After TN Theater Incident, CNN Calls for More Gun Control – Despite Fake Gun

By Nick Leghorn

Immediately following the news that there was an attack in a movie theater in Antioch, Tennessee, CNN’s anchors consistently started the segment by intoning that, “We’ve seen this time and again.” The implication was that shootings in theaters are becoming commonplace and they bemoaned the fact that nothing has been done to prevent such tragedies. The obvious conclusion: CNN’s anchors wanted to see more gun control legislation. Since that hasn’t happened they are blaming every attack on the evil NRA and gun owners. There’s just one problem: the gun used in this particular incident was fake . . .

Not that CNN really cares. Well after it was determined that the pistol was a pellet gun, the “news” organization ran an op-ed calling for more gun control and using this non-shooting as a prime example of the “gun culture gone wrong.”

That the alleged assailant in Nashville, Vincente David Montano, was wielding a pellet gun that only, quite convincingly, looked like a real gun changes the outcome, but not the terror. Some of us may decide going out to the movies isn’t worth it.

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Source:: Truth About Guns