{"id":62927,"date":"2017-05-28T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62927"},"modified":"2017-04-28T22:23:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T03:23:54","slug":"but-dont-you-dare-say-the-media-has-a-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62927","title":{"rendered":"But Don’t You Dare<\/i> Say The Media Has A Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does this look scary?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’m pretty sure it was supposed to look scary. \u00a0It’s from Channel 5, last Friday.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press ran pretty much the same\u00a0headline on their story. \u00a0If I’m feeling charitable, I’d assume the web producer at Channel 5 was too busy and under informed to change the AP’s hed. \u00a0If I”m not feeling charitable – and let’s be honest, I’m not – we can assume Channel 5’s producer shares the same myopic narrative that the AP’s writer does, and shares the same desire to inflict fear upon the audience at the thought that\u00a0some Minnesota buyers\u00a0<\/em>might be able to buy guns without background checks.<\/p>\n

Shiver!<\/p>\n

Now For The Truth<\/strong>: \u00a0The truth is a little less scary; the BATFE has decided that Minnesota carry permits are sufficient\u00a0substitute\u00a0<\/em>for the NICS background check; when a\u00a0carry permittee<\/em> – who, by definition, is over 21, has no criminal record, has passed a background check and a training course on skills and legal knowledge – buys a gun, they don’t need to get the online or phone-in background check\u00a0in addition to\u00a0<\/em>their carry permit check.<\/p>\n

That’s\u00a0carry permittees\u00a0<\/em> – of whom there are a quarter million in this state, and whose rate of criminal offense is nearly two orders of magnitude lower than the general population.<\/p>\n

Not quite as scary-sounding when you put it that way, is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Does this look scary? I’m pretty sure it was supposed to look scary. \u00a0It’s from Channel 5, last Friday. The Associated Press ran pretty much the same\u00a0headline on their story. \u00a0If I’m feeling charitable, I’d assume the web producer at Channel 5 was too busy and under informed to change the AP’s hed. \u00a0If I”m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62927","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=62927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62929,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62927\/revisions\/62929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}