Why doesn't the media cover this?

Posted By Blackfive

This story, about the lack of media coverage on gun use in successful home defense, via Fox:

Why People Fear Guns

...The print media was almost as biased: The New York Times ran 50,745 words on contemporaneous gun crimes, but only one short, 163-word story on a retired police officer who used his gun to stop a robbery. For USA Today, the tally was 5,660 words on gun crimes versus zero on defensive uses.

Just take some of the 18 defensive gun uses that I found covered by newspapers around the country during the first 10 days of December:

-- Little Rock, Ark: After the assailant attacked him and his son-in-law with a poker, a 64-year-old minister shot a man dead on church grounds. The attacker had engaged in a string of assaults in an apparent drug-induced frenzy.

-- Corpus Christi, Texas: A woman shot to death her ex-husband, who had broken into her house. The woman had a restraining order against the ex-husband.

-- Tampa Bay, Fla.: A 71-year-old man, Melvin Spaulding, shot 20-year-old James Moore in the arm as Moore and two friends were beating up his neighbor, 63-year-old George Lowe. Spaulding had a concealed weapons permit...

You should go read the whole story.

I happen to live in a city, Chicago, that bans handguns. So, of course, only the criminals have them (and they kill a lot of people with them)...well, the criminals aren't always the only ones with handguns. Some people *ahem* break the law to protect their homes.

Update: The Discoshaman has an idea about lowering the Chicago murder rate.

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Why doesn't the media cover this?

This story, about the lack of media coverage on gun use in successful home defense, via Fox:

Why People Fear Guns

...The print media was almost as biased: The New York Times ran 50,745 words on contemporaneous gun crimes, but only one short, 163-word story on a retired police officer who used his gun to stop a robbery. For USA Today, the tally was 5,660 words on gun crimes versus zero on defensive uses.

Just take some of the 18 defensive gun uses that I found covered by newspapers around the country during the first 10 days of December:

-- Little Rock, Ark: After the assailant attacked him and his son-in-law with a poker, a 64-year-old minister shot a man dead on church grounds. The attacker had engaged in a string of assaults in an apparent drug-induced frenzy.

-- Corpus Christi, Texas: A woman shot to death her ex-husband, who had broken into her house. The woman had a restraining order against the ex-husband.

-- Tampa Bay, Fla.: A 71-year-old man, Melvin Spaulding, shot 20-year-old James Moore in the arm as Moore and two friends were beating up his neighbor, 63-year-old George Lowe. Spaulding had a concealed weapons permit...

You should go read the whole story.

I happen to live in a city, Chicago, that bans handguns. So, of course, only the criminals have them (and they kill a lot of people with them)...well, the criminals aren't always the only ones with handguns. Some people *ahem* break the law to protect their homes.

Update: The Discoshaman has an idea about lowering the Chicago murder rate.

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