Andrea Mitchell Blames ‘the South’ for New York Gun Violence

Andrea Mitchell Blames ‘The South’ for New York Gun Violence (NewsBusters)

During a segment on her Monday MSNBC show using the third anniversary of the Newtown school shooting to demand gun control, host Andrea Mitchell pleaded for national legislation: “Andrew Cuomo, the governor who passed really tough gun legislation in New York....Yet he has said that it is impossible task because you can't do it state by state.”

She claimed states that support gun rights were to blame: “It has to be a national conversation because those guns just come in, in people's trunks from the south and they are actually more valuable because they get sold on the black market in New York City...”

Fellow MSNBC anchor Kate Snow agreed: “Right, one state's law doesn't stop the next state – someone in the next state from having a gun.”