[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
Brian Williams predictably raised the gun control issue as he anchored MSNBC's breaking news coverage of a mass shooting in Oregon on 1 October 2015. Williams asked Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, "Can I ask you about your gun laws – concealed carry, that kind of thing?"
Rosenblum, a Democrat, actually gave some pushback to the journalist's gun control question. After outlining that "it would not have been legal for a concealed carry to occur on a community college campus," the politician underlined that "it's a complicated area. But that's my understanding – not that it's particularly relevant right at the moment." Williams continued with a different subject – the question of whether the shooter had been "immobilized."