RED EYE - SEPTEMBER 19, 2013 FULL EPISODE

Tom Shillue hosts and welcomes guests Ellison Barber and Remy Munasifi. Plus, TV's Andy Levy joins the panel.

CNN's Don Lemon Rethinks Gun Control After CDC Report Debunks Liberal Narrative

During a discussion on The Tom Joyner Radio Show, Lemon entered into a discussion about gun violence. While we might expect to see a diatribe concerning emotional rhetoric, to his credit, Lemon focused on the logic of gun control policies and cited a study that has altered his thinking on the subject.

Obama commissioned a study by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) to investigate gun violence. While the move was largely thought to be an effort to drum up some support for his anti-gun push, the report actually discovered what gun rights advocates have known all along. Gun control doesn't work.

Lemon candidly admitted,

"It just might make you rethink your stance, your view, on the issue. It did for me. It's making me rethink it."

The lengthy report, in summary, states:

1) That most gun deaths are actually suicides, not gun violence.

2) Armed citizens are less likely to be injured by an attacker

3) There are anywhere between 500,000 to 3 million defensive uses of guns per year.

4) Most criminals procure their weapons from illegal means- such as friends or black market, making it impossible to remedy throw legislation.

5) mass shootings and accidental firearm casualties account for a small fraction of gun-related deaths and both are declining.

The report emerged in June, but has largely been ignored by the mainstream media and has not been mentioned by the Obama Administration. Of course, the findings directly contradict the narratives pushed by anti-gun zealots.

Still, with these surprises coming from the left, it is refreshing to see that some liberals are slowly awakening to several key narratives that simply don't make sense.