• March 28, 2024

“Conservative” Dallas Paper That Endorsed Hillary Now Pushing Gun Grabbing

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You probably remember during the presidential campaign that much ado was made of the Dallas Morning News endorsing Hillary.  The first time in history the paper endorsed a democrat.  Now the same paper wants to take your guns away.  Who would expect that from a “conservative” paper?  The paper may have at one time been a conservative paper.  No one seems to be explaining why.  But since I am a WMI (Weapon of Mass Instruction) I’ll tell you.  The paper hired a new editor.  In 2014, the DMN hired the first editor from outside the paper in almost four decades.

The editor’s name is Mike Wilson.  Wilson came from the 538 website, where he was the managing editor.  You all are familiar with 538 aren’t you?  That’s Nate Silver’s site where he made terrible predictions on the 2016 election, which favored Hillary Clinton.  The 538 site is owned by ESPN.  Getting the idea yet?  Wilson is a liberal who used the DMN ‘s reputation to push the narrative that even conservatives supported Hillary Clinton.  Now, he wants your guns.

From Breitbart:

The Dallas Morning News (DMN) editorial board lamented on Saturday that “clamor over the Second Amendment” prevents a gun control conversation from taking place.

According to DMN,  “guns are astoundingly more likely to be the cause of death [in the U.S.] than elsewhere.” And they bolster this claim by suggesting “33,000 Americans” are killed each year with guns. Hillary Clinton also made this same claim and was proven wrong. Michael Douglas and Alec Baldwin made this same claim to voice their opposition to the NRA, and they were proven wrong as well.

The actual number of homicides by guns range from 10,000 to 11,000.  The remainder of 20,000 to 22,00 are suicides.  Like any other liberal news site, they bend the truth to push their ideology.  

They blame conservatives and the NRA particularly for preventing a gun control dialogue. For example, following a mass shooting, DMN claims “[conservatives] tend to wave the [Second] Amendment like a battle flag, digging in their heels around an absolutist view of gun rights in this country that is dangerous, disingenuous and relatively recent.” And the NRA just keeps fighting, as exemplified by Wayne LaPierre’s statements about Clinton in the waning days of the presidential campaign:

There is no red line that President Hillary Clinton will not cross when it comes to attacking your rights and forcefully taking your guns and she dreams of twisting a knife in the heart of the one freedom that separates our nation from the rest of the world.

In the end, the DMN believes so much focus is placed on defending the Second Amendment that no room is made for discussing and passing more gun control.

DMN’s editorial board wrote:

A never-ending clamor over the Second Amendment has cast a deadly quiet over all talk of reforms that might make America and its gun owners safer. It’s a quiet we can no longer afford to permit.

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