Nothing to See Here: "There's no way I could have fought him off"

Every­body knows I watch MSNBC and Morn­ing Joe every day so I tend to see what MSNBC reports, it has been all “guns are evil” all the time.

I quoted Glenn’s story from last week about the mother who with 6 shots and 5 hits failed to kill the attacker who pur­sued her and her chil­dren to an attic crawl space and won­dered aloud why it wasn’t cov­ered but I found an ear­lier story much more inter­est­ing: Here is the video

Here is a quote from a blog post on it:

When momma’s got a gun and her two daugh­ters can quickly lay their hands on a butcher knife and an axe, you’ve become the very def­i­n­i­tion of “fail­ure in the vic­tim selec­tion process.”

If you make it too expen­sive and too dif­fi­cult for mama to get that gun then her house is trans­formed from a “fail­ure in the vic­tim selec­tion process” to as Larry Cor­riea calls it: “hunt­ing pre­serves for inno­cent people”

There are inter­est­ing quotes in the story as well:

Lewis told the sta­tion one of the respond­ing police offi­cers said it would have been a dif­fer­ent sit­u­a­tion if she hadn’t been armed.

“One of them said we would be writ­ing up a dif­fer­ent report if she had not had that gun,”

and this:

“There’s so much talk about ban­ning guns and gun con­trol but they’re for pro­tec­tion,” she said. “There’s no way that I could have fought him off.”

Inter­est­ing points, but to me the most inter­est­ing thing I see from the story and video above is the lower left hand cor­ner of this screen shot:

NBC

This is an NBC affil­i­ate, that means that who­ever at NBC is in charge of screen­ing local shows for pro­mo­tion decided that this par­tic­u­lar story was not worth pro­mot­ing nation­ally, par­tic­u­larly dur­ing an elec­tion year.

I sub­mit and sug­gest that there are plenty of these sto­ries. I fur­ther sug­gest that net­works have for years made a deci­sion to sup­press their own affil­i­ate sto­ries if they are con­trary to their mes­sage on guns.

Move along, noth­ing to see here, cue Frank Drebin:

Update: Noth­ing to see in the 10 sto­ries from 2013 at Nice Deb posts either