HOLLYWOOD'S BIAS AGAINST GUNS & TRUE GUN FACTS - JOHN LOTT

John Lott
Premiered Sep 5, 2019

Hollywood pushes endless myths that demonize guns and gun owners. Here are just a few:

MYTH: Guns are more likely to do harm than good.
REALITY: Guns are used at least hundreds of thousands of times a year for self-defense, far more often than they do harm.

MYTH: Police want citizens to avoid guns.
REALITY: Police know that armed citizens deter criminals and reduce crime.

MYTH: Criminals often use machine gun to outgun cops
REALITY: Machine guns have been banned for decades, and there have been just two cases of machine guns being used for murder since the 1930s.

MYTH: Gun owners are often bigoted vigilantes who do more harm than good
REALITY: Gun owners, and neighborhood watch programs, have been shown to reduce crime rates.

MYTH: "Gun-free zones" successfully disarm criminals
REALITY: Criminals ignore gun-free zones while good people generally obey the law, turning them into sitting ducks. When good people carry guns anyway, they've often stopped mass shootings.

In all these cases, Hollywood bias endangers lives by misleading people on guns.