NEWS BUSTERS 7 Hours Ago MSNBC's Thomas Roberts Uses Boston Bombing to Prompt Guest Push for Gun Control by Jeffrey Meyer Leave it to Thomas Roberts to not let a tragedy go to waste. Appearing on his daily MSNBC show on April 22, Roberts felt it appropriate to use last Monday's deadly terrorist bombing in Boston to push for federal gun control legislation. Speaking with Patricia Maisch, survivor of the Tucson shooting which critically wounded former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.), Roberts noted that the brothers Tsarnaev, residents of Massachusetts, did NOT legally own the firearms they used in a shootout with police last Thursday. Roberts followed this up by wildly speculating about the connection between this and new gun control legislation asking Ms. Maisch, " Do you think this terror attack would put a new heat on lawmakers for tighter gun laws? " Maisch responded as such: "Do you think this terror attack would put a new heat on lawmakers for tighter gun l...