Gun Control Tops Google Issue Searches On Tuesday

posted on September 15, 2016
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While many in the so-called “mainstream” media would have you believe that few care about the issue of gun control leading up to the November elections, recent results from Google seem to point to just the opposite conclusion.

According to Google, the top-searched political issue on Tuesday was Gun Control, followed by Immigration, Abortion, Economy and Racism, in that order.

And don’t believe that it is only those interested in more gun control that are using the search engine, as more and more information is made available about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s horrendous stance on the issue. Let’s keep the conversation about gun control—and Clinton’s disdain for gun owners and the Second Amendment—on the front burner right up to Election Day. Then we’ll let the voters decide.

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