Here's a better analogy (or just an analogy):
It would be inane to constantly be posting articles along the lines of "Flight from Bakerfield to Seattle lands safely" or "Except for that one annoying baby, Toronto-Havana flight is without incident". Things working the way they should be is not news. However when things don't work the way they should be working, as in "Flight from Sao Paulo to Paris crashes over Atlantic Ocean with all aboard killed" or "All Boeing 787s grounded due to mechanical problem", then that is news. Management by exception, you know. My father used to harp on about that when I got a B in one class and I tried to point out all the other As I got. Still does, actually. But he's right.
But it's still deceiving people by altering their perceptions of how frequently things go wrong. And it wouldn't be a problem people just did their own research and not rely on the TV news to do their thinking for them.
Also, doesn't it bother you about the politicians calling for these restrictions, they are surrounded, on a daily basis, by thousands of armed guards? And these guards carry actual machine guns, which are, in the anti-gunners' imaginations far more menacing than semi-auto weapons?
