Incendiary Image of the Day: Common Sense Mass Shooting Control

By Dan Zimmerman

If it weren’t for Eugene Volokh’s counterbalancing column and the existence of MSNBC, you could say The Washington Post is Everytown for Gun Safety’s greatest mainstream media ally. Fortunately, the Post isn’t totally immune to factuality. To wit, this graph and the article that accompanies it, What Americans blame most for mass shootings (Hint: it’s not gun laws). In a Washington Post-ABC News poll taken just two weeks after the Umpqua Community College shooting, Americans – by an almost three to one margin – said mass shootings are more a reflection of problems identifying those who need mental healthcare than they are an indications that we have inadequate gun control laws. Just for reference, Gallup pegs the number of self-identified liberals in the country at 24%. Winning?

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