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As predicted, ABC's 20/20 show tonight was a propaganda piece on guns.  20/20 has a history of wearing their agenda on their sleeve and they don't even pretend to be unbiased.

So let the fun begin:

20/20 asks children what President Obama should do about guns.  While the kids were cute, implying that little kids have the maturity to determine our country's policies on freedom is just plain silly.  But the anti-gun modus operandi is to use emotion and not logical thought when it comes to guns and 20/20 didn't break out of the mold.

They played up the "gun show loophole" myth during the show, never mentioning that there is nothing you can do at a gun show that you can't do outside a gun show.  Nope, why confuse people with key information like that?

And then there was a segment where they gave Omar Samaha, whose sister was murdered at Virginia Tech, $5000 and an hour to buy guns at the Richmond gun show.

The first gun that Omar purchased, from someone standing in line, was a Glock.  20/20 then says that it was chilling that he was sold that gun, since one like it was used to kill his sister.

A Glock?  That probably the most common handgun in America.  Gee, what were the odds?

He then proceeded to buy various rifles and shotguns over that hour.

Image the horror - here was an adult buying legal products and in quantity!  Guess 20/20 never shops at Costco.

20/20 completely misses the point that criminals are always going to get guns and gun control laws aren't even going to slow them down.

20/20 also did a segment where a shooter opens fire in a college class room with an airsoft gun.  They have one or two students in the classroom who are armed and get to fire back.

While they made an attempt to simulate a real situation, I wasn't impressed.  The shooter in real life would have been dodging and weaving to avoid getting shot himself.  Or, based on several incidents, including Virginia Tech, would have killed himself once he hit resistance.

The shooter was just too unconcerned to be believable.  I'm sure that was largely because he knew this wasn't really going to die if he was hit with an airsoft gun.

While 20/20 pointed out that the students didn't seek cover, but just stood up and started shooting in place, a persons instincts to get to cover would be different if someone is shooting a real gun at at them.

And MOST IMPORTANTLY, 20/20 conveniently didn't point out how many students would have survived because of the major distraction the armed students provided for the shooter.  That was HUGE.  But they didn't even bring it up.

Instead 20/20 concluded that since the armed students might not have survived this surprise attack or there might have been some collateral damage, that everyone would be better off unarmed and trying to flee or playing dead.

Yeah - we saw how well that technique worked at Virginia Tech.

One other aspect 20/20 didn't touch on:  at many of the school shootings, people in classrooms could hear gun shots from other rooms.  With armed students that would provide time to setup an ambush for the bad guy as soon as he walks into the classroom.

Jack Rumbah, with Suarez International, setup just such a scenario last year in a class using airsoft guns.  The result was the bad guy got creamed every time, with little or no harm to the students in the class room.

We're better of unarmed and helpless?  Sorry 20/20, you go right ahead and follow your own foolish advice, but I'll take my chances with a gun in my hand.