In a video podcast this week, conservative comedian and commentator Steven Crowder dedicated a segment to highlighting “what the media got wrong about the Sutherland Springs shooting.”
“I think the firearm argument in this country, the Second Amendment argument, that’s taking place occurs between two parties: gun owners and the completely uninformed,” says Crowder. For evidence, he walks through several false claims made by mainstream media outlets in response to the horrific mass shooting in Texas.
Crowder begins by providing a clip from an MSNBC panel discussion in which the various talking heads make easily refutable claims like it’s harder to cash a check than to buy a gun and it’s easier to buy a gun than get a driver’s license. One panelist outright declares “that’s the root of the argument of why we need to start talking about repealing the Second Amendment” and says that the Constitution makes it too hard to prevent people like Devin Kelley from purchasing a gun — even though Kelley was in fact not legally allowed to purchase firearms because of his domestic assault record.
Crowder blows up the threadbare driver’s license argument by suggesting it should be difficult to be allowed to drive a vehicle, noting that a “16-year-old texting behind the wheel of a Chevy Suburban” poses a major risk to both herself and others.
“To get a firearm, you have to have a state-issued ID,” says Crowder, “usually it’s a driver’s license. Either way, you have to go through the process, so he’s wrong two times here. You have to go through the process to get a state ID and then use that to go through the background check when you purchase a firearm. Anyone who has purchased a firearm knows this is false — but at least he’s being honest now saying we should just repeal the Second Amendment.”
Crowder blows up the threadbare driver’s license argument by suggesting it should be difficult to be allowed to drive a vehicle, noting that a “16-year-old texting behind the wheel of a Chevy Suburban” poses a major risk to both herself and others.
“To get a firearm, you have to have a state-issued ID,” says Crowder, “usually it’s a driver’s license. Either way, you have to go through the process, so he’s wrong two times here. You have to go through the process to get a state ID and then use that to go through the background check when you purchase a firearm. Anyone who has purchased a firearm knows this is false — but at least he’s being honest now saying we should just repeal the Second Amendment.”
(First reported by the Daily Wire) http://www.dailywire.com/news/23402/crowder-video-here-are-all-lies-media-told-about-james-barrett (November 10, 2017)
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