Opining on MSNBC's Morning Joe on January 17, longtime NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw likened the liberal campaign for more gun restrictions with the fight for civil rights 50 years ago: “It reminds me a lot of what happened in the South in the 1960s during the civil rights movement. Good people stayed in their houses and didn’t speak up when there was carnage in the streets and the total violation of the fundamental rights of African-Americans as they marched in Selma, and they let Bull Connor and the redneck elements of the South and the Klan take over their culture in effect and become the face of it. And now a lot of people who I know who grew up during that time have deep regrets about not speaking out.”
