{"id":38489,"date":"2015-06-17T09:35:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T13:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=38489"},"modified":"2015-06-17T09:35:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T00:32:11","slug":"gun-grabber-michael-bloomberg-funds-new-moderate-gun-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/gun-grabber-michael-bloomberg-funds-new-moderate-gun-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun-Grabber Michael Bloomberg Funds New \u2018Moderate\u2019 Gun Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_38490\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Trace.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"gun-grabber-michael-bloomberg-funds-new-moderate-gun-site\" title=\"Gun-Grabber Michael Bloomberg Funds New \u2018Moderate\u2019 Gun Site\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38490\" title=\"Gun-Grabber Michael Bloomberg Funds New \u2018Moderate\u2019 Gun Site\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Trace-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Bloomberg's The Trace website is ostensibly unbiased, but will no doubt take an anti-gun bent.  (Photo: HuffPo)\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Trace-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Trace-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Trace.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bloomberg&#8217;s The Trace website is ostensibly unbiased, but will no doubt take an anti-gun bent. \u00a0After all, the side is funded by the most rabidly anti-gunner on the planet. (<em>Photo: HuffPo<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is notoriously anti-gun, and yet he is financially backing a new gun news website called \u201cThe Trace\u201d in an effort to promote \u201cmoderate\u201d gun policy.<\/p>\n<p>The direction of the website is currently under wraps but a lucky few in Washington were granted a sneak peak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease join us for a preview of The Trace &#8211; the journalism startup dedicated to changing the conversation about guns in America,\u201d read the invitation to the event.<\/p>\n<p>Not much is known about the site other than it is run by former New Republic story editor James Burnett, who spoke briefly about the website in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/06\/16\/the-trace-bloomberg-guns_n_7581446.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"gun-grabber-michael-bloomberg-funds-new-moderate-gun-site\" title=\"Gun-Grabber Michael Bloomberg Funds New \u2018Moderate\u2019 Gun Site\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HuffPo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that the rate of gun violence is too high and we believe that there is not enough information about the issue as a whole,\u201d said Burnett. \u201cAs journalists, we have it as our mission to address that shortage of information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another telltale sign comes from a reporter working on a story for The Trace, where she describes herself as \u201ca freelance writer for The Trace, a soon-to-be released online news magazine about guns and gun rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While some who have intimate details of the site claim it will include viewpoints from both the left and the right, the National Rifle Association is\u00a0confident The Trace is simply another platform for Bloomberg to push his anti-gun agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project is yet another illustration of Bloomberg\u2019s ego-driven zeal to control other Americans and diminish not just their rights, but their access to reliable information about their rights,\u201d said the NRA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe believe that the rate of gun violence is too high and we believe that there is not enough information about the issue as a whole,\u201d said Burnett. \u201cAs journalists, we have it as our mission to address that shortage of information.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":24224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,7,216,240],"tags":[132,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-gunsamerica-authors","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"category-this-week","11":"tag-buzz","12":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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