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Brokaw: Silence On Gun Violence Akin To Failing To Oppose Segregation in 60s
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/17/2013 5:02:30 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Talk about your strained analogies . . . Tom Brokaw has analogized people unwilling support measures aimed at limiting gun violence to those during the 1960s who were unwilling to speak out againt the likes of Bull Connor.

Brokaw made his remarks on today's Morning Joe. While asserting that he favored a "holistic" approach to gun violence, including addressing video games and the coarsening of the culture, Brokaw did remark that "guns are the endgame."

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KEYWORDS: civilrights; guncontrol; morningjoe; secondamendment; tombrokaw
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Brokaw better not come back to his native South Dakota where hunting is a major business and gun racks in pick up trucks are common.


61 posted on 01/17/2013 8:05:58 AM PST by The Great RJ
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