Ana Kasparian Quotes
I think it's safe to say that mass shootings pose a gigantic threat to national security.
Kasparian, Ana. "The NRA is a terrorist organization — and it's time we treated them like one." Raw Story, 4 Dec. 2015.
This was his commentary in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech massacre by a deranged student who bought two powerful guns and killed 32 people on campus.
This quotation was particularly shocking to many conservative Republicans for whom it was a fundamental principle that the government should do nothing about gun control and the issue of gun accessibility. Hyde, breaking what had been a conservative wall of silence, had generally been a legislator of great principle who put national and public interest above that of party when critical problems as he saw them were at stake.
Like many other ideologues, the Senator was a better politician than he was a historian. He had a tendency to not be very accurate in his facts. In this particular gaff, which was castigated by critics, he was wrong about both facts he gave. First, not only was it not the case that there were few gun crimes “back then”. See {640086} and {640085} . Second his implication that everyone carried guns, and the guns were responsible for the “low” gun crime rate, was also false. Gun crime was so prevalent that most towns and cities in the West had gun control ordinances prohibiting carrying guns in the city limits. The famous Gunfight at the OK Corral which the Senator cited was in Tombstone, AZ in 1881. At that time, it was illegal to carry a gun in Tombstone. See {640063} for the gun control ordinance. As a matter of fact, the OK Corral gunfight was fought because Sheriff Wyatt Earp was disarming some cowboys who brought their guns to town. Glen Kessler, The Washington Post fact checker gave this quotation “3 Pinocchios”.
Anahit Misak "Ana" Kasparian is an American progressive political commentator, media host, university instructor, and journalist. She is the main host and a producer of the online news show The Young Turks, having begun working as a fill-in producer for the show in 2007. She also appeared on the television version of the show that aired on Current TV. She formerly hosted The Point on the TYT Network and currently co-hosts a Jacobin YouTube show, Weekends with Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila.
