Numbers Not Reported by MSM

The mainstream media certainly appears to have an anti-gun bias. How else can you explain the fact that the findings of a Harris Interactive poll aren’t getting much coverage? According to Personal Liberty Digest, the poll was conducted last month and found that only 45 percent of respondents actually want stricter gun control, down from 49 percent in 2008.

For those who like to pay attention to such things, 45 percent is a minority number, as in less than half of those responding favor more gun control. This is in contrast to what politicians and liberals in the media often try to imply when they say, “most Americans want stricter gun laws.” In other words they’re lying because 45 percent doesn’t constitute most.

But here are some other numbers that folks like Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, or Richard Daley, mayor of Chicago, probably don’t want you to hear:

“Moreover, slightly more than 30 percent of Americans say they have a gun at home today, for an estimated 42 million households. Furthermore, a staggering 80 percent believe people should have access to rifles or shotguns as well as handguns (74 percent).”

Aren’t politicians supposed to represent what the people want? Apparently to anti-gun zealots that doesn’t seem to matter.