New York Times reporter Peter Baker appeared disappointed Wednesday that a shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school wouldnât cause âa lot to changeâ on gun control.
An active shooter opened fire during an all-school mass held by the Annunciation Catholic School on Wednesday morning, killing two children and wounding at least 17 other people. MSNBC host Chris Jansing questioned if a ban on so-called âassault weaponsâ would pass after the incident.
âFor decades, weâve heard Democrats talk about better, stronger national gun laws. Even if there was any movement in that direction, obviously itâs not going to happen overnight,â Jansing said. âTrump is now saying, I can fix this. There was a new poll out from the Associated Press. 81% see crime as a major problem in large cities. 53% approve of his handling of crime. So as Democrats, is there any sense that they can take a moment, a horrific moment like this, kids sitting in pews, literally getting shot to death and try to do something to help it from stopping again, particularly as it comes to assault weapons?â
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âWell, it feels like weâre in a loop, right? That we have seen this happen so many times before, and the reactions of the political class are fairly predictable. You know, Democrats instantly call for more restrictions on guns. Republicans, most of them pretty quickly say, this is not about guns. Donât try to take our guns away,â Baker responded.
Baker said that at one point, President Donald Trump backed some gun control measures and had talked about taking on the National Rifle Association, but had instead loosened regulations imposed by the Biden administration.
âAssault weaponsâ is a euphemism that gun-control advocates use to gain support for banning certain semi-automatic firearms with features that provide a cosmetic similarity to firearms capable of fully-automatic operation. The National Shooting Sports Foundation estimated that over 24 million âmodern sporting rifles,â which include the AR-15, are âin circulationâ in a July 2022 release.
âWhat has incorrectly been termed an âassault weaponâ is a semi-automatic firearm that fires just one bullet with each pull of the trigger (versus a fully automatic firearm â machine gun â which continues to shoot until the trigger is released),â the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) said in a fact sheet.
âI wouldnât expect a lot to change here. I think we would see this pattern,â Baker said. âAnd if things like Newtown, the shooting at the school there years ago wouldnât change things, if shootings at Charleston, the Mother Emanuel Church wouldnât change things, itâs hard to see what at this point would be enough to move the political conversation.â
CNN Senior Justice Correspondent Evan Perez inaccurately claimed Wednesday that semiautomatic firearms could fire âdozens of bulletsâ with a single pull of the trigger while covering a Minneapolis shooting. Information on how semi-automatic firearms operate is available on numerouswebsites easily accessible through a simple search on the internet conducted by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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