{"id":219943,"date":"2025-09-08T17:49:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=219943"},"modified":"2025-09-19T09:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:11:24","slug":"media-bias-hides-the-real-story-behind-mass-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/media-bias-hides-the-real-story-behind-mass-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Bias Hides the Real Story Behind Mass Shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a conversation with Steve Bannon on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/americasvoice.news\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"media-bias-hides-the-real-story-behind-mass-shootings\" title=\"Media Bias Hides the Real Story Behind Mass Shootings\">America\u2019s Voice<\/a><\/em>, Dr. John Lott said the latest mass shooting in Minneapolis reveals more about media bias and failed policies than about firearms themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-yoast-seo-table-of-contents yoast-table-of-contents\"><h2>Table of contents<\/h2><ul><li><a href=\"#h-gun-free-zones-as-targets\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"media-bias-hides-the-real-story-behind-mass-shootings\" title=\"Media Bias Hides the Real Story Behind Mass Shootings\" data-level=\"2\">Gun-Free Zones as Targets<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-mental-health-failures\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"media-bias-hides-the-real-story-behind-mass-shootings\" title=\"Media Bias Hides the Real Story Behind Mass Shootings\" data-level=\"2\">Mental Health Failures<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-armed-defense-as-deterrent\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"media-bias-hides-the-real-story-behind-mass-shootings\" title=\"Media Bias Hides the Real Story Behind Mass Shootings\" data-level=\"2\">Armed Defense as Deterrent<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-media-misdirection\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"media-bias-hides-the-real-story-behind-mass-shootings\" title=\"Media Bias Hides the Real Story Behind Mass Shootings\" data-level=\"2\">Media Misdirection<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-the-bottom-line\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"media-bias-hides-the-real-story-behind-mass-shootings\" title=\"Media Bias Hides the Real Story Behind Mass Shootings\" data-level=\"2\">The Bottom Line<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"On Bannon\u2019s War Room: To Discuss Minneapolis School Shooting\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1vOxMhy152Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-gun-free-zones-as-targets\">Gun-Free Zones as Targets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/lott-how-the-fbi-undercounts-good-guys-with-guns-stopping-active-shooters\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"media-bias-hides-the-real-story-behind-mass-shootings\" title=\"Media Bias Hides the Real Story Behind Mass Shootings\">Lott<\/a>, the shooter\u2019s manifesto explicitly stated he chose the school because it was a gun-free zone. Lott argued that this detail is consistently omitted from mainstream coverage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTime after time, diaries and manifestos explain why they pick their targets,\u201d he said. \u201cThey want to go to a place where victims can\u2019t defend themselves. But you\u2019ll never see the media admit that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lott pointed to a long list of killers \u2014 from Columbine to Buffalo to Nashville \u2014 who deliberately selected \u201csoft targets.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His view is that these criminals aren\u2019t stupid; they know more unarmed victims means more carnage, and more carnage means more headlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-mental-health-failures\">Mental Health Failures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Lott also underscored the role of mental health, noting that over half of mass shooters in the last 25 years were already seeing professionals \u2014 yet not one was flagged as a danger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He cited examples where killers easily deceived psychiatrists by denying violent intentions, a systemic failure that allowed them to slip through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like the Buffalo shooter, who told a teacher he planned to shoot up a summer school, but when referred to psychiatrists, &#8220;He told them, \u2018Look, it was a stupid joke. I shouldn\u2019t have said it. I\u2019m sorry. I won\u2019t do it again.\u2019 And the mental health care professionals basically just took him at his word.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lott\u2019s point: the system often relies on self-reporting, allowing would-be killers to conceal their intentions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-armed-defense-as-deterrent\">Armed Defense as Deterrent<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Lott argued the solution isn\u2019t disarming the public, but <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/virginia-emt-concealed-firearms\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"media-bias-hides-the-real-story-behind-mass-shootings\" title=\"Media Bias Hides the Real Story Behind Mass Shootings\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"61\">allowing trained staff to carry concealed firearms<\/a> in schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He pointed out that more than 10,000 schools nationwide already allow armed teachers or staff \u2014 and, according to his research, none of those schools has experienced a deadly attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/made-in-the-usa-meet-acme-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"media-bias-hides-the-real-story-behind-mass-shootings\" title=\"Media Bias Hides the Real Story Behind Mass Shootings\">Made in the USA: Meet Acme Machine<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uniformed officers, he warned, are too obvious a target. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf they\u2019re going to attack, who do you think they take out first? \u2026 One way to think about this is we have air marshals on planes. Does anybody think air marshals ought to be in uniform?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-media-misdirection\">Media Misdirection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Lott also accused the press of manipulating coverage to <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/mike-rowe-weighs-in-on-call-to-support-gun-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"media-bias-hides-the-real-story-behind-mass-shootings\" title=\"Media Bias Hides the Real Story Behind Mass Shootings\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"62\">support gun control<\/a>, whether by downplaying manifestos, misreporting firearms used, or framing events as \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d regardless of motive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy guess is the whole gun control debate that we have right now would be dramatically different if even once in a while the media would say why they picked the target \u2014 because they wanted to go to a soft target where they knew their victims couldn\u2019t defend themselves,&#8221; he explained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said editors have told him including such details would be \u201cpolitical,\u201d yet they regularly highlight the firearms used or speculate on how they were obtained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSaying that they picked a place where people were banned from having guns \u2014 is that more or less political than you going and calling it an &#8216;assault weapon&#8217;?\u201d Lott asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-bottom-line\">The Bottom Line<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For Lott, the lesson is clear: gun-free zones invite mass killers, media bias fuels bad policy, and disarming law-abiding citizens won\u2019t stop the next tragedy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, he says deterrence through armed defense, honesty about mental health failures, and a press willing to report uncomfortable facts are the real paths to safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong><em>*** <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\" 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