Nation World News’s Jim Acosta confronts a National Rifle Association board member over the recent horrific mass shootings and the group’s resistance to allowing legislative changes that could have stopped them.
“For years, your group has blocked new gun safety laws and insisted on the most relaxed rules on firearms,” Acosta opened the interview with Kansas Republican Judge Philip Journey. “Isn’t some of this blood in the hands of the NRA?”
Journey told Acosta, “I don’t believe the conjecture of your question is accurate,” and argued that the NRA and he, as a former Kansas state senator, “worked to tighten the laws.”
Acosta interrupted and advised that he was biting her because he was “saying things that are not true.”
“The NRA has pushed for years, decades, to have the easiest regulations possible in this country and that is why we have mass shooting after mass shooting,” he said. “Please if you can answer the question I asked you at the beginning of the interview. Isn’t this blood on your hands?”
Journey replied: “I am not a trigger puller and neither am a member of the National Rifle Association.”
He cited the shooter who killed ten people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, earlier this month, as an example, noting that “the alarm was going off” whether the shooter was trying to harm himself or others. There was a threat, but “nobody has done” anything.”
Acosta used those same facts to argue in favor of stricter laws.
“Well, if he’s a troubled young man, should he be able to go out and buy an AR-15 assault rifle … that happened in Buffalo,” he said.
Acosta pressures an NRA board member to explain why the organization decided not to cancel its annual convention in Houston, Texas, within hours after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde Went.
“How is any of this fair?” He asked, noting that the event had a “celebratory atmosphere” and that former President Donald Trump was seen dancing on stage after his speech.
“He wasn’t. I was there. He wasn’t dancing,” Journey said of Trump.
Trump danced. It was on video. It came at the end of a lengthy speech that included tributes to dead children in Uvalde, whose names Trump misspelled.
The visit appeared to miss the point, arguing that Acosta was only “telling part of the story” as Trump made a “very memorable memorial to the victims” at the start of the speech and “made comments that were very appropriate.” ”
Even after the Uvalde shooting, the deadliest school shooting in Texas history, most elected Republicans refuse to blame guns and lax gun laws on the astronomically high number of mass shootings in the United States compared to their peers. .
Hundreds of people gathered outside the Houston NRA convention over the weekend to protest and call for gun law reform.
