‘Imagine if Media Treated Gun Rights Groups Honestly,’ Says Writer

By Dave Workman

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Buried near the end of a 916-word Op-ed for Fox News discussing the recent walkout of students and parents at a vigil-turned-gun-control-event, writer and best-selling author Frank Miniter drives a rhetorical wooden stake deep into the heart of the media’s bias against guns and people who own them.

“Political differences aside,” Miniter proffers, “imagine if the media actually treated gun rights groups honestly.”

Indeed. Imagine that.

For decades, gun owners and especially Second Amendment activists have complained about media bias. Editorials demanding increasingly restrictive gun control laws are one thing, but when – as many rights activists have asserted – bias finds its way into news columns, that’s a problem.

Miniter, who admits to writing a weekly gun-rights column for the NRA, reported on the walkout at the evening vigil for students who were shot by two of their own classmates at Colorado’s STEM School Highlands Ranch. Students and their parents were appalled and angered when visiting politicians tried to exploit the event to push a gun control agenda.

The event was admittedly sponsored by a Brady Campaign youth group called “Team Enough.” But, as …Read the Rest

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