NRA TV personality Colion Noir. (YouTube/Colion Noir) In the days after a shooter killed 10 people at a Texas high school, National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch joined a chorus of conservatives in spotlighting a subject to blame that didn’t involve guns. “The media has got to stop creating more of these monsters by oversaturation,” Loesch said on the NRA’s television station, echoing remarks she made after the Parkland shooting. “I’m not saying don’t responsibly report on things as they happen. Look, I understand it. But constantly showing the image of the murderer, constantly saying their name, is completely unnecessary.” And on Thursday, Collins Idehen Jr., a host on NRA TV who goes by the pseudonym Colion Noir, took the organization’s media attacks even further. Noir spent the first half of a four-minute NRA video[1], part of a series that appeared to be sponsored by the gunmaker Kimber, lambasting the media for coverage that he said inspired other shooters through reporting about mass shooters’ backgrounds and motivations, and included their names in coverage. “These kids aren’t being inspired by an innate hunk of plastic and metal laying on a table, they’re inspired by the infamous glory of past shooters who they relate to,” he said. “And no entity on the planet does a better job, whether directly or indirectly, of glorying these killers, and thereby providing the inspiration for the next one, than our mainstream media.” Noir proposed a solution that would surely violate the First Amendment. “It’s time to put an end to this glorification of carnage in pursuit of ratings, because it’s killing our kids,” he said. “It’s time for Congress to step up and pass legislation putting
