and later, that it was all a myth and some of the books records were based on the author’s research from sources that didn’t exist and had not since about 1906?

[ansel12]

Here it is.

“Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture is a discredited 2000 book by historian Michael A. Bellesiles about American gun culture, an expansion of a 1996 article he published in the Journal of American History. Bellesiles, then a professor at Emory University, used research missing context to argue that during the early period of US history, guns were uncommon during peacetime and that a culture of gun ownership did not arise until the mid-nineteenth century.
Although the book was awarded the prestigious Bancroft Prize in 2001, it later became the first work for which the prize was rescinded”

[maddog55]

Those like guns have guns, those that hate guns don’t. Propaganda against guns and gun ownership has no effect on those who like and have guns.

It’s no different then the MSM...there’s those that believe every word and those of us who know better.

[marktwain]

An odd part about those who want the population disarmed. Most of them are ignorant about firearms, and are proud of their ignorance.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

After what happened in Europe in the 1930’s and 1940’s, and what has been happening in the present day in Israel and America, I can honestly say that any Jew who is opposed to firearm ownership is a f-——g retard.

Yeah, Michael Bloomturd, I’m talking to YOU. When is this runt going to give up his private army of armed security?

[Terry L Smith]

Dear ‘Everybody”, I’m ok that you don’t think that the 2A holds any water. That is your OPINION. The 2A does, and has, existed since it was first penned, and means what it lays out.

Where you err is when you attempt to rob other American citizens of their personal choice to exercise or not their own 2A rights by a blanket denial that citizens should not own firearms, or to allow only pigeonholes of your choice.

Where is the individual’s freedom in that? Isn’t that what our Colonial ancestors fought for, and used firearms in that fight for freedom?

[MtnClimber]

Has Bloomberg given up his security detail?

[centermass_socrates]

So true.

[sauropod]

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