BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is pointing to media hypocrisy in its reporting of at least ten attacks involving knives or hatchets, most of them fatal, yet there was not a single mention of “knife violence,” indicating an appalling double-standard in how violent crime involving firearms is routinely portrayed, whether by broadcast or print media.
“We checked ten different reports regarding fatal and non-fatal knife attacks, all over the country,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “and not a single report included the term ‘knife violence’ anywhere in the text. Yet pick up any newspaper, read any online report involving the criminal use of a firearm, and by the time you’re finished, you will have seen at least one reference to ‘gun violence.’
I can only conclude the media has a deplorable double-standard when it comes to reporting homicides involving guns, yet the victims are just as injured or dead.
“Underscoring this nonsense,” he said, “is the way the media is reporting the Department of Health and Human Services’ removal of a former surgeon general’s warning that ‘gun violence’ is a public health hazard. Gun ownership is not a communicable disease. Putting that warning on the HHS website was just one more effort by the Biden administration to demonize firearms and the people who own them.
“The term ‘gun violence’ was invented by the gun prohibition lobby in order to create the illusion that guns are bad, and that gun owners need to be carefully monitored as if they are carriers of some plague,” Gottlieb continued. “Sadly, newsrooms all over the map have embraced the term, making it part of their vocabulary, to the point that one might find multiple references in a single news report or editorial. Indeed, the frequency one sees ‘gun violence’ mentioned on the air, in print or during political speeches has reached the point of absurdity.
“In each of the stabbing reports we studied,” he observed, “suspects were identified and nobody remotely suggested the knife or hatchet involved was somehow responsible. Yet, criminal attacks, suicides, and mishaps involving firearms all routinely fall within the loose definition of so-called ‘gun violence.’ It’s ridiculous.
“While everyone seems so eager to restrict gun ownership,” Gottlieb noted, “literally anyone can buy a knife, no questions asked. What’s important is that neither guns or knives are the problem. It’s the people who misuse them. The antidote to crime is to punish the criminals, not penalize law-abiding citizens who have harmed nobody.”
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About Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
lf it weren’t for double-standards, the Ieft wouId have no standards at all.
For Christ’s sake, STFU! Don’t give them any damn ideas! Knife Rights dot org has been fighting the battle on restoring knife rights, which are restricted in many states and municipalities, for a long time. We just got switchblades legalized in Pennsylvania a few years ago, and it was a dem governor who signed it into law.
This article and CCRKBA’s statements are what some of us used to call “inmate on inmate violence”.
We have England as an example for how this works. Also, in many of the anti gun cities, knives are already illegal. This depends on definitions and descriptions just like firearms. Pistol grip, bayonet lug, barrel shroud, muzzle device, magazine capacity (and others) for guns, and blade length, assisted opening, switch blade, dirk, dagger, double edged, etc. for blade “weapons”. Eventually you’ll need a permit to buy a baseball bat, knitting needles, box cutters, or a garden trowel. Again, think of England and their whining about knife violence and regulating knives. One thing both sides agree on is the existence… Read more »
Face it the main stream media has made themselves irrelevant at this point because they are nothing more than a propaganda machine for the DNC with zero credibility.
The Militia isn’t going to repel tyrants with knives. That’s why knives don’t get their attention.
Careful. They might listen and we’d turn into britian.