Can Liberals Finally Defeat the NRA?

The rise in white supremacist shootings could change the politics of gun control

Brendan Nyhan
GEN
Published in
3 min readAug 6, 2019

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Protesters hold a rally against gun violence in Times Square in response to recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Denton, Ohio on August 4, 2019 in New York City. Photo: Go Nakamura/Getty Images

TThe weekend’s deadly massacres in El Paso and Dayton served as a grim reminder of past inaction on gun policy. Even posting the famous Onion headline “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” on social media has become a kind of…

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Brendan Nyhan
GEN
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan