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.
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Nawaz then turned to Stohr and, with a similar sentiment to her question to Brooks, wondered, “Kimberly, we reported earlier Governor Walz seems to be suggesting he's going to call a special session to try to address this. We don't have details beyond that. But does the Democratic response, in particular, does it feel a little more muted to you this time?”
Atkins began repeating the liberal line about thoughts and prayers, “I feel like all of it is muted. I think that Americans, who are sending their children to school to start their school year, are hearing about the thoughts and prayers and these ambiguous actions that may or may not be coming, and they are gutted by that, because they know that none of that protects their children.”
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