Mar 17, 2023
Television show bias against guns is never-ending. Except for two episodes on Paramount's Yellowstone, you won't see an entertainment television show with a civilian successfully using a gun defensively. Instead, something always seems to go wrong when guns are used defensively (from being fatally shot by the criminal without stopping the crime to getting in the way of police to continually having the gun stolen and used in a crime to an accidental shooting). In fact, after the Supreme Court's Bruen decision earlier this year, television shows seem to be showing more bad defensive gun uses than ever before. These episodes of NBC's Magnum P.I. (Season 5, Episode 3, February 26, 2023) and Chicago PD (Season 10, Episode 15, March 1, 2023) are no different. Both episodes show problems with defensive gun use. In Magnum P.I., a couple of criminals explain that they had to shoot and murder a homeowner who tried to defend himself with a gun. In Chicago PD, two robbers are scar