[RickLafayette]

The mainstream media’s sole purpose in reporting on devastating shootings is to drive their anti-gun political agenda that places innocent gun-carrying people and heroes in the same category as crazed-murderers.
This is why the general public is oblivious to statistical reality. Do you ever hear the media reporting that 99.9 percent of all guns in America are not used in violent crimes or that 99.8 percent of all guns in America are not used in crimes at all? No.

You also won’t see them report on these statistics:

 The ratio of guns used in situations of self-defense compared to crime is 4:1
 After guns were banned in Australia, crime rates spiked 44 percent
 98 percent of the time a gun is used in self-defense it isn’t shot
 Only 4 percent of guns used in crimes were obtained legally.

Additionally, the media avoids reporting the crime statistics of cities with the least gun control—the same cities whose crime rates are consistently and significantly below the national average. Why do we never hear Kennesaw, Georgia reported in the news?
The small Georgia city passed a law in 1982 that required each household to keep a loaded firearm. After the law was passed, burglaries dropped from 65 in 1982 to 26 in 1983, and down to 11 in 1984. In 2010, Kennesaw’s violent crime rate was 85 percent lower than the national rate. The property crime rate was 57 percent lower than the national rate.

The first gun control in America was to disarm blacks. The original term for "Saturday Night Special" used to be "Nig_gertown Saturday Night Special". When the Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed, in it, one provision outlawing Saturday Night Specials, the NAACP complained that it prevented lower income blacks from obtaining firearms to protect themselves.