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		bogomipz on Oct 21, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ex-NSA Contractor Stole at Least 500M Pages of Rec... "If you want to read about the numerous self defense instances, you'll have to read about it from the gun lobby." You want to complain about "media embellishments" and inaccurate coverage but then you suggest I should use the most powerful political lobby in the US as a news source? There's no embellishment there? That's an unbiased news source? Just a cursory glance at some recent media outlet coverage of self defense shootings: http://www.live5news.com/story/31972984/ncpd-investigating-o... http://www.ktnv.com/news/rtc-bus-driver-says-shooting-was-in... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/02/naked-man-shot-chok... There is no shortage of them. So your assertion that media "only" reports bad use of guns is simply untrue.

madengr on Oct 21, 2016 [–]

Not as a news source, but a news aggregator. The self defense shootings are buried as a 2nd tier link on a web site, or back of news paper. Crime is on the front page. Of course the gun lobby does not highlight crime or negligent shootings, so I'll give you that.

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