Former NPR Honcho Reverses Stance On Guns

By Tom Knighton

Few people ever take on the pro-gun control position from a platform of careful reason. If they switch from pro-gun to anti-gun, it’s almost always based on emotion rather than a rational look at the facts.

When people do look at the facts, they tend to do what former CEO of National Public Radio Ken Stern did.

During an appearance on “Morning Joe” to promote the book, guest host Willie Guest asked Stern how the trip impacted his stance on the issues.

The former National Public Radio chief mentioned gun control, noting that crime has dropped over the past two decades while gun ownership has spiked.

“The most extraordinary trend in modern American criminal history,” Stern explained. “At the same time, the number of guns have gone up.”

“Those two things aren’t correlated, but it’s clear we know how to drive down gun murders without gun control, and the question is why are we talking about gun control when there’s other things that we’ve been doing for 25 years that actually have reduced murders in this country by an extraordinary amount,” he continued.

Stern says he’s fine with a few aspects of gun control but says he doesn’t think they’ll have a significant …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms