By Ashley Herzog
The only thing that stops a bad guy with
a gun is a good guy with a gun.
That statement, from NRA president Wayne
LaPierre, was immediately turned into a laugh line by the press, deemed
everything from “deadly spin” to “delusional” to “paranoid.” The New York Daily
News proclaimed that anti-gun cranks—oops, I mean “mental health experts”—who
had never met LaPierre had diagnosed him as crazy.
As someone who went to journalism school
and has worked in media for years, I’m used to this. Left-leaning editors and
reporters declare what “everyone” knows and “everyone” thinks, while pretending
to be objective. Their preferred method of slanting the news is covering
stories that bolster their worldview while completely ignoring others. Because
whether the “good guy” is a police officer or a private citizen, LaPierre’s
statement is absolutely true—and several incidents ignored by the media prove
it.
Two days after the massacre at Sandy
Hook Elementary School, a San Antonio man burst into the Mayan 14 movie theater
and began shooting, “sending panicked moviegoers rushing to exits and ducking
for cover,” according to MySanAntonio.com. But instead of becoming the next
James Holmes, the suspect was shot by an off-duty cop. Unlike the Aurora
theater shooting, the incident ended with only two wounded—thanks to a good guy
with a gun.
How many of you have…
Source: Town Hall
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