ABC Host Pushes Gun Control, Ignores Devaluation of Life by Our Culture

Nicholas Fondacaro | May 20, 2018
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For the liberal media, the only real problem for America when came to gun violence was that pesky Second Amendment and your access to firearms. And while they talked a good game about an “all of the above” solution, their only goal was to restrict your rights. A grade-A example of this kind of attitude was on display Sunday during ABC’s This Week, where host George Stephanopoulos grilled Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick about gun control for his state while ignoring Patrick’s point regarding the devaluation of life by our culture.

Stephanopoulos wasted little time and dove right into to the anti-gun fear mongering and propaganda at the top of the program:

Children who’ve never known school without lockdown drills expecting what should be unthinkable. Santa Fe, the ninth fatal school shooting this year reflected in this stunning fact: There have now been more students or teachers killed by guns in U.S. schools than active duty military deaths in 2018. A year not even halfway over.

That statistic about school shootings, which ABC didn’t actually present numbers for, was meant to sound like both were astronomical numbers, when, in fact, both were much smaller: 31 to 29. And it didn’t address how the Santa Fe shooter also tried to construct homemade bombs.

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