“How are these guys getting, apparently, double barreled rifles?” asked Tamron Hall.
“There’s an ongoing debate in Canada about the Harper government’s attempt to loosen gun control laws,” answered Lee-Anne Goodman of The Canadian Press. “So that’s going to become part of the conversation, I imagine, in the days following this.”
There’s only one problem with this logic, of course. Canada’s gun control restrictions happen to be far more strict than the ones in the United States. If anything, this undermines the gun control crowd’s rationale, since it shows that tighter rules don’t necessarily prevent mass shootings.
It’s a fact that fellow MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell needed to be reminded of roughly one hour later:
Andrea’s response?
Next topic, please!
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