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In another story I’m insanely happy to report on, two women gun owners have not once this week, but twice saved lives by shooting and killing deranged assailants who clearly intended to unveil carnage. You probably won’t hear about those stories on the anti-2nd Amendment media channels, however, but you will hear it here, where we actually have the balls to defy the woke zombie hoards.
Two women made waves this week with their heroism in the face of violent threats. I’ll break these two stories down individually.
In a case that’s just as important to those hoping for more gun control as those who support deregulating gun sales in America, a hero is likely to go unsung in headlines around the country.
This particular hero was a woman who chose to go unnamed in the news covering the incident where she saved countless lives before a shooter could even injure a single bystander.
It all happened at a graduation party in Charleston, West Virginia, when a man named Dennis Butler reportedly appeared with an AR-15 style and started firing into the crowd, which included students and their families. The unnamed woman who was lawfully carrying her pistol, fired on Butler before he was able to injure anyone at the event.
According to police who responded to the scene, Butler had not only been stopped in the area for speeding and given a warning that children lived in the apartment complex. He also reportedly had “an extensive criminal history.”
Just looking at the list of news publications that covered this story, all that can be found on my initial search were Fox News, Breitbart, Yahoo, USA News, The Blaze, USA Today, and The Police Tribune. Everything else included local stations and independent pubs like blogs and syndicated digital rags. And of those major media outlets, all of them happen to be right-leaning publications that support and report on lawful gun ownership.
Nowhere to be found, however, were any reports of this story from NPR, CNN, Grist, The Intercept, FiveThirtyEight, Vox, Novara, HuffPost, The NYT – not even the AP. There were so many publications that refused to cover this story on the left side of the mass media divide that I will suffice it to say that the pattern is clear.
What is that pattern? Well, it’s the same as the message: Lawful gun owners in this country stop deaths and violent crime.
Want another example? Awesome, because that’s exactly where this story is going.
In a second story this week of a woman refusing to become either a statistic of violent crime, or another victim left behind the leftist agenda to keep America ignorant to instances of guns saving lives, ABC Action News reported that a home invader has been shot and killed.
A Clearwater, Florida woman woke up to find her 26-year-old neighbor, Justin Wright, in her bedroom. She claims that Write had broken into her house and began attacking her by the time she retrieved a legally-owned firearm and shot him
[Q&A audio]
For the full audio from the Q&A session with the police chief investigating the shooting, stay on after my outro and I’ll include that on the podcast.
Obviously the emotional state of the victim in this case was of concern. It was asked about several times both by reporters at the Q&A with the chief presiding over the case, as well as on the scene when nearby residents were interviewed.
I don’t recall ever hearing news reporters asking about the emotional state of men who shoot their intruders in their homes, but I’m sure that’s just a simple flop on the media’s part. I’m sure it has nothing whatsoever to do with the social expectations that men be emotionless soldiers in times like these.
Not to take this too far on a tangent, but I’m curious if women are finding that they’re slightly offended at the notion that they are expected to be frail and soft, and it’s a complete shock when they kill a home invader. Or if they’re at all shocked that the reverse expectation is true of men who undergo the exact same scenario.
Just food for thought. But I think we should be applauding all the efforts of all those who defend themselves and their neighbors and loved ones, and caring for the stability of everyone in the aftermath of such situations equally.
Call me crazy, I guess. It’s just something I noticed. I hope you did too, since I’d like to think that you’re all very critical media consumers that think for yourselves, rather than letting mass media at large do your thinking for you.
Also, you may find another thing interesting about that Q&A with the chief that I’m stitching onto the end of this podcast: I never heard the chief mention the race of the suspect.
And what’s even more surprising, no one from the reporter’s pool asked that question either. In fact, there were no questions about the man’s description at all – how tall he was, if he was a small man who wasn’t able to handle himself in the scuffle; whether or not he was a large man, and therefore more questions might have surfaced about any serious injury to the woman.
Even though the perpetrator has a criminal history in other states, as confirmed by the police chief, there are also no mugshots of that man on the news report.
One thing you’ll benefit from knowing about the video taken from the neighborhood where this took place, is that every resident in the area recorded for the report happened to have been black.
There were also several questions that might have eluded to the man’s motivations in the breakin – say, a sexual motivation, or perhaps a burglary. And yet, still, no mention of race.
Those of you who have heard my reports in the past, know that I’m not trying to spark an anti-race sentiment in these stories, but rather an ethical journalism debate. Ask yourselves the following question,
When the public is forced to do their own research, including filing public records requests, to find out all the details of the news that affects them in their areas, history has proven that the vast majority of people simply won’t make the effort. But that’s the job of the media in the first place. So, why have we started reporting stories that only report the facts that support a woke narrative?
Okay, that’s my soapbox for the ethical journalism debate. But let it be known that I’m extremely proud of this mystery woman who stood up and shot this man to protect herself, while exercising her Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. She should be applauded, no matter her race, and technically also no matter her gender. But I’d still like to see more cases where women like her show the country why private gun ownership is still important.
Additional Win in Women Saving Lives This Week
And since I’m celebrating great women doing good things in the world, why not celebrate the valiant efforts of another?
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This time, a Latina swimming coach from Team USA, dove in to rescue a female artistic swimmer by the name of Anita Alvarez, who fainted in the last half of her performance, and sank to the bottom of the pool in front of a live, viewing audience.
According to a statement by her coach, this was not the first time that the two-time Olympian had to be rescued from fainting in the water. The last time took place at the Olympic qualifying event in Spain.
Probably the most compelling part of this story, however, were the photos that emerged. Just looking at them, they are both heartbreaking and sobering at the same time. You’re basically looking at a woman who looks like she’s died, but in the stillness and buoyancy of the water, the true, lifeless form of the human body can be seen in its full glory.
There are several links in the article to this podcast where you can find those photos, as well as to an interview with the man who took them. Very interesting story there.
Also, just an FYI, this story was plastered all over NPR and HuffPost, whose coverage of female heroes, and even trans-swimmers, is quite present on the web.
Ahh, balanced journalism at work.
That’s it for This Week in Guns. Be sure to let me know what you think about this new segment by finding my contact details in the show notes. And also be sure to keep listening after the outro to hear Police Chief Slaughter’s Q&A with the reporters about the harrowing story of a female gun owner who ridded the world of another scumbag who had no business breathing your air.
UPDATE: There’s been a development in the story of the Butler killing – Even though it was finally covered days late by a handful of left-leaning news publishers, Butler’s photo was never posted with the story. LIN learned just this morning that there is only one source for Butler’s photo, which was only available via the Twitter Original Post. When his race was revealed to be black, it drew some questions into why WBRZ refused to report on that aspect of the story.
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