MSNBC’s Joy Reid went after America’s gun culture in her monologue for Monday’s “The Readout,” punctuating her hard-to-arguy polemic with an image from this month’s NRA convention in Indianapolis, in which A young boy points a pistol straight at him. on a camera.
“Americans buy millions of guns a month and keep buying more, feeding a booming industry that can’t market its bloody business to other parts of the world where they have real gun laws, so they sell all their resources Americans pump into fueling sick passions, not only promoting guns but recklessly allowing them to be used — legally — on fellow Americans, with barely a second thought,” Reid said.
She then moved on to porn, mocking gun-loving right-wing conspiracy theorists for running into one of her favorite refrains.
“Want to talk about grooming?” Reid asked before pulling up a striking photo shot by Reuters of a 6-year-old boy pointing a gun straight at the camera.
“It’s a disturbing image, no doubt about it,” Reed said. “But perhaps more troubling is how adults are training their children to worship the weapons of war,” Reid said.
As unsettling as perception may be, this is not a new development as the NRA merry-go-round continues unabated. Actually, a search From the Getty Images Archive The NRA’s annual convention shows several similar photos from at least 2007 of kids shooting guns.
In the “Gun Culture” section, along with video from a “Moral Monday Rally” in Nashville to “oppose deadly gun culture in America”, Reid breaks down recent developments, including another “weekend of bloodshed” and massive gun violence. But the crowd was involved. Shooting since the burial of the children of Nashville.
Monday’s headlines included the news that an 84-year-old white man Is Went charged with two felonies After shooting a black teen who had walked to the man’s door in Kansas City, Missouri, mistakenly thinking his siblings had been picked up there.
“It’s an instant gun culture and the sense of carnage and death that comes with it,” Reid said. “The fear, the violence — they can feel invincible, even all-consuming at times. It’s not just because of American indifference to gun violence. It’s more than that. It feels like this country’s Some parts are engaged in a celebration of gun violence, a reverence and devotion that has turned America into the most heavily armed civilian population in the word – a virtual shooting gallery.
“This is an agenda shared by the NRA,” Reid said.
See the More section from “The ReadOut” below.