Representative Ryan Zinke (R-MT) made an appearance on Friday’s edition of The Situation Room on CNN, where anchors Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown couldn’t help but push gun control propaganda and try to take the unum out of e pluribus.
Blitzer tried to hit Zinke with a one-two combo: claiming the weapon used to kill Charlie Kirk was “sophisticated” to scare viewers and that there’s such a thing as “common sense gun control.” Zinke expertly blocked the first blow:
BLITZER: This 22 year old suspect, Congressman, had a pretty sophisticated weapon. This rifle was very—if he was aiming from, what, about 200 yards away from a rooftop, it was pretty sophisticated. And I keep getting this question from our viewers out there. They keep asking, “Is it time for some serious, common sense gun control here in the United States, similar to what's going on in other democracies in Europe or elsewhere?”
ZINKE: This weapon system was a bolt action. So that's the most common. It wasn't an AR-15. It wasn't a—quote—“an assault rifle." It was just a rifle. You can go in as a citizen and buy a scope that is very sophisticated now. China sells them right online.
(…)And these scopes don't take a lot of precision, a lot of time. Maybe a long afternoon, you will be proficient enough on these.
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