A former CEO of National Public Radio spent a year visiting America’s heartland and came away with a different perspective on gun rights.
.....He is an attorney and was deputy general counsel for the 1996 Bill Clinton presidential campaign. He joined NPR in 1999 and became its CEO in 2007. “He is a numbers cruncher and lawyer who helped stabilize NPR after years of rocky finances,” NPR reported, just after he was tossed out after a year and a half as CEO. During his tenure, the audience for NPR programs doubled. Stern, you see, embraced modern ways of getting the news out. NPR soon became a leader in podcasts and struck deals to deliver its content through smart phones.
....“I found an America far different from the one depicted in the press and imagined by presidents (‘cling to guns or religion’) and presidential candidates (‘basket of deplorables’) alike.”
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“Take guns,” he said. “Gun control is one of our most divisive issues, and there are legitimate points on both sides. But media is obsessed with the gun control side and gives only scant, mostly negative, recognition to the gun rights sides.”
In one chapter in his book, Stern discusses some of the more contentious disagreements about gun control.
“Take, for instance, the issue of legitimate defensive gun use (DGU),” he wrote, “which is often dismissed by the media as myth. But DGU happen all the time—200 times a day, according to the Department of Justice, or 5,000 times a day, according to an overly exuberant Florida State University study. But whichever study you choose to believe, DGU happen frequently and give credence to my hunting friends who see their guns as the last line of defense for themselves and their families.”
Eye Opening
.....He is an attorney and was deputy general counsel for the 1996 Bill Clinton presidential campaign. He joined NPR in 1999 and became its CEO in 2007. “He is a numbers cruncher and lawyer who helped stabilize NPR after years of rocky finances,” NPR reported, just after he was tossed out after a year and a half as CEO. During his tenure, the audience for NPR programs doubled. Stern, you see, embraced modern ways of getting the news out. NPR soon became a leader in podcasts and struck deals to deliver its content through smart phones.
....“I found an America far different from the one depicted in the press and imagined by presidents (‘cling to guns or religion’) and presidential candidates (‘basket of deplorables’) alike.”
....
“Take guns,” he said. “Gun control is one of our most divisive issues, and there are legitimate points on both sides. But media is obsessed with the gun control side and gives only scant, mostly negative, recognition to the gun rights sides.”
In one chapter in his book, Stern discusses some of the more contentious disagreements about gun control.
“Take, for instance, the issue of legitimate defensive gun use (DGU),” he wrote, “which is often dismissed by the media as myth. But DGU happen all the time—200 times a day, according to the Department of Justice, or 5,000 times a day, according to an overly exuberant Florida State University study. But whichever study you choose to believe, DGU happen frequently and give credence to my hunting friends who see their guns as the last line of defense for themselves and their families.”
Eye Opening