The Fake News History of the Anti-Gun Media
By John Farnam
By John Farnam
Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- “Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery” ~ Alexander Theroux
A good friend and criminal investigator has pointed out that, from the time he started his career in the 1960s, the media has been relentlessly obsessed with the particular firearm, or group of firearms, used by criminals of the era, or that were used by the perpetrator of a particular violent crime.
Of course, it was always that particular gun that the media subsequently wanted banned, as if banning that particular weapon would cause criminal violence to cease.
In the 1960s, it was the “Saturday-night special,” a non-specific term usually used to refer to a 38Spl snubby revolver. Hyper-ventilating reporters repeatedly referred to them as “the preferred weapon of criminals” (as preposterous as saying, “Fords, the preferred car of drunk drivers”), and they neglected to acknowledge that sunbby revolvers were pretty popular with police of the period then too. Still are with many of us!
Rifles? “Not the problem,” according to the media- back then.
I remember reading an editorial in Time Magazine in the 1970s, …Read the Rest
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