On Sunday’s This Week on ABC, co-anchor Jonathan Karl hosted the first episode since the tragic mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and predictably Karl used it to push his party’s gun grabbing agenda. It was funny that Adam Kinzinger (liberal Republican congressman) was his only Republican guest during the main segment of the program. Kinzinger’s job as per usual wasn’t to defend his party, but to trash it and praise the Democrats, most notably Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT).
Karl, who mocked Republicans in Congress at the beginning preview of the show set the tone. “After years of inaction, Congress will finally take action?”
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Karl’s first guest was Senator Murphy who continued to tout the reportedly bipartisan talks over gun control and both Karl and Murphy seemed hopeful that some form of gun control or “red flag” laws will pass.
After a commercial break, Karl brought on Kinzinger to ask him about his “journey” from having an A rating from the National Rifle Association (NRA) to having an F rating: “Let me ask you about your journey on this, because you — you were once an A-rating from the NRA” Karl asked.
Karl asked in amazement “So, help me understand, how did you go from being somebody that was kind of right in line with the gun lobby on this to somebody who thinks it time to change these laws?”
Kinzinger responded that it was because he was “getting sick of seeing the mass shootings” as if people who don’t support gun control are happy to see their fellow Americans die in mass shootings.
After telling the story about the time he “called for banning bump stocks which by the way was ultimately done and because of that the NRA basically said, Kinzinger is a RINO” he started crying about the Gun Owners of America and slimed them as being crazier than the NRA.
Then Karl jumped in and agreed, claiming “they’re out right in support of militia movements in the country.”
ABC considers this a balanced discussion on gun control. Liberal Democrats and liberal Republicans both favor taking your guns away.
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ABC’s This Week
5/29/2022
Eastern, 9:25:20(…)
JONKARL: Let me ask about your life. You were an A-rated NRA member once and you had an AR-15. Is your AR-15 still in you possession?
ADAM KINZINGER: I do, yep.
KARL
KINZINGER It is something I find very unusual, and one reason why it is so rare that someone who believes and appreciates the Second Amendment must also be the ones that propose reasonable solutions to gun violence. You know, the reaction of my colleagues of the NRA, to say if you want to come and take my guns, so I’m to walk around, I’m going to go into the Michigan state capitol with my AR, by the way can I make a point that open carry, especially with ARs is one of the more insane things.
Maybe out west it works fine, I’m not going to go after it there but to walk into the state capitol of Michigan with a gun because it makes you feel tough, these are the kinds of things that Second Amendment supporters are doing no favors to defend that Second Amendment to the next generation. For me, it was the day after Vegas. I’d shot a bumpstock before and heard the recording. I asked for the banning of bump stocks and the NRA said Kinzinger was a RINO. I was shocked because the NRA only cares about your money. They don’t really give a lot of money to people. The NRA can cause a lot of trouble and are competing against Gun Owners of America. The Gun Owners of America thinks the NRA has it all. Now, the NRA has to compete with this group for crazy because that’s where they get their money from. It’s no longer defending gun owners’ rights. Instead, the NRA is a grifting scheme. All you need to see are the past few years of this grifting fraud of the NRA.
KARL: I covered the Gun Owners of America after the Oklahoma City Bombing. They’re out right in support of militia movements in the country. The NRA is, however, not as strong as it used to be. It has serious budget problems and internal scandals. However, the NRA seems to still have the same hold over Republicans.
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