The Trace: Coverage Of Mass Shootings Compromises Public Safety

By Tom Knighton

In my time at Bearing Arms, just over two years now, I’ve had occasion to write about the anti-gun site, The Trace from time to time. Usually, I’m taking issue with something they said, or occasionally pointing out how something they found disproves the idea that gun control works. I’ve jokingly referred to them as the anti-Bearing Arms to some.

But I’ll give them due when I feel like they get it right.

“Tom, you’ve never given them anything like that,” someone might say, and they’d be right. They haven’t done anything I felt warranted it.

That is, until now.

You see, over at The Trace, they seem to understand one thing that is very important when it comes to mass shootings. They understand that the media plays a role, and it’s time for that to change.

America has entered a new age of mass shootings. Every few weeks — or hours, in the case of El Paso and Dayton — a young man with a gun commits an atrocity. And every time it happens, news media are there to relentlessly cover the aftermath. Each new detail — a killer’s name, a photograph — becomes a prize in the …Read the Rest

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