Wait a Minute! Media Spin On VA Gun Session Misleading at Best

By Dave Workman

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Earlier this week when the Virginia General Assembly gathered in Richmond briefly to put an end to anti-gun Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam’s alleged grandstanding on gun control in reaction to the Virginia Beach mass shooting, lawmakers did act but it took the editor of a firearms publication to put it in perspective, while the mainstream press either talked around what happened, or distorted it.

One might conclude that the way this session was reported amounts to an exercise in “Media Bias 101,” which would not be entirely accurate, but not without some merit.
Writing Friday in an Op-Ed for Fox News, Frank Miniter, editor-in-chief of “America’s 1st Freedom,” a magazine owned by the National Rifle Association, explained what other news agencies didn’t.

“Republican lawmakers wisely referred all of the gun control bills submitted to the special session of the Legislature to the bipartisan state Crime Commission,” Miniter wrote. “This will enable the proposals to be studied, so lawmakers can actually craft legislation that would help …Read the Rest

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