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The school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas wasn’t carried out with the media’s favorite weapon to mischaracterize and demonize (the AR-15), but that was only a minor speed bump for those who really wanted to take away your rights. And during Monday’s Hardball on MSNBC, host Chris Matthews brought on anti-gun activist Nicole Hockley and the pair whined about those who respected the Second Amendment. Matthews even claimed that since NRA had hired Oliver North to be their president, the organization was somehow “immune to justice.”
“After last week's deadly shooting at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, gun advocates tried to cast blame on anything but guns,” Matthews began his gun bashing segment. He then lambasted Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick for focusing on hardening schools and for noting the culture’s devaluation of life. “Well, he continued to avoid blaming guns yesterday when he attributed to school shooting to violence to American culture, including he mentioned abortions.”
Matthews turned to Hockley, the managing director of the anti-gun lobbying group, Sandy Hook Promise, to rip into gun rights advocates. “I think these are standard diversionary tactics rather than dealing with the issue at hand. Talking about every possible other cause of gun violence, other than the one thing that everything is in common,” she chided.
In addition to her attacks on the pro-gun crowd, Hockley spewed forth hypocritical statement after hypocritical statement about the nature of the debate. For example, while Hockley suggested she was “not about taking all the guns away,” she kept insisting the only thing all these tragic events had in common was the type of weapon:
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