Amid NYC Terror Coverage MSNBC Panel Complains About Guns in America, Trump

Nicholas Fondacaro | December 11, 2017
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As information was still coming in regarding Monday’s attempted terror attack in a New York City subway, an MSNBC panel discussing the news ridiculously shifted the topic to outrage over guns and gun crime in the U.S. And on top of that, they bemoaned how President Trump would try to make the attack an immigration issue to support his temporary travel ban.

The person who was responsible for kicking off the gun discussion was former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton. After commenting on how few terror attacks the U.S. has had since 9/11 (missing a few as he rattled them off), he opined about how:

We will continue to prevent a lot of them. But the reality is they’re going to keep coming. And whether they’ve inspired, enabled or directed. But the sad reality in our country also is we’re sitting here talking right now, no loss of life here this morning, tremendous disruption. But someplace in America today, some nut with a gun is going to go out and kill three or four people. Every day we have a mass shooting in this country.

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