Dana Loesch: ‘We Don’t Have a Gun Problem, We Have a Criminal Problem’

‘Can we also bring up the fact that this was racially charged, racially motivated crime’

KELLY: “Serious questions tonight about the killer in Virginia and whether he should have been able to get a gun. Dana Loesch and Bill Burton are back with me now. So that’s the question, Dana, if he passed a background check, what laws could be tightened to prevent somebody like this from getting a gun?”

LOESCH: “Exactly. And if he passed a background check, then there already been questions about his behavior, then the question become why wasn't this reported as we saw in the Gifford shooting. You had an individual who had been kicked off Pima Community College and that had been reported to the sheriff's office, nobody followed up on it. Virginia Tech, same thing. The problem, Megyn, that we see each and every single time is that you have an abundance of laws and you have people, including states and local officials who do not follow those laws. And I want to bring up something really quickly as well. Everyone is focusing on the gun. Can we also bring up the fact that this is a racially charged, racially motivated crime by somebody who had a grievance? And I think there is all too often a focus on the tool instead of the hate in someone's heart.”

KELLY: “You know, we saw this, Bill, and we've seen this in other cases where a disgruntled employee goes back to the place of business and takes the live of his co-workers. I mean, we did a special on somebody who did it, he beheaded a woman with a knife. It’s -- you can take away the weapon. But shouldn’t we be focusing on taking away the will to murder and is that even possible in 2015 United States of America?”

BURTON: “Well, it would be great if we could take away the will to murder. But the answer can't be ‘do nothing.’ If people are repeatedly being killed with guns – there’s not a lot of beheadings in the United States… But guns are what's at the center every single time. And yes, we should focus on the fact that that's the weapon being used. Because more people get killed with guns in the United States than any other country in the world and there has to be something we can do about it. It can't just be, well, background checks can't save us every single time. It ought to be what the heck are we going to do to save the United States of America from the gun problem that it has right now.”

KELLY: “What about that Dana?”

LOESCH: “We don't have a gun problem. We have a criminal problem. We have a society that thinks it's completely permissible to shirk responsibility. We have people who have no problem with what Planned Parenthood does in terms of fetal parts harvesting. We don't teach a respect for life. We glorify violence in movie, music, film and books. This is what our society is. This is Frankenstein's monster. This is what society has created. It is a reflection of us. And as I said, criminals are always going to be with us. I've had my life protected with a gun. I don't want that right taken from me."

 

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