Francis Wilkinson, Columnist

The Antidote to the NRA's Toxic Video

Unlike the NRA ad, a new study is factual and powerful.

June 30, 2017 at 7:05 PM UTC

Francis Wilkinson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US politics and policy. Previously, he was executive editor for the Week and a writer for Rolling Stone.

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The National Rifle Association is no doubt grateful for the sensation it caused this week with a video featuring propagandist Dana Loesch.

In 2015, Loesch starred in another NRA video on the depredations of the "godless left." In her telling, liberals sought nothing less than the extermination of decent Americans, attacking not only "our right to believe," Loesch said, but "our right to survive."