Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr pinch-hit for MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart on Friday’s PBS News Hour and, during the discussion on the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis, blamed the GOP and its embrace of gun culture for mass shootings in America. New York Times columnist David Brooks wasn’t much better. While he refrained from that kind of rhetoric, he still pushed more gun control while using female pronouns to describe the shooter.
Host Amna Nawaz rounded out the trio and wondered if anyone actually cares, “David, from Sandy Hook to Parkland to Uvalde, nothing has dramatically changed to keep this sort of thing from happening again. Is it too cynical to say that there's a numbness that has set in to kids being shot in school here?”
Brooks began with his gun control pitch, “I think people still have the capacity to be appalled by somebody who shoots their children through stained glass windows. And so I do think that. Will there be action? JD Vance just said prayers and actions. Well, what are the actions he's proposing? The shooter in this case got her guns legally. She passed through the red flag law, which they have in Minnesota, the permitting. And so clearly more needs to be done.”
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