How The Media AND Politicians May Be To Blame For Mass Shootings

By Tom Knighton

Here at Bearing Arms, we give the mainstream media a lot of scorn. I’m not likely to change that anytime soon, either. After all, they’re extremely biased against anything perceived as being on the right of the political spectrum, and that includes guns.

As a result, they use that bias to work against gun rights with everything they do.

However, I’m about to share with you all something of a theory of mine. It’s something I’ve been considering for a little while now, and that’s how the media may actually be at least partially to blame for the surge in mass shootings. The other part of the blame may rest with politicians themselves, and not in the way so many anti-gunners like to think.

You see, while mass shootings aren’t exactly new, there does appear to be a noticeable uptick in their frequency.

Over at National Affairs, they took a look at mass shootings in a fairly long piece. What I want to direct your attention to is a graphic a little more than a third of the way down. It lists the presidents and the number of mass shootings during each’s time in the Oval Office. This was published last …Read the Rest

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