On this past weekend’s The Saturday Show, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart teamed up with anti-gun activist Dr. Jonathan Metzl to spread misinformation about the effects of gun laws as the two discussed his book on the 25th anniversary of the Columbine school shootings.
As the discussion turned to the 2018 attack on a Nashville Waffle House by 29-year-old Travis Reinking, Dr. Metzl reflexively blamed Tennessee’s “pathologically loose gun laws” without divulging that the gunman had only somewhat recently moved into Tennessee from the blue state of Illinois. He soon complained about Tennessee expanding gun rights since the shooting:
And so, instead, what we’ve seen is a dramatic expansion in every kind of law that led to the shooting. People can carry guns without permits now. We’re arming teachers, long guns to people with 18 and older, so we have this total…
