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If you’re like most gun owners, you probably roll your eyes or simply turn off the television when the anchors start talking about gun issues (and gun control in particular). Hearing a supposed journalist somberly discuss “fully automatic assault clips” and describe bans on commonly owned firearms as merely “gun safety regulations” is like nails on a chalkboard, only worse. Nobody was ever influenced to back a new piece of legislation because of that screeching sound, but the same can’t be said of a talking head on CNN or CBS.
While that may be one of the biggest issues in media coverage for gun owners, it was a minor consideration for the journalists who took part in a webinar hosted by the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma and the Columbia Journalism Review on Tuesday afternoon, which sought to examine how the issue of guns and “gun violence” is covered in this country.
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The members of Moms Demand Action love to portray themselves as folks who aren’t opposed to the Second Amendment, but are just in favor of a “few common sense gun regulations.” In truth, though, I’ve never seen any volunteer or staffer with MDA object to a gun control bill on Second Amendment grounds (or for any other reason, for that matter). Their idea of “gun safety” is don’t own a gun, and almost everything the organization does is designed to limit the right to keep and bear arms; either through new legislation or public pressure campaigns against private businesses.