Gun Dealer Averts Sequel to Fort Hood Tragedy. Mainstream Media Underwhelmed.

The media used to love stories like “Man Bites Dog.” You know, stories that have a twist – role reversal, irony-enriched content, that sort of thing. And you’d think that with all the posturing of the ATF, the Brady Bunch, the bluster of Bloomberg and the like, that a story that shows a gun dealer to be a responsible citizen would be “newsworthy.” And you’d be wrong. Nope. In today’s media, the Meme trumps the Truth. Proof that global warming is NOT “settled science”? Blasphemy. Conclusive evidence that you can’t spend your way out of debt? Sacrilege. And a concrete example whereby a gun dealer helps foil another mass-murder tragedy? Who’d be interested in reading about that? Check out this story from our buddies over at the National Shooting Sports Foundation

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