Anti-Gun Media Seems To Blame Shooting On VA GOP

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Brennan Linsley

It’s not difficult to tell that there is a strong anti-gun bias amongst the media. We see examples all of the time.

However, many in the media try to be either subtle or actively try to suppress their biases. They’re not particularly blatant if they can help it. After all, they want to at least appear to be an unbiased source of information.

Sometimes, though, it’s like they don’t even try.

A prime example comes from a news story titled, “Pregnant Woman Shot Near Virginia Capitol Right After Failed Gun Debate.”

Outrage was still rising Tuesday when Levar Stoney received the text message from his police chief.

The mayor of Richmond had spent the morning speaking to crowds outside the state Capitol ahead of a special legislative session on gun control. He’d invoked the victims of a May 31 mass shooting in Virginia Beach and urged lawmakers to pass “common sense” gun laws.

“There is an opportunity to do right,” he’d said. “That day is today.”

Instead, the Republican-controlled legislature had adjourned after 90 minutes without considering a single bill.

Then, as Stoney, a Democrat, attended an event that afternoon on traffic safety, his phone buzzed with another one of the messages that, …Read the Rest

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