Posted on 10/04/2017 8:41:07 AM PDT by rktman
As seen in at least ten separate NewsBusters posts in the past two days, the left has wasted no time politicizing the mass murder at the at Route 91 country music festival in Las Vegas to push hard for "gun control" — which ultimately, as anyone who has noticed what governors in Connecticut and New York have done in the past several years knows, involves total gun confiscation.
Thus, it is quite noteworthy that the Washington Post, of all places, published a Tuesday afternoon column by Leah Libresco, who asserts, based on months of time she and others spent researching the subject when at FiveThirtyEight.com, that "the case for the (gun-related) policies I’d lobbied for crumbled when I examined the evidence."
Libresco is a 2012 convert from atheism to Catholicism whose book, Arriving at Amen, is an intellectual inspiration.
Her discussion of FiveThirtyEight's gun research demonstrate similar rigor, including a willingness to accept findings that went against her preconceived beliefs (HT Instapundit):
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Aint it amazin’ an utterance against interest.
I’ve noticed that a lot of the liberal media have been lukewarm at best on this current democrat gun control push. I don’t know it is because they know with President Trump in the Whitehouse it’s a hopeless cause and not worth expending time and effort on a serious push. Or perhaps, it’s because they finally realized that gun control is toxic in the states democrats need to win in the 2018 midterms to have any chance of taking back congress, so they are basically trying to push democrats away from the issue
I’ve seen the usual Dem suspects all over TV yelling about more gun control, especially bulldog face John Lewis. Last year he led a Dem sit-in while Obama was in control. Never did hear how their outrage would translate to stopping mass murderers.
I am of the opinion that simply for the political theater, someone in the GOP should introduce a bill to prohibit members of the democrat party from owning guns.
Got this one from newsbusters so the search didn’t show it.
Those AHOLE leftists wanna kill 58 of us, AND THEN take away all the guns!?!? MOLON LABE!!
Gun grabber joe Manchin has been a constant companion of trump.. doesn’t that make you wonder? Even a little.
It’s never a good idea to pass legislation in emotional response to some traumatic event.
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