Apologies, Jeff. I used some really bad words in the link.

This is more of an entertainment-media bias than news-media bias item. Or maybe it's just innocent ignorance as a result of news-media bias:

In last night's episode of Arrested Development, Tobias wants to purchase a hunting rifle to control a wolf that has been terrorizing the city.

TOBIAS (handling a rifle): Isn't there a waiting period to buy this?

GUN SHOP CLERK: Two weeks.

TOBIAS: Isn't there some kind of loophole?

GUN SHOP CLERK: There is the 'gun show loophole.'

(dialogue paraphrased from memory)

In the next scene, Tobias has the rifle he wants, presumably from a gun show -- a magical sovereign place where local, state, and federal laws do not apply. Tobias then spots the 'wolf' (which is actually his wife Lindsay in a fur coat), and shoots her with a tranquilizer.

At the time, Lindsay is with pro-gun activist and actor "Moses Taylor," who is blamed for shooting her. Apparently, the tabloids have been spreading rumors that he is into hunting humans for sport.

Well, on the one hand, a gun will never shoot your kid for getting too close to his food bowl. On the other, if you get *really* drunk and angry and tell the dog to attack your wife, the dog won't do it.

Mostly, these statistics tell me what I already knew... that grotesque numbers of the people who own dogs, especially the various guardian breeds, have no business doing so.

This is along the same lines as Nobody Important's post.

I was channel surfing the other night and landed on Law and Order. The perky little blonde DA is talking with somebody in here office. They are talking about some police officers that had been murdered at the beginning of the show. They siad something to the effect that college students from New York (I believe that's where the show is set) are buying guns in the southern states where they are attending school and re-selling them back on the block. You see, according to the dialogue, the southern states don't have good enough gun laws/restictions. The unnamed person in this DA's office went on to say that they can buy as many handguns as they want at one time. He seemed quite shocked and appalled. Normally I like this show but that exchange irritated be quite a bit. One more for the "do not watch" list.