Martha Teichner reported on that Supreme Court decision on CBS' "Sunday Morning" on June 29, 2008.

The story was produced by Amiel Weisfogel and Jon Carras. In that story, the script came to the point where Teichner was telling the audience how many people in the United States support the right to own a gun and she contrasted that with how many are killed each year in the U.S. by gunshot. The quote on CBS was "More than seven-out-of-ten Americans agree with the Supreme Court ruling, that the second amendment does guarantee the right to own a gun." The story had a graphic stating "73% of Americans believe the Second Amendment guarantees the right of individuals to own a gun."  She than reported, "here's another statistic: approximately 30,000 Americans are killed by guns ever year."

While there is nothing fundamentally wrong with what she said, unless you're paying attention you would get the feeling more people are getting killed than support the right to own a gun (73 vs. 30,000). The truth is, if the numbers are presented on the same scale: 219,730,000 people support the right to own a gun while 30,000 were killed by a one. Or put another way, 73% support the Second Amendment and .00009% were killed by a gun.

Granted 30,000 is a large number but more people are killed in the U.S. by car accident every year (43,000), tobacco related deaths (400,000), and alcohol related deaths (85,000) than were killed by guns.

So what's the big deal?  This is another example of the media (who generally don't support the idea of armed Americans) using facts and figures to support their political point of view.