Bangor Daily News Article Rating

Brewer police are behind a GOP lawmaker's attempt to tighten gun laws

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    -12% Somewhat Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    6% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    14% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : Two groups on both sides of the gun debate said they did not yet have stances on the bills but indicated agreement with Lyford and police on the problems facing law enforcement.
36% : Police in Brewer are working through a Republican lawmaker on changes to gun laws that aim to help them stop an increasing number of armed drug traffickers in Maine.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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