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For decades we have seen one gun control myth after another used as excuses to restrict our Second Amendment rights. Yet here we are, when those rights are being gradually restored thanks to strategic court victories, when 29 states have adopted permitless carry laws, when more people own guns and more people are legally carrying them for personal protection, and the data shows violent crime involving guns is declining. Looks like we’ve been right all along, and the establishment media essentially is confirming it.
Alan Gottlieb
November 27, 2025
CRIME DOWN, GUN CARRY UP REFLECTS NATIONAL TREND | Citizens Committee For The Right To Keep And Bear Arms
More Guns, Less Crime. Or, as I have been saying for over 20 years, Just One Question.
Nearly all the information you get from the mainstream media is wrong it some way. It can be incomplete and misleading, it can be exaggeration, and it can an outright lie. I suspect a significant component of this is that society has created an evolutionary environment for this. Highly emotional information gets attention. Attention brings more money. Boring news providers go out of business.
I don’t know of a solution to this. The only partial mitigation I know of is to get your news from multiple sources. And even then, if the sources are all politically (or whatever “tribe” type) aligned you get amplification of the misinformation rather than correction toward the truth.
Reality is tough. Really tough.
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“Nearly all the information you get from the mainstream media is wrong it some way. It can be incomplete and misleading, it can be exaggeration, and it can an outright lie.”
There’s a reason I’ve always referred to it as “the 6PM propaganda broadcast.” It does, however, provide a useful litmus test: “Where did you learn that?” often tells you all you need to know about with whom you are conversing.
As Lord Acton pointed out in 1887, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” Hence you invite predation when you cede power. My research (I’m a Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science) confirmed that he was correct. Ask yourself – CAN YOU DEFEND YOURSELF IF ATTACKED??? Hence, the importance of concealed carry of a pistol, even a 22…