this one<\/a>, the gun \u201cwent off\u201d and shot him:<\/p>\nThe subtle difference is the PiPress article makes it sound as if the firearm can spontaneously discharge at any time; the implication is it\u2019s too dangerous to have one around so we should ban them all, for the children.<\/p>\n
What media bias?<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
There may be no subject on which the media is both less balanced and less competent than firearms.<\/p>\n
For exampe, the media meme that George Zimmerman “had a round in his chamber, his hammer cocked and his safety off” when the confrontation with Trayvon Martin started.\u00a0 He was carrying a Kel-Tec 9mm.\u00a0 It’s a double-action only pistol, a type I hypothetically might have a lot of experience with.\u00a0 You can’t cock the hammer, and there is no safety<\/em>.\u00a0 And of course he had a round in the chamber; that’s where they belong – provided you don’t have a cocked hammer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Compare the headline in the paper where the incident actually happened with the headline in the local paper. In this one, the guy shot himself by accident: In this one, the gun \u201cwent off\u201d and shot him: The subtle difference is the PiPress article makes it sound as if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37282,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37277\/revisions\/37282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}