However, this group of people will tell you that it is the misguided and the criminals who kill others, and that guns just happen to be the instruments of choice. Most of the material that I found through the World Wide Web, list serves, and bulletin board discussion groups that these pro rights groups are using suggests that more gun laws will only harm the law-abiding citizen, thereby empowering these criminals and rendering the populous defenseless against the heathens. Australia recently enacted very strict gun laws and, according to Anti-Gun Control types, the violent crime rate has risen. Be it propaganda or truth, it is a convincing argument, and Pro gunners are quick to make reference to the happenings down under. I came across a great study by the Media Research Center which shows an overwhelming majority of what we see and hear on the news and on talk shows is pro-Gun Control.
Tragic stories grab headlines every day.
It is nearly impossible to get through one of these news flashes without hearing something about gun control. We are bombarded by news stories on a daily basis which highlight violence in our surrounding communities, and the message being sent, even stressed, by the media, according to the Media Research Center Report is that guns are the cause of all of this violence. So, here is this entity, which is supposed to be unbiased, drilling this message into our heads. They want the world to know that people, not guns, kill people, and that if the government decides to seize all legally-owned weapons, that crime would soar and we would live in a police state governed by Marshal Law. Some forms were better and more effective than others.