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Posted On: 08/19/2017 4:47:04 PM
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Rolling Stone is celebrating the fact that it has been admittedly pro-gun control–and has been pushing gun control–for nearly 40 years.
The magazine’s founder, Jann Wenner , says the publication’s gun control push began following the assassination of John Lennon and has not abated. (Lennon was killed on December 8, 1980.)
Rolling Stone quotes Wenner saying, “It all started with Lennon, that tragedy. Trying to make sense of it. Or make something good come out of it.” He launched a gun control endeavor months after the assassination but all momentum soon faded. Wenner said, “It became obvious that the beginning and end of this was the NRA.”
A 1981 column by Howard Kohn then expressed the magazine’s position that the NRA was blocking gun control by impacting Congress:
The magazine’s founder, Jann Wenner , says the publication’s gun control push began following the assassination of John Lennon and has not abated. (Lennon was killed on December 8, 1980.)
Rolling Stone quotes Wenner saying, “It all started with Lennon, that tragedy. Trying to make sense of it. Or make something good come out of it.” He launched a gun control endeavor months after the assassination but all momentum soon faded. Wenner said, “It became obvious that the beginning and end of this was the NRA.”
A 1981 column by Howard Kohn then expressed the magazine’s position that the NRA was blocking gun control by impacting Congress:
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