Another one to hurt you brain

[brutal]

As seen on Drudge

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newsbusters.org
CNN's Lemon Goes on Anti-Gun Tirade, Calls for Assault Weapons Ban
CNN anchor Don Lemon went on an anti-gun rant on Monday morning and called for an assault weapons ban. Lemon is only the latest CNN anchor to abandon journalistic standards and push for gun control.

"We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets. They should only be available to police officers and to hunt al-Qaeda and the Taliban and not hunt elementary school children," an emotional Lemon appealed. [Video below the break. Audio here.]

"Yeah – yes, we need to address mental health, but mental health in this particular issue, let's not get it twisted, is a secondary issue. If someone who has a mental issue did not have access to guns that should only be available in war zones, we would not be dealing with this," he responded to CNN contributor Will Cain's argument that the mental health of the shooter was the paramount problem.

"Who needs an armor-piercing bullet to go hunting? Who needs an assault rifle to go hunting?" Lemon argued against the legality of assault weapons.

A transcript of the segment, which aired on CNN Newsroom on December 17 at 9:48 a.m. EST, is as follows:

[9:48]

DON LEMON: Listen. For the past three days, I have been on the verge of tears every second and most of the people here have been crying 24 hours straight. Yeah – yes, we need to address mental health, but mental health in this particular issue, let's not get it twisted, is a secondary issue. If someone who has a mental issue did not have access to guns that should only be available in war zones, we would not be dealing with this.

Who needs an armor-piercing bullet to go hunting? Who needs an assault rifle to go hunting? You can't even use the prey that you kill with an assault rifle if you indeed do it. No one needs an assault rifle to go out and shoot a deer. No one needs an assault rifle that's capable of shooting 10, 20, 30 rounds off at the same time to shoot a duck, or to shoot quail. It does not make sense. Our first – the first thing that we need to do – and according to everyone that is here, even gun enthusiasts, is talk about what we're doing with assault rifles, why should guns that should only be available in war zones, why are they available to people who are mentally healthy and people who are not mentally healthy. That's the issue that we need to deal with.

So to say that gun violence is down does not make sense, and to me is insulting to everyone who lost a loved one here and is dealing with that. It doesn't matter if gun violence is down, 26 children – 20 children are dead here, and six adults are dead, and the mother of a person who's not mentally up – who's mentally challenged in some way is – she's dead. So to say that gun violence is down and we need to talk about mental health – yes, mental health is a secondary issue. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets. They should only be available to police officers and to hunt al Qaeda and the Taliban and not hunt elementary school children.


So much fail in here, he may have set a record for the most number of inaccurate " facts" of any media rant to date

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[Irving]

His right ear looks fake.

[bryjcom]

CNN is finally admitting what they've been all along. For so long now the pretended to be the balance to Fox and MSNBC. Things don't look good for us.

[BuffCyclist]

You can't even use the prey that you kill with an assault rifle if you indeed do it. No one needs an assault rifle to go out and shoot a deer. No one needs an assault rifle that's capable of shooting 10, 20, 30 rounds off at the same time to shoot a duck, or to shoot quail.

[Assault rifles] should only be available to police officers and to hunt al Qaeda and the Taliban and not hunt elementary school children.

Never shot a deer, but I'm pretty sure you could still use the meat even if it had lots of holes in it.


I may need to get an assault rifle. I wasn't aware they could shot 10,20,30 rounds off AT THE SAME TIME! And who uses an assault rifle to go duck or quail shooting? Has this guy never heard of a shotgun, which is designed for shooting fowl?!

I'd like to say that I speak for everyone here when I say that we own (or owned, until that fateful, fateful boating incident) AR15s (which are NOT assault rifles) because we are preparing to "hunt al Qaeda and the Taliban". Simple as that. As a Boy Scout growing up, we were taught to "Be Prepared". What better way to Be Prepared than to have the weapons necessary to kill al Qaeda and the Taliban when they show up on my doorsteps?

His right ear looks fake.

Really? You clicked the link and presumably read the article and that is ALL you have to add?!

[68Charger]

Really? You clicked the link and presumably read the article and that is ALL you have to add?!

Hey, it was more logical and thought provoking than anything Lemon said!

[HoneyBadger]

As seen on Drudge...

Lemon is only the latest CNN anchor to abandon journalistic standards and push for gun control.

Wait, journalistic what? I've never heard of such a thing!

[Ronin13]

Knee jerk reactionary reporting... CNN is not news, journalism is dead. That's really all I have.