How Hollywood Uses TV Shows To Lie About Good Guys With Guns

An alleged armed robber pushed into Ranchito #4 Taqueria Nearly all customers were overcome with fear on January 4. One good Samaritan, a 46-year-old male, jumped to his defense and helped his fellow patrons. The alleged perpetrator was shot by him using a concealed firearm. He then returned the cash to the patrons who were terrified, only to later discover that the gun the alleged robber used wasn’t real.

Despite the customer’s heroic actions, he has received nothing but condemnation from corporate media after the alleged thief was declared dead on the scene. This media treatment is not new. Despite the fact that there have been so many of these courageous individuals taking action over the past years, only a handful of good Samaritans received any media attention.  

For example, in December, a man stopped an activ shooter at an Amazon warehouse parking garage in Phoenix, Arizona. The man was called by police. “good Samaritan” He is credited with likely stopping further bloodshed. A second case occurred later in the month. An active shooter attacked a Tucson bar, Arizona, and threatened many people. But he was stopped by police. “stopped short by a heroic customer with a gun.”

These stories are not often covered by mainstream media outlets, but you will hear them. all the time. There are dozens of cases in recent years in which concealed handgun permitholders stopped what, according to police, would have otherwise become mass public shootings.

These good Samaritans saving the day would make gripping stories, but we don’t see much news on these cases. The truth about these good Samaritans is also hidden by national entertainment television: Over the decades, ABC, CBS and NBC have all been broadcasting them. refused Not one civilian has used a gun to defend themselves. It is hard to believe that Americans use guns defensively an average of approximately 80% of the time. 2 million They use guns four to five more times per year to stop crime than they do to commit it.

Entertainment programs show defense gun uses every time going wrong The only exception to the rule in the past decade was Paramount’s “Yellowstone”). In most cases, the citizen does not defend himself and is killed, accidentally shoots someone he loves, or poses a threat to the police and himself. The citizen is then charged with the following: Supreme Court decision this past June striking down New York’s restrictions on concealed handguns, television shows have begun to demonize concealed-carry permits.

These are just a few of the many examples that have been taken from the 2022-23 TV season thus far.

ABC’s “The Rookie,” Jan. 3, 2023: A legally-armed civilian intervenes against the advice of a police officer in a bank robbery. He fails to get another civilian killed, despite his best intentions. To make matters worse, the armed civilian’s intervention allows the bank robbers to escape. “Leave it to a good guy with a gun to really screw things up,” The police officer remarks. About 4.5 million The episode was seen by many viewers.

CBS’s “FBI: Most Wanted,” Nov. 22, 2022: After a criminal bashes a person’s head with a rock in Central