During their evening news coverage Wednesday NBC and CBS championed Senate Democrat Chris Murphy’s (Ct.) filibuster for movement on gun control legislation. Reporter Peter Alexander praised Murphy’s actions as, “a filibuster fueled by frustration,” on NBC’s Nightly News. “Democrats commandeering the Senate floor, trying to force a vote to toughen up gun laws,” Alexander continued.
On CBS’s Evening News it was more of the same from reporter Dean Reynolds, “In Congress, Senator Patrick[sic] Murphy launched a filibuster to force a vote on gun control legislation.” But Reynolds went even farther by brushed off concerns of upholding due-process for American citizens, claiming the numbers were too small to care about:
Some in Congress worry that law-abiding citizens on the list by mistake would be blocked from buying protection. And, yet, of 323 million Americans, there are just 25,000 on the watch list, and 6400 on the no-fly list, so cases of mistaken identity would involve a small portion of the population.