Misinformation spreads around like wildfire through all sorts of media, which is why I only want the facts. I want an unbiased timeline of an event, I want statistics, and I want to see what something actually looks like. Misinformation is very dangerous, as history has taught us. Just look at Communist Russia or Socialist Germany. I encourage everyone to look beyond major media (and commercials), and to ask for strictly the facts and statistics. 

People use misinformation (and disinformation) to instill fear into others, so they could be blindly supported. It has happened over and over again, and continues to happen today. Fear is a very strong feeling that is often successful in roping someone into supporting (or not supporting) something. Sometimes, fear is justified, but it is usually not. 

There's certain pro-gun arguments I tend to avoid and disagree with that use fear. We can't take on the government with what we have. I do think Thomas Jefferson was right when he said the 2nd amendment protects the liberty of the people. But while I do think the government can be kept in check if the 2nd amendment is exercised correctly, the government could also carpet-bomb the country if it really wanted to, and there wouldn't be much we could do about it. 

At the same time, an armed civilian population is a safe civilian population. There's countless "good guy with a gun" stories. On average, 2.5 million civilians defend themselves using firearms every year according to the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/jclc/vol86/iss1/). Most, of the time, the gun was never even fired. Just the mere presence of a gun is enough to deter most criminals. I know a few people who defended themselves using a firearm. No one actually had to fire it, except for my grandpa's cousin who was being chased by an angry black bear.