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Wednesday, March 7, 2001
The Libertarian Party said Tuesday that the media's "anti-gun bias is showing loud and clear as the latest high school shooting (two dead in California) is plastered all over every front page in America while last week's murderous college car rampage (four dead in California) was virtually ignored."
George Getz, Libertarian Party spokesman, said: "A disturbed 15-year-old California high school student kills two classmates with a gun, and it's front-page news and around-the-clock TV coverage. Last week, a disturbed 19-year-old California college student kills four classmates with a car, and it's a minor blurb in newspapers, and a 10-second clip on the news.
"What's the explanation for this, unless journalists are almost 100 percent against the Second Amendment and jump on any opportunity to demonize guns and exploit gun-related tragedies, while ignoring other, equally tragic crimes?"
In February, a 19-year-old student at the University of California at Santa Barbara plowed his car into a crowd of college students in Isla Vista, killing four and critically injuring one. Libertarians say that attack was downplayed in the media and caused no demands to outlaw cars.
"Why was one a major story in the eyes of journalists and the other an afterthought? The only plausible explanation is media bias," according to Getz.
"Journalists are taught to revere the First Amendment and scorn the Second Amendment. So they use their First Amendment rights to slant and distort the news to attack the Second Amendment. And as Americans rightfully mourn the two dead Santee students and unfairly ignore the four dead Isla Vista students, that media bias is on display for everyone to see," Getz said.
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