NRA TV host: Obama should apologize to Parkland kids who got shot over a year after he left office

NRA TV host Grant Stinchfield said that former President Barack Obama should apologize for teenagers in Parkland, Florida who were shot more than a year after the end of his presidency.

In a Friday afternoon rant, Stinchfield angrily reacted to Obama's essay in Time in which he singled out the importance of the gun control movement being led by teenage Parkland survivors.

Despite the fact that Obama was not in office at the time of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, Stinchfield nonetheless pinned the blame on the former president because of policies he enacted that supposedly stopped authorities from arresting shooter Nikolas Cruz before he could carry out his shooting rampage.

"If Barack Obama is writing anything that deals with the Parkland students, it should be an apology," he said. "His liberal no-discipline-for-rule-breakers policy was a contributing factor that enabled the shooter to wreak the havoc that he did... It was Obama's school discipline policies that prevented faculty members from having students arrested, even for severe and repeated discipline issues."

Although the Obama-era guidelines encouraged schools to explore alternatives to having students arrested or expelled over discipline issues, there is nothing in those guidelines that would have prevented school employees from contacting the police if they believed a student posed a violent threat to themselves and others.

Stinchfield was also agitated by Obama's praise for the Black Lives Matter movement, which the NRA TV host tried to depict as a violent gang.

"NRA members don't burn down cities and we don't incite riots against our police!" he fumed. "The leaders of Black Lives Matters Do!"

Watch the video below.

“If @BarackObama is writing anything that deals with the Parkland students it should be an apology. His liberal no-discipline-for-rule-breakers policy was a contributing factor that enabled the shooter to wreak the havoc that he did.” –@stinchfield1776#NRA#NationalSchoolWalkoutpic.twitter.com/sU4wabaCJH

— NRATV (@NRATV) April 20, 2018