Senator Chris Murphy Disputes Washington Post On Gun Control

By John Crump

By John Crump

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) is disputing the Washington Post Fact Checker that gave him “three Pinocchio” (this would indicate lying) for stating on CNN’s “State of the Union,” that stricter gun laws will reduce gun crimes. “What we know is that states that have tougher gun laws, that keep criminals from getting guns that keep those dangerous weapons like AR-15s out of the hands of civilians have dramatically lower rates of gun violence,” Sen. Murphy told the show

The Washington Post Fact Checking Department was quick to call him out on his misleading statements made during this TV interview. The first thing the Washington Post did was check the studies that Sen Murphy cited as his evidence. What The Post found out was that none of the studies even looked at crimes using AR-15s. It is unclear if Sen. Murphy read the studies himself and somehow got confused, or was just repeating talking points anti-gun groups fed him.

One Johns Hopkins University study on gun issues in Missouri that Sen. Murphy cited did not even show …Read the Rest

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