Fox News host: People in Australia ‘have no freedom’ because hate speech and guns are regulated
The hosts of Fox & Friends asserted on Sunday that mass shootings could be prevented by banning “gun free zones” instead of passing the type gun safety laws that have worked in Australia.
During a segment about the massacre at Umpqua Community College, Fox News host Tucker Carlson praised Donald Trump for blaming the shooting on campus gun bans.
“When there’s a drunk driving accident, you don’t ban cars, you try to prevent drunk people from driving them,” Carlson opined. “The idea that taking guns away from the law abiding will make us safer is insane and childish.”
Co-host Anna Kooiman argued that “the number of guns in American households has actually gone down” as the number of mass shootings increase so guns could not be at fault.
“The other side of the that argument, of course, is — and what people always throw out there — is look at Australia,” co-host Clayton Morris noted. “They have no gun violence, they don’t have guns, citizens aren’t allowed to have guns.”
“They also have no freedom!” Carlson interrupted. “You can go to prison for expressing unpopular views and people do. And in Western Europe by the way. And in Canada. No one ever says that.”
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“Would [the Umpqua shooter] have been going there in the first place if it wasn’t a gun free zone?” Kooiman declared. “That’s why we’re seeing these mass shootings happen. It’s not in places where you know there’s going to be guns.”
The SBS television network explains that Australia’s hate speech laws rarely result in penalties and “no-one ever goes to jail.”
Watch the video below from Fox News, broadcast Oct. 4, 2015.
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One of the comedian's listeners asked Hughley on social media whether he could be friends with a "staunch" Trump supporter, and he said "hell, no."
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During his fact-checking segment on CNN's "New Day," contributor John Avlon blasted Senate Republicans for doing Donald Trump's bidding and killing two election security bills that could help hinder Russian interference in U.S. elections.
With Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) already taking heat (and being dubbed #MoscowMitch) for shutting down the two bills, Avlon asserted that it was obvious the GOP feels the president may need help being re-elected.
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The Senate majority leader blocked two election security bills twice this week, despite warnings from U.S. officials and former special counsel Robert Mueller that the Kremlin was actively engaged in efforts to interfere with the 2020 election -- and McConnell prevented the Obama administration from warning Americans about Russian meddling in 2016.
"Robert Mueller testified that not only did Russia try to interfere with our 2016 election and not only did Donald Trump's -- all of his intelligence community and Kirstjen Nielsen, when she was at Homeland Security, said Russia undermined American democracy in 2016," Scarborough said. "We remember back then the warnings came, but 'Moscow Mitch,' that being Mitch McConnell, of Moscow, Kentucky, actually blocked that and said he threatened the people that were going to try to get that information out to warn Americans."
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