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NARRATIVE FAIL (CONT?D): USA Today: Poll: Conservatives not to blame for Ariz. shooting. Most A?

By Glenn Reynolds

NARRATIVE FAIL (CONT’D): USA Today: Poll: Conservatives not to blame for Ariz. shooting.

Most Americans reject the idea that inflammatory political language by conservatives should be part of the debate about the forces behind the Arizona shooting that left six people dead and a congresswoman in critical condition, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds.

A 53% majority of those surveyed call that analysis mostly an attempt to use the tragedy to make conservatives look bad. . . .

And there is little sense that stricter gun control laws in Arizona might have averted the tragedy. Only one in five say they would have prevented the shooting; 72% say tighter controls wouldn’t have prevented it.

Apparently, it’s not 1995 any more.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 12, 2011 (boomark / email).