CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today illustrated Thursday the liberal media’s further sprint away from the gender identity and possible motives of Monday’s Nashville Christian school shooting in favor of focusing on gun control.
And to assist them (when they’re not blaming those murdered for holding views they find odious), far-left Congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) put on a performance Wednesday before reporters in which he berated Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) for refusing to pass gun control.
CBS co-host, Democratic donor, and Obama family friend Gayle King opened the show’s “Eye Opener” by touting First Lady Jill Biden’s visit to Nashville “amid passionate pleas on Capitol Hill for changes to gun laws.” After that, CBS played a clip of Bowman’s staged meltdown in which he asked whether Massie was “listening to what I’m saying.”
King circled back to this again in the show after a segment on the grief-stricken community, lamenting that “any change to our gun laws is still a tough sell” for those odious Republicans “[d]espite more than 130 mass shootings this year.” Without a credit, King sighted the Gun Violence Archive, which we’ve repeatedly took to task for cooking their books.
“Yesterday that led to multiple confrontations between Democrats who were urging action and Republicans who are not. New York Democrat Jamaal Bowman and Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie clashed outside the House chamber,” she boasted in tossing to part of the exchange (click “expand”):
BOWMAN: Freaking cowards. They're gutless.
MASSIE: What are you talking about?
BOWMAN: I’m talking about gun violence.
MASSIE: You know there’s never been a school shooting in a school –
BOWMAN: I’m talking about gun violence.
MASSIE: – that allows teachers to carry?
BOWMAN: Carry guns? You think – more guns leads to more death.
King also went to a back-and-forth in a committee hearing between Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Congressman Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) with Greene arguing a productive talk about guns would be “protecting our children the same way we protect our President, we protect our celebrities, we protect this building,” while Moskowitz directly blaming Republicans for the six dead because they ended the assault weapons ban.
After an “mmm” of agreement by co-host Nate Burleson to Moskowitz’s point, King huffed: “President Biden continues to push for reinstatement of the assault weapons ban that Congress let expire back in 2004. But with Republicans in control of the House, that's looking very unlikely.”
But as many have noted and researched by groups such as the RAND Corporation, a ban’s effectiveness “is inconclusive.”
Over on NBC, correspondent Catie Beck folded it into her report from Nashville on both the investigation and vigils for the lives lost, saying those came amid “a growing call for change stretches from Nashville to Washington where a renewed push for gun control legislation led to this heated exchange.”
A snippet of the Bowman exchange followed in which he said Republicans “won’t do anything to save the lives of our children” and “more guns leads to more death” with Beck stating it was “[j]ust one example of the heated divide happening on Capitol Hill.”
She added that “House Democrats are calling for a new assault weapons ban with little to no support from Republicans who control that chamber.” Tossing back to the studio, she painted a universal view on guns, claiming “parents and kids will rally at the state capitol later today for tougher gun control measures here in Tennessee.”
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To see the relevant transcripts from March 30, click “expand.”
CBS Mornings
March 30, 2023
7:00 a.m. Eastern [TEASE]GAYLE KING: First Lady Jill Biden honors the victims of the massacre in Nashville amid passionate pleas on Capitol Hill for changes to gun laws.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Nashville in Mourning]
CONGRESSMAN JAMAAL BOWMAN (D-NY): Are you listening to what I'm saying?
CONGRESSMAN THOMAS MASSIE (R-KY): Yeah, calm down.
BOWMAN: What – calm down? Children are dying!
MASSIE: I know. I’ve got a solution.
BOWMAN: Nine-year-old children!
(….)
7:10 a.m. Eastern
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Lawmakers in Shouting Match Over Guns; Members Argue Over Gun Control Measures Following Mass Shooting]
KING: Despite more than 130 mass shootings this year, any change to our gun laws is still a tough sell on Capitol Hill. Yesterday that led to multiple confrontations between Democrats who were urging action and Republicans who are not. New York Democrat Jamaal Bowman and Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie clashed outside the House chamber.
BOWMAN: Freaking cowards. They're gutless.
MASSIE: What are you talking about?
BOWMAN: I’m talking about gun violence.
MASSIE: You know there’s never been a school shooting in a school –
BOWMAN: I’m talking about gun violence.
MASSIE: – that allows teachers to carry?
BOWMAN: Carry guns? You think – more guns leads to more death.
KING: That's one. And here's Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene and Florida Democrat Jared Moskowitz. She wants to arm the teachers.
CONGRESSWOMAN MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-GA): So, if you want to have a good talk about schools and protecting children, we need to talk about protecting our children the same way we protect our President, we protect our celebrities, we protect this building –
CONGRESSMAN JARED MOSKOWITZ (D-FL): Reclaiming my time. Well, there are six people that are dead in that school, including three children, because you guys got rid of the assault weapons ban. Because you guys made it easy for people who don't deserve to have weapons.
NATE BURLESON: Mmm.
KING: President Biden continues to push for reinstatement of the assault weapons ban that Congress let expire back in 2004. But with Republicans in control of the House, that's looking very unlikely.
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NBC’s Today
March 30, 2023
7:13 a.m. Eastern[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Virgil for Nashville Shooting Victims]
CATIE BECK: All of it as a growing call for change stretches from Nashville to Washington where a renewed push for gun control legislation led to this heated exchange.
CONGRESSMAN JAMAAL BOWMAN (D-NY): They won’t do anything to save the lives of our children.
CONGRESSMAN THOMAS MASSIE (R-KY): Schools that allow teachers to carry –
BOWMAN: Carry guns? You think –
MASSIE: Would you – would you co-sponsor –
BOWMAN: – more guns leads to more death.
BECK: Just one example of the heated divide happening on Capitol Hill as house Democrats are calling for a new assault weapons ban with little to no support from Republicans who control that chamber. And here in Nashville parents and kids will rally at the state capitol later today for tougher gun control measures here in Tennessee.
