Left-wing media bias against lawful self-defense; some data

Our friends in the left-leaning media are eager to run stories about people who abused and tried to hide behind self-defense rights but were ultimately convicted of homicide.  The latest is ABC's 20/20 and the Vilkin trial. (ABC= Anything But Class). Of course, lawful, justifiable successful self-defense incidents will be ignored.  An analysis by the Wall Street Journal concluded that justifiable homicides have increased markedly in recent years and that there were 326 justifiable homicides in 2010.  It is unclear whether increased legal carrying, stand-your ground laws or something else is responsible for the increase.  The NRA's "Armed Citizen" column reports what appear to be justifiable homicides from media reports.  FBI Uniform Crime Reports data is likely to suffer from under-reporting.  Of course, this data does not reflect use of firearms (with or without firing) that stops crimes but does not result in death of an offender. Even the usually anti-gun federal CDC  has weighed in. “Self-defense can be an important crime deterrent,”says a new report by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Of course, this is not going to be reported by our friends at ABC.  For more on this topic see Wikipedia.