In a pre-recorded interview, MSNBC host Joy Reid gave gun control activist Cameron Kasky an unchallenged forum to suggest that the NRA "loves" school shootings like Sandy Hook and Columbine, and also left the impression that background checks might have stopped Columbine even though three people broke the law to supply Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold with the guns they used in the 1999 attack.
As the interview was shown on Saturday at 5:24 p.m. ET during special coverage of the March for Our Lives, Reid was seen bringing up the Columbine attack and linking it to a "gun show loophole." Here's Reid:
You mentioned you were born the year after Columbine. You tweeted, "Three out of four guns used in the Columbine shooting were straw man purchases. Someone else bought the weapon. We must close the gun show loophole." You guys know a lot about policy for 17-year-olds.
Not mentioned was that Mark Manes and Philip Duran were both convicted of supplying firearms to the underage Harris and Klebold after the Columbine attack was investigated.
A bit later, as Kasky predicted that his fellow activists would continue to be inspired by the Parkland shootings, he took his latest opportunity to demonize the NRA:
This isn't just another one of those school shootings that gets the media for two weeks, gets an organization of parents, and people throw it aside and forget about it, and it's just this other sad thing in the United States. That's what the NRA loves. They love Sandy Hook. They love things like Columbine where everybody just forgot about them.
