MSNBC Guest Blames Colorado Shooting on Open Carry Law

‘One of the other lessons about what happened here is that open carry laws, even though many police, sheriff departments in Colorado support them, make it much harder for law enforcement to do their jobs’

METZL: "Well, I mean, I think one of the other lessons about what happened here is that open carry laws, even though many police, sheriff departments in Colorado support them, make it much harder for law enforcement to do their jobs."
HARRIS-PERRY: "Yep."
METZL: "We’ve had a shooting in Colorado Springs around Halloween where someone called 911 and said there’s someone with a long gun walking around and 911 almost hung up on them because everyone —"
HARRIS: "That’s right, we’ve got open carry, so can’t do anything."

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