In addition to ignoring stories that don’t suit their political agenda, in reporting instances of gun violence, these outlets also almost always overlook a key fact. In every incident that comes to mind, a bad guy with a gun is always stopped by a good guy with a gun: a policer officer and/or an armed citizen disarms the shooter either by shooting him or threatening to do so, or a police officer and/or an armed citizen threatens to shoot the gunman and the gunman saves them the trouble by shooting himself. Any way you slice it, a gun is involved in stopping the evildoer from carrying on his carnage.

The media is treating the Greenwood incident as something of a novel occurrence, but the CDC estimates defensive gun use to tally between 500,000 and three million cases each year. The Heritage Foundation maintains a Defensive Gun Use Database and reports the wide range in the estimated number of defensive gun use cases is because “most defensive gun uses are never reported to law enforcement” (gun users may find it unnecessary and/or detrimental to involve police), and because of the discordant way surveys are worded. Nonetheless, an average of eighteen national surveys found there are at least two million cases of citizens using firearms legally to defend themselves each year…