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Towards the end of Sunday’s Meet the Press, moderator Chuck Todd led the largely liberal panel on a sorrowful whine session to bemoan how no hastily-crafted-poorly-understood-and-ultimately-useless gun control measures had been enacted nationally yet.
“It does look like we're about to complete the cycle of a gun -- there's a massive tragedy, people wringing their hands, we've got to do something and then the paralysis sets in,” Todd complained. He turned to NBC’s Tom Brokaw and proceeded to read from the Washington Post column of former George W. Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson to describe the breakdown:
“It's one of the dirty habits of our political discourse that so many people use they remember nuclear rhetorical weapons as a first resort. It is not enough for defenders of gun rights to be wrong, they must be explicit in murder. It is not enough for gun control advocates to be mistaken, they must be jack-booted thugs laying the groundwork for tyranny.” And that is why we have no gun policy in this country.
Brokaw opined about how he was a gun owner and said he had been in and out of gun stores a lot when he was growing up. He was basically trying to play himself up as some sort of credible source to push gun control. And according to him, we needed to have “a blue ribbon panel out of the Congress and the American people and get together and say, ‘this is what we have to do in a macro sense’” to enforce gun control.
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