Mother Jones’ Latest Claim Has Gun Owners Laughing

By Jenn Jacques

Oh, Mother… Jones, what the fresh heck is this steaming pile!? and what is that featured image?!

To help wee-wee the gun control agenda up in response to the continued spike in gun owners and concealed carry permit holders, Mother Jones’ writer Bryan Shatz boldly declares in one hell of a sensationalized headline Only 3 In 5 Gun Owners Have Received Firearms Training!! Ahhh, everybody run for your lives!!

Just kidding, he’s full of shit. The first line of his own article disproves his headline:

Forty percent of America’s gun owners have not received any formal firearms training.

But even that’s not quite truthful either.

Shatz’s article is in reference to a brief report funded by the Fund for a Safer Future and the Joyce Foundation, both advocates of gun control, which reports that a nationally representative survey conducted in 2015 found that “firearm owners with formal firearm training has not meaningfully changed since two decades ago”, further clarifying that “training programme contents vary widely.”

Ah-ha! So you mean that a) some people may not refer to their training as “formal”, b) since the results are based on a voluntary survey, numbers are likely …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms