NRA President David Keene saw gun control going down to defeat in the Senate months ago:
“… The Toomey-Manchin amendment was defeated in the Senate by a 54–46 vote. Keene said he saw the victory coming; he was confident, he claims, as far back as February, when he arrived at a rally in Albany, N.Y., to find thousands of supporters waiting for him on a cold, rainy day. Together, they railed against Andrew Cuomo’s gun legislation — which, as it turned out, proved to be more drastic, far-reaching, and successful than any of the bills proposed on the federal level.”
All our opposition is able to turn out is astroturf. And yet, the antis media allies are still unwilling to admit why their side lost.
There is an expression that says if you repeat a lie often enough people will believe it. There is some truth in that. However In this case those repeating the lie about 90% support for gun control came to believe their own lie.
The lies were not without consequence though. The people of New York paid with their rights.
New Yorker: Yeah, and here we sit with an unjustified gun law when they should have passed a law banning those dangerous pressure cookers instead.