Disney-owned ABC’s The View just got a swift public fact-check after actress Pam Grier delivered a tearful anecdote on the show, claiming her mother shielded her young eyes from the sight of a lynched person hanging from a tree while growing up in mid-20th-century Columbus, Ohio. The story, meant to underscore racial trauma, quickly unraveled under scrutiny—historical records, local archives, and demographic data from Ohio in the 1950s show zero documented lynchings in Columbus or anywhere in the state post-1937. Fact-checkers like Grabien Media and social media sleuths unearthed that Ohio hadn’t seen a single lynching after the Great Depression era, with the last one occurring in 1934 in Canton. Grier, born in 1949 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, did move to Columbus young, but her timeline doesn’t align with any such event; it’s a potent example of how emotional narratives can eclipse verifiable facts, especially on platforms eager to amplify them.

This isn’t just celebrity memoir gone awry—it’s a masterclass in media malpractice that the 2A community should dissect with glee. The View’s hosts lapped it up without a blink, yet they’d eviscerate a gun owner’s unverified self-defense story in seconds. The irony? Lynching eras were defined by unchecked mob violence and disarmament of minorities, where sheriffs looked the other way and federal protection was a joke. Fast-forward to today: armed citizens in places like Ohio wield the ultimate shield against such lawless horrors. Post-2020 riots proved it—defensive gun uses spiked, saving lives from modern mobs. Grier’s tall tale, if unchallenged, fuels the left’s disarmament playbook: exaggerate historical victimhood to justify stripping self-reliance today. But facts don’t care about tears, and neither does the Second Amendment—it’s the great equalizer, born from tyranny’s ashes, ensuring no tree ever hangs with impunity again.

For 2A patriots, the takeaway is crystal: when media peddles unchecked sob stories to erode your rights, hit back with history and data. Demand the same scrutiny they apply to us. Pam Grier’s fumble exposes their house of cards—keep your powder dry, your facts straight, and your AR-15 loaded. The View might fact-check poorly, but we fact-check to protect freedom.