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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

The Media Doesn’t Want The American Public To Hear About This Gun-Rights Group

By Philip Hodges

The media can report and comment on current events, as long as those events are easily categorized by labels – Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, etc. – and the narratives that describe these events are easily constructed and controlled by the media. As soon as something comes along that mixes up two [allegedly] diametrically opposed labels, they don’t know what to do with it. So, they ignore it.

Take for instance gun rights groups. The media often portray them as anti-government, militant extremists, or white supremacist, militia members. Open-carriers are portrayed as bullies who want to force their guns down other people’s throats. Concealed carriers are said to have a “hero complex.”
In contrast, members of the LGBT community are portrayed as constantly mistreated and persecuted – victims of hate crimes committed by straight, white males and an overall “heteronormative” society. Members of the LGBT community have been known on many occasions to commit “hate crimes” against themselves, knowing that the media will immediately jump to their rescue. Even when the story is revealed to be a hoax, the media is still there to protect them and remind viewers that these are very emotionally damaged people.

But what happens when you have a “gay” gun rights group like the Pink Pistols? And not only that, but following the Orlando shooting, membership in this particular gun rights group has apparently skyrocketed. From USA Today:......To Read More....

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