Gun Control And The Politics Of Fear
By Cam Edwards
AP Photo/John Minchillo
Gun control advocates love to claim that gun owners are “fearmongers”. In their view the NRA “peddles fear” in order to drive up gun sales and gun ownership; either fear of being the victim of a violent crime, or the fear of more gun control. This quote from Everytown for Gun Safety’s federal media relations manager (in a HuffPost story alleging the NRA traffics in anti-Semitism) sums up the typical attack pretty well.
″[The NRA’s] leaders peddle conspiracy theories, fuel hatred and traffic in dog-whistle politics in order to incite fear and sell more guns,” Zucker said in a statement to HuffPost. “The NRA’s rhetoric has reached a dangerous new low, and Americans have had enough.”
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Source:: Bearing Arms
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