Shocker: Mother Jones Admits Gun Control Not Popular in America

By Johannes Paulsen

Mother Jones is no friend of the right to keep and bear arms. This is exemplified by their willingness to embrace studies that twist data to endorse a favored political solution, and their investigative series on lead and crime which always seemed to veer a bit too close to confirmation bias, since it flattered the writers’ preconceived notions in favor of environmentalism and against guns. That’s why I was surprised when veteran MoJo writer Kevin Drum flatly admitted something that we’ve been aware of for years: there just isn’t a lot of support for the gun control side in the United States . . .

Drum’s piece is in response to an article by David Atkins at Slate, in which Atkins issues the de rigeur bleats about the political power of the NRA that has become part of the catechism of the left on issues related to firearms. In his piece, Atkins argues that “[t]he vast majority of Americans support commonsense [sic] gun laws.”

But Drum called out Atkins:

I’m not sure Atkins has this right. The problem is in the second bolded sentence: “The vast majority of …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns