{"id":81374,"date":"2017-10-24T14:57:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T18:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=81374"},"modified":"2017-10-24T14:57:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T10:39:08","slug":"former-npr-ceo-admits-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/former-npr-ceo-admits-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NPR Chief Admits He Was Wrong on Gun Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_81375\" style=\"width: 409px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-24-at-2.19.20-PM.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"former-npr-ceo-admits-gun-control\" title=\"Former NPR Chief Admits He Was Wrong on Gun Control\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81375\" title=\"Former NPR Chief Admits He Was Wrong on Gun Control\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-24-at-2.19.20-PM.png\" alt=\"Former NPR Chief Admits He Was Wrong on Gun Control\" width=\"399\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-24-at-2.19.20-PM.png 399w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-24-at-2.19.20-PM-150x92.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-81375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former NPR CEO Ken Stern has evolved on gun control.\u00a0 As he said in a recent interview, &#8220;Why are we talking about gun control&#8221;?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ken Stern, the former CEO of NPR, acknowledged recently what many of us already know. Gun control is ineffective.<\/p>\n<p>Stern finally realized this after a trek across America for his new book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062460783\/republican-like-me\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"former-npr-ceo-admits-gun-control\" title=\"Former NPR Chief Admits He Was Wrong on Gun Control\">Republican Like Me: How I left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; to promote the book, guest host Willie Guest asked Stern how the trip impacted his stance on the issues.<\/p>\n<p>The former National Public Radio chief mentioned gun\u00a0control, noting that crime has dropped over the past two decades while gun ownership has spiked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most extraordinary trend in modern American criminal history,&#8221; Stern explained. &#8220;At the same time, the number of guns have gone up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those two things aren&#8217;t correlated, but it&#8217;s clear we know how to drive down gun murders without gun control, and the question is why are we talking about gun control when there&#8217;s other things that we&#8217;ve been doing for 25 years that actually have reduced murders in this country by an extraordinary amount,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/survey-3-million-americans-pack-heat-every-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"former-npr-ceo-admits-gun-control\" title=\"Former NPR Chief Admits He Was Wrong on Gun Control\">Survey: More than 3 Million Americans Pack Heat Every Day<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Wow. Talk about a major blow to Everytown for Gun Safety, the Brady Campaign, and the rest of the gun-grabbers out there.\u00a0 Coming from an NPR alum, that&#8217;s gotta hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Stern did hedge his statement a little bit by saying,\u00a0 he&#8217;s &#8220;still fine&#8221; with certain gun control measures even though they&#8217;re not going to have a &#8220;major effect&#8221; on crime.<\/p>\n<p>Glad to see that he&#8217;s coming around to the truth.\u00a0 Better late than never, right?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it would&#8217;ve been nice for him to\u00a0have this awakening when he was the head of the nation&#8217;s leading nonprofit news organization.\u00a0 Might&#8217;ve had an impact on the way NPR covers the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Stern, the former CEO of NPR, acknowledged recently what many of us already know. 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