Tv present bias in opposition to weapons is endless. Aside from a couple of episodes on Paramount’s Yellowstone, you received’t see an leisure tv present with a civilian efficiently utilizing a gun defensively. As an alternative, one thing all the time appears to go mistaken when weapons are used defensively (from being fatally shot by the prison with out stopping the crime to getting in the way in which of police to frequently having the gun stolen and use in against the law to it being utilized in an unintended taking pictures). In reality, after the Supreme Court docket’s Bruen choice earlier this yr, tv exhibits appear to be displaying extra unhealthy defensive gun makes use of than ever earlier than. This episode of CBS’s “FBI” isn’t any completely different (Season 5, Episode 11, January 10, 2023). This episode has an instance of a defensive gun use failing. A pair is compelled to attempt to break into a security deposit field at a financial institution to retrieve the code for cryptocurrency in order that they’ll hold their younger daughter from being murdered. After they notice that it is likely to be hopeless, the husband places down is gun and tries to console his spouse. In the meantime, an FBI agent is making actual progress convincing them to cease the heist, however a financial institution supervisor tries to seize the robber’s gun and never solely will get shot however undoes all of the progress that the FBI was making with the couple. This instance is similar to a latest episode of ABC’s “The Rookie,” the place a citizen with a permitted hid handgun intervenes in a financial institution theft and will get shot and interferes with the police doing their job.
It’s considerably miserable that any such misinformation was seen by 7.47 million viewers. In our assortment of 124 instances the place armed civilians have stopped lively taking pictures assaults, there’s not one case that corresponds to the examples proven in these varied TV exhibits the place a hid carry allow holder by chance shoots a bystander or the place they triggered a bystander to be shot.
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Extra examples of a majority of these exhibits are obtainable right here.
Here’s a video on Hollywood’s bias in opposition to weapons.
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