Hey DailySignal listeners, Doug Blair here with a special bonus episode of the DailySignal

podcast.

I spoke with founderofthereelo.com and Firearms reporter Stephen Gautowski.

We discussed some proposed fire arm legislation, what might happen, and what we should be

doing to prevent any of these mass shootings from ever happening again.

Take a listen.

My guest today is Stephen Gautowski, founderofthereelo.com and a Firearms reporter.

Stephen, welcome to the show.

Hey, thanks for having me.

As a country, we have suffered through some pretty awful mass shootings over the past few weeks.

Some, however, have been critical of how the corporate media has been covering these types of

shootings. What are your thoughts on how the media covers these types of events?

Well, I think there's quite a lot of problems with how the media covers mass shootings,

but really just guns in general, there's just a complete lack of basic knowledge on the topic

of firearms, how they work, how they're regulated, what the politics even are around them,

why people oppose different policies that are often put forward in the wake of these shootings,

why people own guns, why different kinds of people, different demographics of people own

firearms. There's just so much ignorance, I think, on the topic, that it's something that really harms

the conversation around firearms because it's difficult to even talk about the topic if everyone

is coming from a completely different set of facts or completely different set of information.

On that note, does the media's coverage of these types of shootings affect the national debate

about gun ownership? Yeah, certainly. I mean, one thing I would say too is that the media

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