The media?
Not so much.
Thursday afternoon's headlines were littered with rhetoric about a shooter on Capitol Hill.
They were right, except not in the way we've come to understand these headlines.
An unarmed mother with a history of mental illness drove a single car through a barricade near the White House.
Then, police shot the unarmed woman and she died.
The rage of gun-grabbers could once again be felt as headlines across the major news outlets of America had to be changed once again. The "intruder" didn't have a gun. In fact, she had a son with her and that's about it.
I'm not saying police officers didn't have a right to shoot her. I'm just saying the media overplayed the "chaos" of the situation to hyperbole, once again striking firearms fear into the hears of the uneducated electorate.
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