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MSNBC Host: Hopefully Conn. School Shooting Will Provide ‘Political Capital’ to Reform Gun Laws

Dec. 14, 2012 2:46pm Jason Howerton

Shortly after the news broke of the tragic shooting at a Connecticut elementary school on Friday, MSNBC host Alex Wagner was already speculating about how the shooting may provide lawmakers in Washington some “political capital” to “reform” America’s gun laws.

Wagner noted that Friday’s massacre will likely be one of, if not the most deadly school shooting in American history. As of this writing, at least 27 people were confirmed dead; 18 of them young children.

“It is, hopefully — we say this every, single time we cover one of these things — a line in the sand,” Wagner said. “There has got to be some kind of measurable change, some kind of reaction.”

“One would hope that there will be some political capital to reform the way in which we handle gun and gun violence in this country,” she added.

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:16pm
Obama will try and make his move to remove guns now. Let him try.

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- Izzy383
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:55pm
  What the heck is up with MSNBC. First its “Hurricane Sandy was good for the election”. And now “Elementary school massacre could provide political capital”.
  
  Are they even human?
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 4:05pm
  Obama and people like him are the reason.
  
  These children were killed because of an overly tolerant society where personal responsibility has been removed. If you’re fat, it’s not your fault. It’s McDonald’s fault. It’s Coke’s fault. If you do poorly in school, it’s the school’s fault, teacher’s fault, or society’s fault for not funding. If you play in a game, you get a trophy whether you win or lose.
  
  These kids have been taught that everybody is the same, and that there are no losers. When they leave these schools of sameness, equality of talent, reality tells a different story. These kids have been lied to. When they leave, they can not cope. They have no hope. They become angry. They strike out. It’s no accident that many of these killers are young.
  
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- Lee_in_PA
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 4:20pm
  I don’t wish anything on MSNBC but I wonder what they would say if they were the victims of such an incident? It’s not the guns, it’s the mental state of mind of some people.
  
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- psychokittis
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 4:22pm
  Columbine High, Littleton Colorado. Springfield High, Springfield, Oregon. (1998). Gabby Giffords town hall meeting, Tuscon, Arizona(2011). Clackamas Town Center, Happy Valley, Oregon. Newtown Connecticut. Aurora Colorado movie theatre.(2012).
  Horror beyond horror.
  These are not the times to play politics. Even Jay Carney recognizes tish fact.
  Somebody needs to send these media clowns a memo!
  
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- SpankDaMonkey
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 4:37pm
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  ‘POLITICAL CAPITAL’ I sure wish he had done it in your newsroom……..
  
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- THERAPTURCOMES
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 4:48pm
  The blood of those kids is on Obama and every liberal idiot in this country THEY CAUSED THIS http://youtu.be/dozLXYNWYQQ
  
  The only thing the gun free zone did was to aid the murder of those sweet children. It kept law abiding citizens from defending those kids.
  
  Arm the teachers and have armed guards
  
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- pitboss711
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 6:27pm
  And, the anti-gun lobby will keep orchestrating these tragic shootings until he does.
  
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- MittensKittens
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 7:33am
  MSNBC and all the staff will burn in he!! next to adam lanza for using this tragedy for talking points on gun control.
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 1:15pm
  “MSNBC Host: Hopefully Conn. School Shooting Will Provide ‘Political Capital’ to Reform Gun Laws”
  
  Who does this geek think he’s fooling?
  
  He doesn’t give a rat’s ass about this shooting beyond what he can glean from it that will assist him in getting some kind of gun control.
  
  It wasliberalo policies that encourages these kinds of events to occur.
  
  They demonize Christianity to the point where the population no longer observes Christian tenets for the most part, and once this comes about, the consciousless drehs who listen to the likes of him commit crimes without any remorse at all.
  
  “Liberalism is a mental disorder.”
  
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1776freedomofspeech
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:16pm
Winnenden school shooting Winnenden, Germany March 11 2009 16 Former 17-year-old student kills 16, injuring nine others

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1776freedomofspeech
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:15pm
Beslan school hostage crisis Beslan, Russia September 1 2004 385 Attack purpertrated by Chechen Rebels, 31 of which died and 1 was captured

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1776freedomofspeech
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:14pm
The Erfurt massacre was a school shooting that occurred on April 26, 2002, at the Johann Gutenberg Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany. Sixteen people were killed before the perpetrator committed suicide. The victims comprised 13 school staff (12 teachers and one administrator), two students and one police officer. In addition, seven people were injured

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- MGrilla
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 4:28pm
  Do they have gun control there? Or what are their gun laws in comparison to the US?
  
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- psychokittis
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 4:45pm
  @MGRILLA.
  They have some pretty severe gun control laws there. They don’t stop murder.
  
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TheBigKahuna
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:14pm
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Rahm Emanuel

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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 8:03pm
  Believe me, THEY won’t let this one go to waste! an obama tear,
  and the msnbc obamatards are all working this to the hilt, andréa m.
  started the ball rolling two minutes after she first got word of the
  shooting..”Take the Guns”……Good Luck !!
  
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GetA2J
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:14pm
Should have been armed gurrd at school entrance. This would never have happened.

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- watashbuddyfriend
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 4:51pm
  Yes, but Stupidity was in charge!
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:14pm
The regime is somehow behind these shootings. These shooters are somehow led or hypnotized into committing these acts to further obama’s anti-gun stance. The shootings also further Agenda 21′s aims of disarming America. The timing of these shootings are too convenient for obama. Had someone in the school been armed the shooter probably wouldn’t have even considered it. He’d gone to where the ‘pickings’ were easier (unless it is a personal action).

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1776freedomofspeech
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:14pm
Dunblane massacre was a multiple murder-suicide which occurred at Dunblane Primary School in the Scottish town of Dunblane on March 13, 1996. Sixteen children and one adult were killed, in addition to the attacker, who committed suicide. It remains the deadliest attack on children in United Kingdom history

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1776freedomofspeech
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:13pm
The École Polytechnique Massacre, also known as the Montreal Massacre, occurred on December 6, 1989, at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec. Twenty-five-year-old Marc Lépine, armed with a legally obtained semi-automatic rifle and a hunting knife, shot twenty-eight people, killing fourteen (all of them women) and injuring the other fourteen before killing himself

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mermaid7
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:11pm
Then how does Andrea Mitchell explain the story in China where a person killed 22 students with a knife? Are we to have knife control or bans too?

Mitchell needs to look a little closer at our society where political correctness runs amok. We can’t have God in any of our public displays or writings. Praying before games or graduations are not to be tolerated because a handful of atheists don’t want to be offended and we wonder how this could happen.

When we are willing to blame a piece of metal and nothing else, then we have big problems.

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- rickc34
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:25pm
  Exactly, the left removes God and teaches children that there is no God. The left push for womens rights to murder babies in the womb. How many children have died in this manner ? Millions worldwide each year.
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:34pm
  @MerMaid7
  
  She doesn’t explain because it doesn’t help her argument.
  
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- MGrilla
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 4:31pm
  You want to see stupid? We already have knife control law’s look the up, there’s stupid written all-over them.
  
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- MGrilla
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 4:47pm
  @RICK34 , Your absolutely right about that, we get rid of God, and the highest authority is man then it’s an easy solution to your misery, go on a killing spree hurt anything innocent, then kill yourself and there’s no one left to answer to. your dead, so it’s left up to the rest of us to pick up the pieces, because there is no God , no hell, no eternal damnation. “CHANGE” our values, “CHANGE” our God, CHANGE our history and culture, and what do we get.
  
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- coolidge
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 5:02pm
  We have had guns for many years without these mass shootings that keep occurring. What has changed over the last twenty years is our society and our moral standards. We have electronic games where our youth spend hours planning raids and killing images of good guys, bad guys, cops. civilians, and what ever you choose to be. The schools teach liberal philosophy. You can’t discipline your child or the government takes them away. No small coincident that these shootings are by younger people. Ah… life in progressive Amerika. Welcome to the degradation of a moral society. And it will just get worse.
  
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- Dr Vel
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 10:05pm
  Coolidge going further, they want a national discussion. I want to know how many deaths have the youth witnessed from Hollywood by the time they are 20? They tear the heart of God out of society and claim they are moral. How cheap is life to a child brought up having seen a half million murders between video and games in their first two decades of life and what has this liberal dominated Godless culture done to young impressionable minds by the time they make it to adulthood? What needs to stop is the culture of glorified violence and death all in the name of money aimed at the youth in this nation. Why is it every time banning guns is the immediate cry, yet never one time does the left accept responsibility nor ever mention the never ending violence they expose children to while growing up. All this at the same time they work to destroy all aspects of any kind of moral compass, which through history has come from belief in a creator and the knowledge there will be an accounting when it’s all said and done. Actors demanding removal of guns who make millions spewing death on the screen. Where were metal detectors and armed police which is the first line of defense? How did the weapons get into the school? Every time mass death occurs no one was armed who could have stopped it at the beginning. Arm teachers, arm citizens. Killers would not get many shots off. Watch Code of Silence, cop bar robbery stopped by 50 guns in their faces, by armed people. Discuss this.
  
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bigbear_awake
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:09pm
union thug to get berry to do gun control never let a crises go to waste

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OUTLAW_WEALTH
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:08pm
Let’s ban doctors and medical drugs. They are the third leading cause of death.

It’s called Death By Medicine:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/11/26/death-by-medicine-part-one.aspx

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TruthPolice60
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:08pm
Should people be allowed to carry concealed weapons? No. They should be REQUIRED to carry concealed weapons to stop crimes like this and others.

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uzeguize
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:07pm
Let’s put it this way. When you get rid of the loonies, COMMIES and jihadists forever I will consider giving up my gun. Until then don’t even speak to me.

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bigbear_awake
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:07pm
its one of the lefts guy all planned to get gun control

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OUTLAW_WEALTH
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:07pm
Yeah, we’ll give you your political capital.

You can keep Washington DC and the Bureaucrats, and we’ll take the rest of the country.

Then you’ll have to pry it from our cold, dead, hands.

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hunter1riley
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:05pm
Never let a crisis go to waste…

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JimCS
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:04pm
When you believe there is no God…. when you believe there is no Devil….. what, then, mitigates your behavior? If you believe you will simply die and cease to exist, what is to prevent you from deciding on this kind of path? Taking God out of this country has allowed Satan to sweep in. Claiming you don’t believe in them doesn’t matter any more than claiming you don’t believe in gravity before you jump from the bridge.

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- mermaid7
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:12pm
  You are 100% right.
  
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- usedCZARsalesman
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:17pm
  You are 100% right JIM…this is the main reason I hate that “good without God” crap that atheists try and pull. Just because EVERY atheist (or even the majority) doesn’t go around killing children (although they actually do, it’s called abortion and its just as sick and wrong as this) doesn’t mean that a godless society doesn’t CREATE these kinds of monsters by removing a moral authority…just too bad we are simply too far gone to come back now, all we can do is sit back and watch the world burn
  
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- Vampanas
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 6:50pm
  You are ignorant and close minded. As an atheist, I can speak for our majority and say that this is a sick and terrible crime. I live by morals, which I don’t need a god to provide. It’s unnecessary to judge so unfairly, especially at a time when we should all stand together instead of pointing fingers.
  
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- JimCS
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 7:25pm
  The problem is not one of closemindedness. It is not one of labeling all atheists as lacking moral character. There are plenty of religious people who have done equally appalling things. It is a question of an entire nation lacking a moral anchor point. A constant standard, never subject to the vagaries of man, that acts as a pivot point around which our society turns and uses as a compass to orient itself. That is the hazard of a Godless world. Right now, somewhere in the country tonight, another anchorless, drifting soul is convincing himself, rationalizing something unspeakable. If he is deaf to God’s law who WILL he listen too? Each act of violence is spread across the world, creating a morbid kind of celebrity that speaks louder than the pleading of God to be kind, humble, and penitent. The gun is a facilitator of that obscene celebrity. It could just as easily be a fertilizer bomb or a car careening into a crowd. The root cause is the Godless soul of this country.
  
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Rowgue
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:02pm
I love how the insane laws they’ve already passed keep getting ruled unconstitutional over and over again, yet they keep trying to pass more laws that are just as if not more unconstitutional than the ones already struck down.

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fatsomann
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:00pm
Anything to further the agenda.

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AlansTigg
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:59pm
What a souless, selfish idiot…guns are not the problem…attitudes like this are, the complete lack of compassion for others…how cold hearted do you have to be to disregard the suffering of so many to take advantage of a tragedy to get what you want???? This monster killed babies and this pathetic excuse for a human being only sees opportunity. I truly weep for our country, and this world

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gingerbread
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:58pm
Ooops, here we go again. No one is saying anything about the two perps that did the killing. This I will tell all of you, if it’s in your mind to kill people, you certainly don’t need a gun to do it. You can spread Sarin gas, you can slash them with machetes, you can really do whatever your evil mind decides to do. Let’s put this another way: Automobiles kills about 40 to 50 thousand people a year, Shoulkd we ban auto mobiles? Probably not. So, this is another attempt by the government to take away your freedoms, and they will find a way to do so, one way or another.

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Advection
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:56pm
The anti-gun lobby love tragedies involving dead babies. These people are excited today. Stand by for their speeches, starting with Obama.

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- timic13
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 7:43am
  So, so true…and this is ALL their signature legislation accomplishes…kill babies. Abortion has been legal since Roe vs Wade and yet it continues to be a hot button for all…take a look at what has happened to television, the movies, games, and even how we wage war…Nowhere do we see family values being heralded…Leave it to Beaver, Donna Reed, Father Knows Best…Miracle on 34th Street, The Bible…no, not now…it is all Kill, Kill, Kill…we are even waging WAR now by remote control…the devaluation of life Roe vs Wade propelled has created yet another low in the daily life of America and especially so in the homes of some 26 families. Hope the left is happy with their results!
  
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h20sue
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:56pm
CBS reported the shooter was only 20 years of age. Now they are reporting he’s 24 years of age and of legal age to purchase these hand guns, etc. If he had no prior criminal record, he would have been cleared to purchase anything he wanted. Just like anyone else. No one can predict when some one goes off their rocker, and just because this happens, it should not reflect on responsible gun owners. It’s a tragedy, it’s sad, it’s unfathamble, but we can’t control people who want to kill. They will find a way to get these guns one way on another. Obviously this 24 year old planned this prior to the shooting. I pray for all the families involved and the shooters father. He has to be devastated.

Hopefully peace and love will heal the families of those lost. Our prayers are with each and everyone.

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DougHuffman
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:52pm
What is doing the same old thing over and over while hoping for different effects called, HOPE AND CHANGE? Nope, crazy.

Good people ought to be armed as they will, with wits and Guns and the Truth. God Bless Bitter Clingers, damn know-nothings, progressives. “From my cold, dead hands” works for me.

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