Are you surprised by these facts?
Maybe it's because the TV networks are deliberately not telling you about them.
According to a January 5, 2000 special report by Geoffrey Dickens, Senior Media Analyst of the Media Research Center, "In 1997, criminologist Gary Kleck estimated that over 2.5 million people a year defend themselves from an assailant or burglar by exercising their constitutional right to bear arms.
Yet how many times did television networks report such acts?
In the past two years(2000-2002), out of 653 gun policy stories, exactly 12 times.
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