The news and opinion section at each The New York Times and The Washington Post are out of synch whether to identify “independent” gun rights scholar David Kopel’s NRA funding.
Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott is hardly the only elected official to benefit from the gun lobby. But his story reveals how they hide in the swamp,
“I don’t think it’s quite game over,” said Jonathan E. Lowy, legal director of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. “But there are reasons to be concerned.”
David Kopel has established himself as an independent authority on gun policy, even though he and his Independence Institute have received over $1.42 (now over $3) million or about $175,000 a year from the NRA.
Here’s why the NRA is dead wrong about gun control causing genocide. But at least even their paid scholars agree with human rights groups about the horrors of the military dictatorship in Guatemala.
At the same time that the gun lobby is helping to fuel threatening language on the Internet, it is trying to keep secret its financial backing for key witnesses testifying about gun violence before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
