Morning Examiner: The Left’s epistemic closure on guns | WashingtonExaminer.com
“You do not ignore 90 percent of the American people on an issue of public safety,” MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough said the morning after the U.S. Senate voted down the Toomey-Manchin gun control bill. “Mark it down, this is going to be a turning point in the history of the Republican Party. … This party that killed this background check yesterday — this party is moving toward extinction.”
Scarborough was referring to a Washington Post poll purporting to show that 90 percent of the American people fervently supported the expanded background checks in the Toomey-Manchin gun control bill. That poll was widely cited by Democrats and gun-control activists as proof that the vast majority of Americans supported their gun control agenda.
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