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After chastising President Trump for ‘politicizing’ lottery visas after the New York City terror attack last week, the Big Three Networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) spent time during their Monday evening broadcasts pushing for more gun control while slamming Trump for saying the Sutherland, Texas mass shooting was a mental health issue.
Their disdain for the President, Republicans, and Second Amendment advocates was palpable. “The mass shooting here in Texas has prompted some in Congress to once again call for gun control. Will this time be different,” declared CBS Evening News Anchor Jeff Glor. And Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes seemed dismayed that “President Trump blamed [the shooter’s] psyche, not his weapon” for the taking of innocent lives.
After noting that so far there was no news of the shooter being diagnosed with a mental illness, she claimed it “may explain why he was able to obtain a Ruger AR-556 rifle within days of it being named the NRA's gun of the week.” Besides the obvious smear of the NRA, Cordes’ comment neglected what CBS had previously reported, which was the shooter had slipped through the cracks because the Air Force failed to have the FBI add his to the Criminal Background Check System after his court-martial.
“And while U.S. levels of mental illness are comparable to those in other western countries, our rate of firearm homicides is 6 to 16 times greater,” Cordes continued, failing to take into account most of those deaths were crime between criminals and suicides.
Cordes also touted Democrats for pushing gun control and lamented how the GOP hadn’t done anything. “Congress does have all the facts about dozens of past mass shootings, of course, but that hasn't led to much action either,” she whined, failing to mention that most liberal gun control schemes would not have stopped any of the recent mass shootings.
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