On Tuesday's CNN This Morning, host Kasie Hunt gave no pushback as Congressman Marc Veasey (D-TX) called for more gun control in the aftermath of the Wisconsin school shooting as he also complained about opposition from the NRA.
Even when the Democrat congressman admitted to having doubts about whether more gun control would actually work, the CNN host still did not try to steer to conversation to anything that might actually work -- like arming teachers.
After Congressman Veasey recalled that, while he was working as a teacher, there was a 14-year-old in his school who was caught with a gun he bought on the illegal black market, Hunt followed up: "Do you think that this has become normal in America? And is there anything that can be done about it?"
It's obviously not "normal." But CNN paints America like the most violent nation on Earth. Congressman Veasey then used the tired Democrat playbook of trying to blame the NRA as he responded:
What I really think has happened here is that, you know, it's another case of the group -- and when you talk about the groups and the groups being out of control in D.C., the king of the groups is the NRA. They have way too much power -- way too much control over Republicans and even legislation that, you know, 80, 90 percent of the public supports because the Republicans would rather listen to this group than listen to the American people and get some things done.
The Texas Democrat then argued that, even though he has doubts about whether more gun control would work, it should be passed anyway:
I don't think that it's going to cure everything if we pass some of these more common sense gun safety legislation packages, but at least we're showing the American public that we're trying to do something about this. And we need to do that. Look, there are a lot of guns that are just floating around out there that are on the black market that have been stolen -- guns that the police aren't even -- that the police don't even know have been stolen, but it doesn't mean that we shouldn't do anything. We have to pass just some basic, common-sense gun legislation.
Hunt brought up ghost guns as she followed up: "Do you think that there would be any path in Congress for legislation related to ghost guns? Especially in the wake of the CEO killing where a ghost gun was apparently allegedly used in that murder. Is that an area where Republicans and Democrats could find some common ground?"
Congressman Veasey responded by tying in the NRA again as he called for more regulation of ghost guns:
We would have to go to the NRA website and see what the NRA says about ghost guns because if the NRA has a problem with us doing something about ghost guns. And that means that with a Republican presidency and a Republican House, that means nothing's going to get done on ghost guns.
And so do I think that most Americans would like us to not let someone that is as crazy and demented as this guy that killed the United Healthcare CEO should never be able to make a ghost gun again? And so I do think that most Americans don't want anyone like that to ever be able to make a ghost gun again. But do I think that this body that is led by Republicans are going to do anything? I think they would do something if the NRA told them that it was okay.
