Americans Aren't Buying
The Left's 'Gun Control'

By Larry Keane. April 23, 2021

Those hawking 'gun control' like an infomercial pitchman can't understand why no one wants what they're selling. It's like snake oil. From President Joe Biden to Congressional Democrats, they claim it will cure everything from freckles to skyrocketing crime rates.

What they're really trying to sell is the failed ideas in a recycled glass bottle covered with a new label. Americans know this and they're turning up their noses at the cure-all con.

Newsweek reported the Pew Research Center ranked support for gun control lower now than it was in 2019. When the think tank asked Americans in 2019 if they supported stricter gun control, 60 percent said yes. Today, it dropped seven percentage points. Just 53 percent said they would support them today, even as Democrats in Congress shout for 'gun control' and President Biden pitches fraudulent claims about gun sales from the White House.

The Nose Knows

President Biden was caught by The Washington Post selling his own gun control snake oil. He claimed in his remarks standing next to Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga that gun control was a forgone conclusion by even the gun-owning American community.

"The folks who own weapons, the folks who own guns, they support universal background checks," President Biden claimed. "The majority of them think we should not be selling assault weapons."

Setting aside the president's purposeful conflation of automatic firearms for semiautomatic rifles, The Washington Post awarded the president "Two Pinocchios." .....

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