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# How does it feel to be a journalist from an NRA-supporting family?
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2018/03/nra-guns-journalism-usa/
- Published: 2018-03-07T11:37:19.000Z
- Updated: 2018-03-07T11:37:19.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: culture, Journalism, reporting, USA

This is a thought-provoking piece from a [journalist who grew up in an NRA member family](https://medium.com/@kelliannejones/im-a-journalist-and-the-daughter-of-an-n-r-a-member-why-it-s-time-to-tell-my-story-9782ae97aad9?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) in the USA:

> My father’s interest in guns began as a young man who saved up to buy 60 acres in the Maine wilderness where he could hunt, inspired by tales of Daniel Boone. When he had a family, guns morphed into a way to defend his wife and children in a town without a readily available police force. We always had an N.R.A. sticker on the back of our truck. I didn’t think much about it.

In essence, it’s a plea for empathy and sophistication in our reporting. She is troubled by the media portrayal of NRA members as:

> being complicit to mass murder. N.R.A. members like my father are being called “evil,” “scared, paranoid, radicalized,” and equated with the KKK.

Clearly, guns and shooting in the US are a tremendously emotive issue, especially at the moment. But it’s a timely reminder – especially to those of us who live outside the US and don’t really understand the culture about guns – that stereotyping is rarely a useful contribution to reporting.