You, "stunned"? I'm surprised, you know better than most how the media spoon feeds the public. Unfortunately, we are only being told one side of the story. When we hear only one side, we assume that what we are told is all there is to know, and we do not inquire further. Biased media coverage controls public opinion by controlling public perception.
A study by the media watchdog Media Research Center (Alexandria, Virginia) concluded that media coverage of firearms is overwhelmingly biased to the negative, noting that between 1995 and 1999, television networks collectively aired 514 anti-gun stories, to a mere 46 that were pro-firearm, a ratio of more than 11-to-1 against firearms.
We have been conditioned to associate gun ownership with criminal activity, when in fact the opposite is true. There are nearly 80 million law-abiding gun owners in America, whose use of firearms is entirely for sport and self-defense. For these millions of people, firearms represent safety, security, and recreation. Shooting is even an Olympic sport, and the first medal of the 2000 Summer Olympics was gold, and was won by an American woman in a shooting event.
When a lone criminal misuses a firearm, does that negate the hundreds of thousands of times each year that firearms are used by citizens to prevent crime? Should the misdeed of a single wrongdoer be seized upon as an opportunity to recast all firearms and their law-abiding owners into evil entities to be ostracized, regulated and banished from society? Should you be compelled to turn in your matches because of the acts of an arsonist; or to turn in your steak knife because of the acts of a slasher; or to turn in your car because of the acts of a drunk driver?
Of course not. But that is what some would have you think.
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I was watching CNN, Cooper Anderson or whatever his name is, had a pro-gun guy and an anti-gun guy on his show. The pro-gun guy made this exact point and the anti-gun guy had nothing to say except that it was ridiculous. He absolutely could not make an arguement against what the pro-gun guy was saying. The pro-gun guy brought up a few of these incidents where the shooter was stopped by a law abiding citizen that got his gun and stopped the shooter. We NEVER here about this though. NEVER!! Anti-gun advocates just like to make blanket statements that all guns are bad, get rid of them all. They never see incidents like those mentioned in this article where lawful citizens stopped further killing and bloodshed by using their guns to stop the bad guy. What a joke! 
