Another Anti-Gun Columnist Admits “NRA Is Winning”

By Tim

Monday must have been a hard day for New York Times columnist Charles Blow, given the anti-gun, anti-NRA tone of his previous musings.

Two years ago, when the Senate voted down the gun control restrictions President Obama was pushing, Blow blamed it on the “Politics of Paranoia“. A contemporary Pew Research Center poll had found that 51 percent of Republicans approved of the Senate votes, and the way Blow figured it, that proved “how frightened of the government far-right Republicans are.” Never mind that 22 percent of Democrats agreed with the Republicans who opposed gun control according to Ammoland.

Last week, Blow attacked NRA’s Wayne LaPierre for criticizing Obama and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, saying, “America is moving forward, tilting and transforming, and the bulwarks of traditional powers [including the NRA and other folks Blow seems to not like] are crumbling.”

On Monday, however, Blow suddenly reversed himself, saying that “the N.R.A. appears to be winning” the perennial gun control debate.

What got NRA from “crumbling” to “winning” in four days–in Blow’s determinedly anti-gun mind, at least–were two articles published earlier this month. One, by the Washington Times, noted that U.S. …read more

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