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With the Las Vegas mass shooting just a couple days old, MSNBC’s Chuck Todd was eager to push the gun grabbing debate. So to satisfy his urge, he dedicated nearly all of Tuesday’s MTP Daily to talking about different proposals for gun control and hammering the National Rifle Association (NRA) for standing up for the Second Amendment. But Todd did bring on the National Review’s David French who attempted to calm his host’s hysteria.
“Like I said, you are not afraid to engage on this issue,” Todd praised French, “When does someone's right to bear arms get to the point where it potentially infringes on someone's right to attend a concert in an outdoor setting and not feel like it is an unsafe experience?”
In a calm and even manner, French explained just where a person’s gun rights end and a person’s safety begins:
I think there is an obvious answer to that. Someone's right to bear arms infringes upon my rights the instant they start to menace me with that weapon or threaten me with that weapon. And it's very difficult to use this particular shooting as some sort of paradigm with which to analyze the gun debate.
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