UNDERNEWS: Another reason liberals have bombed: guns

February 25, 2017

Another reason liberals have bombed: guns

Sam Smith - Living in the state of Maine, which has a low murder rate and a high gun ownership rate, I am reminded of yet another issue liberals don't want to face: they treat gun owners as the enemy.

This comes in no small part because liberals seem to think all gun owners believe the same thing as the NRA. Bust as Huffington Post pointed out last year:

According to Pew Research, 85 percent of people with guns in their home support universal background checks. Another more recent poll puts that number at 92 percent. A third poll found that 74 percent of NRA members supported mandatory background checks....A majority of gun-owners also support outlawing the sale of semi-automatic weapons and online sales of ammunition. Again, the NRA and their gun industry benefactors vehemently oppose these reasonable gun safety measures.

To get a different perspective on guns, we recommend our previously cited NY Times interview with Dan Baum, author of Gun Guys.

I've never owned a gun, but I've had relatives and friends who have and they are, on the whole, just as nice and rational as other folks.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...: "I've never owned a gun, but I've had relatives and friends who have and they are, on the whole, just as nice and rational as other folks."

You've never lived in the South, one takes it?
Nor New Hampshire for that matter?---The Live Free Dodging the Neighbor's Bullets, Or Die State.; February 26, 2017 at 8:43 AM

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