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During a discussion on the Thursday edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof briefly admitted that gun control would not have stopped the shooter who shot dead two local news reporters in Roanoke Virginia on Wednesday but continued to nonetheless argue that more gun restrictions are needed.
The slip came near the tail end of a panel discussion featuring host Lawrence O’Donnell, Mother Jones’ David Corn, and The Boston Globe’s Shira Center in which Kristof was discussing some common characteristics of shooting incidents when he stated that “you know, it may well be that no measure could have prevented the killer in this case from actually acquiring that gun.”