Replies to post #13368 on The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

[haysaw]

I believe the misinformation is purposeful, it's sensationalism designed to impassion (mostly) the intellectually shallow. Fox News has cornered the market with that formula. Thank you for digging deeper and finding something closer to the truth.

As far as "jumping the gun", what a fitting trigger to illuminate this defective mentality: Gun sales have been extremely robust during Obama's presidency, as has been the rhetoric and fear mongering of some very popular Conservative talking heads and Right-Wing media outlets suggesting Obama plans to take guns out of the hands of law-abiding American citizens.

Americans have purchased some 88.5 million firearms since the start of the Obama presidency. By the end of his presidency, the number of private firearms in the U.S. will have increased by about a third, about 106 million firearms.

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/03/dean-weingarten/2016-shaping-up-to-be-biggest-gun-sales-year-on-record/

All told, coverage of gun control on Fox led to an additional 1.9 million background checks in the three months following the Sandy Hook shootings, and millions more over the course of Obama’s term in office. Those background checks, of course, represent far more than 2 million additional guns, though we don’t know exactly how many. Any coverage of gun control on Fox leads to additional sales, but when Obama is popular – and perceived to be able to actually do something about gun control – the effects go through the roof. Fox News is telling people that Obama is about to take their guns away, and America has millions more guns on the streets because of it.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2016/06/02/why-are-there-more-and-more-guns-in-america-blame-fox-news/

I'll close out by admitting this is not a TGDT story...sorry for contributing to the OT. Perhaps there should be a TNPH board (National Paranoia talking-Head wind) :)