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Accuracy Is Not His Forte

This piece in the American Prospect by Peter Dreier who teaches at Occidental is par for the course for lefty drivel on guns. Let's start with the Title: The Virginia Shooting Isn't About Bernie. It's About The Right's Embrace Of Guns. OK. I agree that it's usually not very important to talk about the politics of a criminal. But the left has made such a fetish of the political leanings of some cherry picked criminals, we right thinking individuals point to the lefty leanings of a lot of recent mass murderers (in Alexandria, thank God, no one was killed) to set the record straight about the claims of right wing political violence, of which there is very little. Here , here , here , here , here , and here are but a few of the stories claiming, falsely, it's the political right that is to fear vis a vis political violence. The falsity is pretending ordinary crimes by individuals are actually politically motivated terrorism. Please. But back to Dreier. He...