Imagine the media as a rusty old revolver—once trusted to fire straight for truth, now jamming more often than not, with only 6% of Americans believing it still packs a punch for the public’s best interests. That’s the bombshell from recent polling highlighted by Breitbart’s John Nolte, where a measly 6% of U.S. adults express great confidence in journalists. This isn’t some fringe survey; it’s a Gallup-style gut check reflecting years of relentless bias, selective outrage, and outright fabrication that has eroded trust faster than a liberal fact-checker deletes inconvenient tweets. Remember the Covington Kids hoax or the endless Russia collusion fever dream? Those weren’t anomalies; they were the media’s house style, turning reporting into activism and leaving the public dodging more spin than spent brass at a range day.

For the 2A community, this distrust is pure gold—strategic high ground in the information war. Journalists with cratering credibility are like empty magazines when it comes to swaying public opinion on gun control; their fearmongering headlines about assault weapons or gun violence epidemics land with all the impact of a squib load. We’ve seen it play out: after high-profile shootings, polls show fleeting support for restrictions, but it evaporates as real data from the FBI and CDC reveals armed citizens stopping threats 2.5 million times a year (per Kleck’s landmark research). With only 6% buying the media’s narrative hook, line, and sinker, the path clears for pro-2A voices—podcasters, YouTubers, and citizen journalists—to dominate with unfiltered facts, bodycam footage, and stats on defensive gun uses that the MSM buries deeper than a suppressed SBR.

The implications? A media in freefall hands the Second Amendment its best shot at cultural revival. As trust hits rock bottom, normies are tuning out CNN for Colion Noir, ditching NYT op-eds for actual NFA trust documents. This isn’t just schadenfreude; it’s momentum. Gun owners, double down: curate your own feeds, arm yourselves with sources like the Crime Prevention Research Center, and watch as the Fourth Estate’s collapse reloads our fight for the rest of the Bill of Rights. The public gets it—journalists aren’t journalists anymore; they’re just another interest group with a byline. Time to chamber truth and fire away.