{"id":41354,"date":"2021-02-19T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41354"},"modified":"2021-02-19T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T17:00:40","slug":"television-is-a-powerful-tool-it-is-being-used-skillfully-by-the-political-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41354","title":{"rendered":"Television Is A Powerful Tool–It Is Being Used Skillfully By The Political Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Real Clear Politics<\/a> posted an article alerting its readers to the indoctrination in the coming television season. Entertainment\u00a0 is going political.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Last week, the Biden administration promised gun control groups<\/a> that it will soon roll out a massive push for limits on firearm purchases and other measures. President Biden reiterated that promise on Sunday. And the television networks aren\u2019t waiting to lay the groundwork for this effort.<\/strong><\/p>\n

CBS is in a full-court press for gun control on its evening entertainment television shows. The bad guys are always white supremacists who use machine guns \u2014 supposedly AR-15s \u2014 to commit mass public shootings. Criminals in Mexico supposedly get machine guns from the United States. A father\u2019s desire to protect his family only leads to tragedy when his daughter gets into the gun safe and uses the weapon in a mass public shooting. And guns in the home pose a danger for children. Gun registration is necessary for solving crime<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Does anyone actually believe that criminals will register their guns?<\/p>\n

The article also notes:<\/p>\n

NBC isn\u2019t to be left out, showing a woman who tried but failed<\/a> to use a gun to protect herself. Instead, her gun was taken from her and used to kill a police officer. The lesson is that owning a gun will only bring you grief.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s just in the first six weeks of the year. Every show gives an inaccurate impression about firearms, thereby helping in this push for gun restrictions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…\u201cMagnum PI\u201d has an episode<\/a>\u00a0where a 12-year-old steals his father\u2019s gun from a bedside table and accidentally shoots his 10-year-old brother. The message is that parents should be afraid of having guns in the home. But, in 2019,\u00a0there were 37 accidental gun deaths among children under 11 years of age<\/a> in the entire country. Most of those deaths involve shots fired by adult males, typically in their mid- to late-20s, who also have criminal records and are very likely to be drug addicts or alcoholics. With 43.8 million children under 11, the probability of a young child getting ahold of a gun and accidentally shooting another child is incredibly small.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The lessons from these entertainment shows are clear. Don\u2019t try to use a gun for protection, and it\u2019s better to not even think of owning one. Also, the biggest danger in present-day America is white racists with machine guns. Gun control advocates know Americans won\u2019t accept more gun control if given accurate information. It is bad enough that news programs provide only one side of this debate. But when Americans just want to be entertained, they still can\u2019t escape lies about gun ownership.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A friend once remarked to me that everything you see on television is there for a reason. At the time I thought he was paranoid. Now I think he may have been right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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