Tragedies like Monday’s Nashville Christian school shooting are being used to push radical far-left gun control policies, and the liberal media is doing everything they can to cheer it on.
On Thursday, CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today illustrated their sprint away from gender identity and possible motives of the shooting and instead focused on gun control.
Politicians like far-left Congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) are also doing their part to push the narrative. On Wednesday, he put on a performance before reporters in which he berated Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) for refusing to pass gun control.
CBS co-host Gayle King opened the show’s “Eye Opener” by touting First Lady Jill Biden’s visit to Nashville “amid passionate pleas on Capitol Hill for changes to gun laws.” She then played a clip of Bowman’s staged meltdown in which he asked whether Massie was “listening to what I’m saying.”
King circled back to this again in the show after a segment on the grief-stricken community, lamenting that “any change to our gun laws is still a tough sell” for those odious Republicans “[d]espite more than 130 mass shootings this year.”
Without a credit, King sighted the Gun Violence Archive, which has been repeatedly taken to task for cooking their books. She then boasted about a back-and-forth between Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Congressman Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) with Greene arguing a productive talk about guns would be “protecting our children the same way we protect our President, we protect our celebrities, we protect this building,” while Moskowitz directly blamed Republicans for the six dead because they ended the assault weapons ban.
King huffed: “President Biden continues to push for reinstatement of the assault weapons ban that Congress let expire back in 2004. But with Republicans in control of the House, that’s looking very unlikely.”
But as many have noted and researched by groups such as the RAND Corporation, a ban’s effectiveness “is inconclusive.”
Over on NBC, correspondent Catie Beck folded the call for gun control into her report from Nashville on both the investigation and vigils for the lives lost, saying those came amid “a growing call for change stretches from Nashville to Washington where a renewed push for gun control legislation led to this heated exchange.”
Beck then played a snippet of the Bowman exchange followed in which he said Republicans “won’t do anything to save the lives of our children” and “more guns leads to more death” with Beck stating it was “[j]ust one example of the heated divide happening on Capitol Hill.”
She added that “House Democrats are calling for a new assault weapons ban with little to no support from Republicans who control that chamber.”
It’s sickening to see the liberal media and politicians use tragedies like Monday’s shooting to push for far-left gun control policies. The facts are clear: gun control does not reduce crime. The only real way to protect our children is to ensure that they are in a safe environment and that they are properly trained to use firearms.
