Back in October, I covered a Gallup poll that showed the majority of Americans
don't support a handgun ban. At the time, only 27% of Americans said they would support such a ban. Two studies covered by Legal Insurrection later that month
revealed that the Obama Administration's renewed push for stricter controls and limited carry actually runs contrary to the social science of controlling violence and keeping people safe.
The thing is, you'd never know it with the way the mainstream media covers issues like gun control, urban violence, and the Second Amendment.
The scope and tragedy of deaths due to gun violence aren't just
fodder for "very special episodes" of shows like Dateline---they're chum in the water for an opportunistic media determined to forward the interests of anti-gun, pro-regulation activists. Case in point: in the wake of the Umpqua Community College shooting in Rosebud, Oregon, the New York Times
unleashed an apparent expose on Sheriff John Hanlin, drawing out his past, pro-gun thought crimes and using them to turn the conversation away from mental illness and toward the Brady Campaign's push for Hanlin's firing---and a strict, anti-gun agenda.
We saw it coming from a mile away, but that doesn't make it any less frustrating. We as conservatives have learned not to trust the media when it comes to reporting on guns---which is what makes this next video so refreshing.
Atlanta-area journalist Ben Swann
has committed a cardinal sin: he looked directly into the camera and defended the Second Amendment.
Watch: