Irony: CBS Hails Australia’s Massive Gun Confiscation After Story on Surging U.S. Gun Sales

Curtis Houck | December 8, 2015
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In what certainly won’t be the latest case of irony in the liberal media, Tuesday’s CBS Evening News immediately pivoted from a full report on surging gun sales in the United States following mass shootings to a piece prominently touting Australia’s massive gun control and confiscation initiatives carried out in the 1990's with only a brief footnote.

As soon as correspondent Carter Evans concluded his story on gun sales have climbed in the U.S. in the days following the San Bernardino terror attack, anchor Scott Pelley informed viewers how there are “some countries with no Second Amendment” that “have banned certain firearms after massacres.”