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Condescending CNN Looks to Mexico, Venezuela to Lecture U.S. on Gun Policy
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 08/07/2019 10:01:07 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

When it comes to guns, the United States really needs to take lessons from the rest of the world. From enlightened, low-crime countries. You know: like Mexico. And Venezuela.

That was the thrust of a hand-wringing CNN segment this morning. Narrated by Brit CNN correspondent Nick Paton Walsh, the chyron set the tone: "World Puzzled as U.S. Grapples with Latest Mass Shootings."

Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: banglist; cnn; guncontrol; massshootings; media; mexico; msm; venezuela
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1 posted on 08/07/2019 10:01:07 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

CNN needs to go off the air.


2 posted on 08/07/2019 10:01:57 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent.)
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To: miss marmelstein; patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; ...

Thanks, CNN> Yeah, we should definitely look to Mexico and Venezuela to tell us how to deal with crime.

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


3 posted on 08/07/2019 10:02:19 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReep mail me to be added to my Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The Ministry of Propaganda are beclowning themselves.

Maybe they’ll use Nazi Germany next.

They had great gun control........


4 posted on 08/07/2019 10:04:24 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Of course CNN (Communist News Network) wants the citizenry disarmed. How else can they send patriots to reeducation camps?


5 posted on 08/07/2019 10:06:30 AM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I first thought that they were moving there. Damn.


6 posted on 08/07/2019 10:07:05 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Organized Crime is now in charge of the District of Corruption)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Actually England is a very good example of the failure of gun control.

Before around 1919, Britain had virtually no gun control laws. They had almost no crime. According to British Constable Colin Greenwood, the number of armed robberies per year in the entire country could be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Britain has passed increasingly harsh gun control laws and at the same time crime has increased by a huge amount. Now England has a higher crime rate than the U.S. in some areas.

In burglary of occupied dwellings they are way, way higher than the U.S. I also wonder who is committing most of the murders?


7 posted on 08/07/2019 10:08:55 AM PDT by yarddog
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CNN is ATT

ATT subscribers should dump ATT. That can happen today.


8 posted on 08/07/2019 10:14:24 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Hey, Stupid, how about all the Muslim problems you have in your country. At least our problem is limited to a few nut jobs. Your entire country’s at risk.


9 posted on 08/07/2019 10:16:20 AM PDT by econjack
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

They are now officially a children’s news network. It works. CNN. Children’s News Network.


10 posted on 08/07/2019 10:17:33 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

No, the lesson that needs to be hammered home is that every nation in history that enslaved their people first disarmed them.

Bottom line; end of story.


11 posted on 08/07/2019 10:25:49 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

CNN goes to Venezuela to get some recipes for their Feature page.

Cat Casserole

Elephant Under Glass

Grass Gumbo


12 posted on 08/07/2019 10:33:28 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Now THAT’S funny

THEIR society is SO violent that their criminals are running up here for refuge and THEY want to lecture US on crime? Really???


13 posted on 08/07/2019 10:59:48 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yeah....Venezuela can’t even keep toilet paper on the shelves.


14 posted on 08/07/2019 11:01:10 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Listening to clown Brown crying about gun control along with the other broad whoever she is.

Totally cynical political opportunists.


15 posted on 08/07/2019 11:06:56 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's a highway to hell.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Does CNN want to look to those countries for immigration policies too?


16 posted on 08/07/2019 11:07:00 AM PDT by FreedomOfExpression
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A Brit lecturing us on crime. This is another reason I don’t particularly like the British.


17 posted on 08/07/2019 11:30:50 AM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I wish I remember the name of the documentary but it was about citizens arming themselves and creating citizen armies in Mexico. What did the government do? Came in and took away their weapons saying it was dangerous? LOL. They come into Narco country, where the Narco armies are armed to the teeth and remove from innocent civilians the one thing they could count on to keep safe.


18 posted on 08/07/2019 11:58:19 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Mexico has gun control..lol.


19 posted on 08/07/2019 11:59:53 AM PDT by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: Gene Eric

That sort of call to action makes some sense. It really doesn’t take the full reality into consideration though.

I’ve had an account with AT&T clear back into the early 1970s when it was Pacific Bell. I’ve gone through their name changes until now, and I’m not going to switch my 47 year business relationship with them any time soon.

As soon as I change to another service, they could just as easily do something I don’t like, and then I’d be on to a third carrier and shortly after that on to a third or fourth...

I do believe we should contact the people we do business with and tell them we do not approve.

Businesses these days don’t seem concerned about the bottom line. Gillette isn’t crying uncle and they got stung pretty bad.

While I agree with you on principle, I also have to look at the reality of it.

Cancelling my account isn’t going to do a hill of beans worth of good.


20 posted on 08/07/2019 1:11:03 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent.)
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