Militias on the Rise, But Where is Reporting of the Real Threat?

Want proof that there is a media bias? The mainstream media never stopped reporting on how Muslims in America felt under threat following 9/11. But now law-abiding citizens are being targeted by the same media again. And while the militia movement is nothing new it seems to be the boggy man out there to the mainstream media, but is it a real threat?

CNN recently did a profile of these groups, citing a Southern Poverty Law Center report that highlighted “Return of the Militias.” Now these groups may not be to everyone’s liking, but the question to ask is whether they’ve broken the law and are they a threat? Of course the media will point to one Timothy McVee, and that’s fair. But what the media downplayed the Muslim connection to Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan, despite early reports that he even yelled “Allah Akbar.”

In fact, according Rawstory.com, CNN’s Jim Acosta even states that gun control “is unrealistic in many ways, because the Obama administration and the Democrats know that it would be political suicide for them to go after gun control measures. Even the attorney general has indicated he won’t go back to the assault weapons ban enacted in the Clinton administration.”

While we should take this as good news, and proof that the government is listening to gun owners and upholding our rights, it is worrisome that the media casts this as a bad decision. The same media that is generally silent about any Muslim threat – real or otherwise – to this country.