Les Jones

All those articles by reporters going shooting for the first time

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 | Guns, Media Behaving Badly, Quotes |

“WTF? 39% of americans are gun-owners; 67% report having fired a gun. It’s not that unusual of an experience! By contrast, only 4-10% who are vegetarian, about 5% who are gay. How come there are no WaPo articles about what it’s like to eat organic cous cous for the first time? Or the first time cruising a truck stop?”
– Abdul on Reason

Too funny, though all of those articles about reporters firing a gun for the first time have been incredibly beneficial for gun owners. The experience tends to change the perspective of the reporters forever, and they almost invariably portray shooting in a positive light.

And the truck stop thing is stereotyping, which is wrong, except when it’s about white Southerners when they vote for Republicans.

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