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MSNBC Exploits LAX Shooting With Gun Control Falsehoods

by Jeff Dunetz

On Friday afternoon, MSNBC went wall-to-wall with live coverage of the tragic shooting at LAX. Anchoring the coverage was MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart, who added commentary along with guests Professor James Peterson, Director of African Studies at Lehigh University, and Heather McGhee, VP of the public policy organizationDemos.

Returning to the studio after a police press conference, the three began a lament about the power of the NRA, which was not only void of facts, but inappropriate at a time when the story was still developing:

Capehart:

Heather, in its latest filing, the NRA said had it had almost $11 million on hand and it's going to take some big bucks to win any gun control argument.

McGhee:

I'm really glad you bring that up. Because, I mean, we need to look at the campaign finance reform system. I was thinking, what could the President do on this? Maybe push for campaign finance reform and actually at the state look what happened in Colorado. You know, the site of Aurora and also Columbine, really common sense gun safety regulations. And two of the state legislators -- most people in their districts had no idea who they were. And suddenly we had over $3 million being spent from outside spending. Including NRA, which gets so much money from gun manufacturers. We really are going to have -- keep having these distortions in our democracy until we the campaign finance system.

Ms. McGhee's estimate of the spending in Colorado's recall election is way off. The estimate of spending for the NRA and other conservative groups was between $400,000 and $500,000. The majority of the spending in the campaign came from New York's soda-stopping Mayor Bloomberg and other liberal political groups, unions and activists. Liberal spending was estimated at $3 million.

Capehart:

James, I want your view on that. What do you think of that?

Peterson:

I agree with Heather completely here that some of -- if you're concerned about the over influence or potential for groups like the NRA to intervene in our policy processes and elections in ways that seem unfair, that gets back to campaign finance reform, that gets back to things like Citizens United and honestly, remember, the NRA is less about the Second Amendment and more about gun manufacturers. It's really driven by people who sell guns to other people, and if you think about that, that's where it gets really sick.

The Professor's facts are wrong. The NRA's biggest funding chunk ismembership and member donations.

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