Reality And Rhetoric: How Anti-Gun Bias Distorts Truth

By Tom Knighton

By now, the typical Bearing Arms reader understands that the media isn’t necessarily to be trusted. Especially when it comes to the subject of guns. The media presents a particularly biased view of self-defense in particular.

You see, most people who buy guns do it for self-defense. They’re worried about being the victim of a crime and they want to be able to defend themselves if that happens.

The media, however, present that as nothing more than paranoia. As The Heritage Foundation’s Amy Swearer notes over at The Daily Signal:

Gun control advocates long have controlled the narrative about defensive uses of firearms, calling the “good guy with a gun” scenario a “myth meant to scare people into buying guns for self-defense.”

This is a false narrative that does not reflect reality.

Despite a backdrop of rhetoric asserting that “the average person … has basically no chance in their lifetime ever to use a gun in self-defense,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a 2013 report concluded that studies routinely find that Americans use firearms in defense of themselves or others between 500,000 and 3 million times every year.

Data collected by the CDC itself, but long hidden …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms