Here's a recent interview that looks sillier after the Paris attacks. Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe on November 11, liberal Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein attempted to lecture Senator Lindsey Graham about the threat posed by ISIS and wildly asserted that gun violence in America was a greater threat than terrorists.
“There are vastly more people in this country who die from guns than from terrorism,” Stein said as Graham talked over him. “Why isn’t that more of an existential threat than terrorism? There are vastly, vastly more people who die in this country because of guns. Right? I mean the numbers are there.”
Graham shot back: “So you think that, that our problem in the country is with our gun laws is a bigger threat to our way of life than a bunch of terrorists who’d kill everybody if they could?”
Stein talked over him: “If you look at it strictly from a numerical standpoint.”
Graham kept talking: “Boy, you don’t understand the enemy, and you’re a nice fella. [Stein laughs] Listen to what they’re doing. They are taking every Christian they can find and killing them simply because they’re Christian. They’re doing worse to Muslims simply because they don’t agree with their way of life. They would kill everybody in Israel if they could get a hold of them. If they had a weapon of mass destruction, they would use it.”
The senator finished by suggesting ISIS were like religious Nazis, but worse than the Nazis were.
