More TV Police Shows Bias on Guns: Yet CBS’s Blue Bloods shows more criminals using machine guns

In actual life, criminals typically use machine weapons so hardly ever that a 2016 survey of jail inmates solely broke down the numbers for makes use of in crime of handguns (11.2%), rifles (0.8%), and shotguns (1.1%). There are few rifles, and the survey didn’t point out totally computerized weapons. The same discovering is on the market from the FBI UCR report, the place 2.6% of all murders contain rifles of any kind, and 0.3% of all murders contain unspecified “different weapons.” There’s a cause for that. Since 1934, there was just one potential recognized use of a civilian utilizing a machine gun in a homicide. And even earlier than 1934, they had been very uncommon.

This episode of CBS’ Blue Bloods reveals criminals utilizing machine weapons to attempt murdering an informant (Season 14, Episode 7, April 27, 2024).

Examples of comparable tv reveals will be discovered right here.

Blue Bloods, Season 14, Episode 7, April 27, 2024