Networks put gun ruling in their crosshairs

From: Douglas C. Mills, Executive Vice President, The Media Research Center

The recent Supreme Court ruling striking down a ban on handgun ownership in Washington, D.C., touched off a maelstrom of negative media reports about how the ruling would lead to more gun violence.

Really?

The 32-year ban on handguns in our Nation's Capital was one of the strictest, yet the District has been widely labeled "the murder capital of the country". Why didn't the media analyze that?

For the full Culture and Media Institute report:

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=8733&RID=16261470

Just after the ruling, The N.Y. Times used a misleading statistic to bolster their argument.

"Thirty-thousand Americans are killed by guns every year -- on the job, walking to school, at the shopping mall. The Supreme Court on Thursday all but ensured that even more Americans will die senselessly with its wrongheaded and dangerous ruling striking down key parts of the District of Columbia's gun-control law."

The Times failed to mention that nearly half of the 30,000 deaths are suicides. The paper also didn't look at how many of those homicides were the result of self-defense.

Instead, the Times, like its liberal network counterparts, lamented that the "far-right" court got it wrong, setting the stage for more violence and death.

Go here for the complete Timeswatch report:

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=8734&RID=16261470

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