It is a tragedy any time there is a school shooting and Monday’s Nashville Christian school shooting is no different. It is also a tragedy that Democrats and the liberal media are using this tragedy to push their radical gun control agenda.
CBS Morning and NBC’s Today took the focus away from gender identity and possible motives of the shooting, and instead used the tragedy to push their gun control agenda. Far-left Congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) even held a press conference where he berated Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) for refusing to pass gun control.
Co-host Gayle King opened the show’s “Eye Opener” by touting First Lady Jill Biden’s visit to Nashville “amid passionate pleas on Capitol Hill for changes to gun laws.” King also mentioned that despite more than 130 mass shootings this year, any change to gun laws is a tough sell for Republicans. She then praised a back-and-forth between Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Congressman Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) with Greene arguing a productive talk about guns would be “protecting our children the same way we protect our President, we protect our celebrities, we protect this building,” while Moskowitz directly blamed Republicans for the six dead because they ended the assault weapons ban.
On NBC, correspondent Catie Beck folded the call for gun control into her report from Nashville on both the investigation and vigils for the lives lost, saying those came amid “a growing call for change stretches from Nashville to Washington where a renewed push for gun control legislation led to this heated exchange.” Beck then played a snippet of the Bowman exchange followed in which he said Republicans “won’t do anything to save the lives of our children” and “more guns leads to more death” with Beck stating it was “[j]ust one example of the heated divide happening on Capitol Hill.”
It is wrong for the liberal media and Democrats to use the tragedy of Monday’s Nashville Christian school shooting to push for far-left gun control policies. Gun control does not reduce crime, and the only way to protect our children is to ensure they are in a safe environment and are properly trained to use firearms.
Gun control is a violation of the rights of law-abiding Americans and it is wrong to take away their right to protect themselves. Not to mention it does NOTHING to protect the innocent from violent criminals.