MSNBC’s Roberts Asks if ‘Jumbo Clips’ and Semi-Automatic Rifles Should Be Banned

MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts Asks If ‘Jumbo Clips,’ Semi-Automatic Rifles Should Be Banned (The Washington Free Beacon)

MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts asked Rep. Bill Johnson (R., Ohio) on Monday whether “jumbo clips” and semi-automatic rifles ought to be banned in the wake of the terrorist attack on San Bernardino, California.

 “Congressman, when we come to the topic of gun control and we look at massacre patterns in this country, schools, clinics, churches, army bases, movie theaters, shopping malls, now an agency for the disabled, isn’t it common sense to evaluate who cares what these extremists are, whether they’re mentally challenged or religious zealots, they have too much free and easy access to build an arsenal to go massacre Americans in a movie theater or a center for the disabled?” Roberts said. “Can’t we do something to make it a little less easy?”

 “Thomas, California has some of the most rigorous and strict gun laws in our nation and yet these terrorists were still able to acquire their firepower that they used in that tragedy,” Johnson responded. “I can tell you, I don’t believe that restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is going to stop that problem.”