Posted March 2, 2016 8:51 am by Comments

By Jenn Jacques

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Hillary Clinton may have sailed past Bernie Sanders with a 48 point victory this past Saturday, but something interesting spun out of the polling stations.

The exit polls in the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary showed those who favored reducing gun violence over gun rights chose her by a 50 point margin, with 81% of those polled siding with Mrs. Clinton on gun control. Only 16% said protecting gun owner’s rights was more important, despite 41% of voters identifying themselves as gun owners.

Among the most curious of these gun-owners was a young man who jumped Sanders’ sideline to put his wind into Hillary’s sails. And his unbelievable story was a stark contradiction of every good southern country boy I’ve ever met.

Twenty-something Graham Holson pulls up to vote in Edgefield, S.C., in a jacked-up white pickup truck with a goofy pit bull riding shotgun. He claims he has “tons of guns – handguns, rifles, you name it.” A self-described white “country boy,” he also has a concealed carry permit, which means, “You won’t know when I’m carrying, which is how it should be.”

Yet Mr. Holson, a Sanders supporter, joined other primary voters, most of them African-American, in welcoming …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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