As it typically does, the Media Research Center reacted to October’s gun massacre in Maine, in which 18 people were killed, by whining that people are emphasizing the gun part of it. Nicholas Fondacaro ranted in an Oct. 26 post:
In the wake of the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine overnight, the liberal media made their predictable and ghoulish push to strip law-abiding American gun owners of their Second Amendment rights. MSNBC’s Chris Jansing was particularly irritated as she spent part of her eponymous show on Thursday lashing out and attacking the residents of Maine for supporting the Second Amendment and repeatedly rejecting attempts to curtail their rights via gun control legislation.
[…]Growing more hysterical as the segment went on, Jansing looked to MSNBC anchor Lindsey Reiser to decode Maine’s supposedly mysterious gun laws. “You’ve been looking into Maine’s gun laws, what did you find?” she asks as if she was translating the Rosetta Stone.
Reiser did admit that Maine had “relatively low homicide rates compared to rates of high gun ownership. Last year alone, they had only 29 homicides.”
But she did take issue with them having “permitless carry.” “So, anyone 21 or older can carry a gun without a permit. If you’re 18 to 20, you need a permit to carry a weapon, unless you serve in the armed forces or you’re in the National Guard,” she added. Of course, this left out the important detail that to buy the gun they were carrying, they would have already had to pass a background check.
And on background checks, Reiser was out to mislead with lies like the gun show loophole. “We know that they don’t require background checks for all gun sales, just for federally licensed dealers, so private sales, gun shows, those don’t require background checks,” she falsely proclaimed.
Fondacaro failed to explain why any reference to the gun show loophole is a “lie” — an odd claim given that some are trying to close it.
The next day, Fondacaro spent his daily hate-watching of “The View” raging that the American obsession with guns was called out:
The term “RINO” didn’t begin to describe the level of contempt the so-called “conservatives” of ABC’s The View had for the ideology and people they purported to represent. In the wake of the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, FAKE conservatives Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro spewed pure ignorance and hatred at any Republican (politician and private citizen) who supported the Second Amendment and wanted their gun rights secured; openly blaming law-abiding gun owners for mass shootings.
Farah Griffin began her uniformed screed by falsely claiming that gun violence and mass shootings were a “uniquely American problem.” And she tried to portray herself as a knowledgeable commentator who supported the Second Amendment because her husband “owns a gun.”
According to an NPR report from 2019, in the Western Hemisphere alone, the U.S.’s per capita gun deaths were more than eclipsed by at least 10 different countries. Gun violence was one of the leading reasons why people were fleeing Central and South American countries for the U.S.
Fondacaro concluded by Heathering the show’s conservatives for not being pro-gun absolutists like him:
Navarro would later blame all mass shootings and gun deaths on anyone who exercised their Second Amendment rights. “It’s all about you all who keep electing gun-rights apologists, gun-owner apologists,” she bleated. “Do the people in Canada have better hearts? Do the people in Finland have better hearts than Americans do?”
The only thing rotten here was the fake conservatives on The View.
Brad Wilmouth used an Oct. 28 post to complain that gun restrictions were discussed in the massacre’s aftermath, obsessing over the side issue of gun rights for veterans:
On Thursday’s CNN This Morning, reacting to a deadly mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, the show provided Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) an unchallenged forum to push for more gun control and lament that such legislation would likely be opposed by newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson. And, even though fellow Democrat Senator Jon Tester supports legislation to protect the gun rights of veterans, Senator Coons was allowed to mislead viewers on the issue.
After playing a clip of the mayor of Auburn, Maine, reacting to the murder spree in neighboring Lewiston that killed 18, CNN co-host Poppy Harlow brought aboard her guest as she misleadingly blurred gang-related mass shootings with the less frequent type that has a high death toll and is more difficult to predict.
[…]After Harlow followed up by asking if Congress might pass more spending for mental health if it were not tied to new gun laws, the Delaware Democrat repeated his misleading claims that Republicans are trying to help veterans with mental illness get their gun rights back.
It was not mentioned that it’s not just Republicans who support the measure regarding veterans. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) also supports the same measure which would protect veterans who have had to get help in dealing with their finances because of mental illness, contrary to how Senator Coons made it sound.
As it turned out, the massacre perpetrator was an Army reservist with apparent mental health issues that hadn’t been addressed despite warnings.
Wilmouth used a post the next day to whine that the massacre made a Maine congressman change his mind on gun regulation:
In the aftermath of the deadly mass shooting in Maine, CNN This Morning on Friday spent time touting a moderate Democrat congressman who has now switched to the liberal side on gun control as the show also took time to single out the only five congressional Democrats who voted against an “assault weapon” ban last year.
Left-leaning CNN analyst Natasha Alford declared that Congressman Jared Golden (D-ME) had “moral courage” in switching sides on the issue after the shootings in his state while CNN Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin lauded the move as “fairly bold.”
[…]Alford suggested that Second Amendment supporters are not thinking of what’s best for their constituents as she also took a jab at newly elected Speaker Mike Johnson:
Then, Griffin — the kind of Republican analyst the liberal media like best — went along with the premise of the discussion that there needs to be more gun control and speculated about what might pass in spite of Republicans usually opposing more gun laws.
Wilmouth didn’t explain why a mass shooting shouldn’t change people’s minds about the danger of guns.