Fox & Friends guest blames CNN for mass shootings

[demmiblue]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by muriel_volestrangler (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: Think Progress

A forensic psychiatrist told Fox News on Tuesday morning that CNN was to blame for mass shootings like what transpired in Las Vegas.

“I think that CNN’s going to have to answer how they demonize gun enthusiasts and how CNN actually contributes to mass shooting,” Michael Welner said. “And I think that they do.”

Welner appeared on Fox & Friends to try to answer the question as to why Stephen Paddock opened fire on a Las Vegas concert Sunday night. Offering his perspective that Paddock did not seem to fit the profile of many other mass shooters, he concluded that he must have had a cause, and that cause must have been guns themselves.

“Absolutely, people who are gun enthusiasts and who are populists or nationalists in this country are dehumanized. They’re demonized,” Welner said, agreeing with the completely unfounded assumption that Paddock perceived the attendees of a country music festival as being gun-toting Trump supporters. “His mind-set is that they deserve to die.”

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-cnn-mass-shootings-1ad50b45ba2c/

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[bagelsforbreakfast]

1. Dr. Thredson, I presume? n/m

[underpants]

2. So...uh...the gun nut was shooting supposed gun nuts for being gun nuts

Dr. Welner is a nut.

[tclambert]

21. Then the shooter realized he himself was a gun nut . . . so he shot himself.

Thereby illustrating how it takes a gun nut to stop a gun nut.

(Hey, this logic stuff is fun.)

[democratisphere]

3. Just another crazy Pox contributor with insane conspiracy theory BS.

[ExciteBike66]

4. Just as soon as Fox News admits that demonizing Muslims causes terrorist attacks...

"“I think that CNN’s going to have to answer how they demonize gun enthusiasts and how CNN actually contributes to mass shooting,” Michael Welner said. “And I think that they do.” "

[montana_hazeleyes]

5. What the hell?

What a bunch of convoluted Bullshit!

[yuiyoshida]

6. Its sad that the people who are FOX AND FRIENDS don't have

a single brain cell they can claim as an intelligent life form.

[Saviolo]

7. Now that is some tortured logic.

That word salad is barely coherent.

Also, "Nationalism" is not the same as "Patriotism" which seems to escape just about everyone on the right who's bending themselves into pretzels to excuse and empower white nationalists and normalize them as "populists."

Do you want nazis? 'Cause that's how you get nazis.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. People who claim that "white nationalism" is a benign and acceptable form of belief....

.....should do themselves a favor and take out the "-ism" and wonder how exactly that sounds and if that can actually be defended in good faith.

[IronLionZion]

8. Welner is chasing squirrels inside his head until he goes cross eyed

Trying to follow their logic could cause headaches, dizziness, shortness of breath, seek medical attention if you have been watching Fox News.

[Hoyt]

9. [CNN] "demonizes gun enthusiasts and contributes to mass shooting." I've heard that crud right here.

[Major Nikon]

16. Sounds like maybe that's a special kind of stupid which proliferates in certain circles

Whenever you hear the same stupid shit repeated as if it's an original thought, chances are it isn't.

[forgotmylogin]

18. Because...goodness. Let's not demonize people who feel they have a need

to amass enough firepower to take out 59 people and to injure half a thousand more in three minutes.

[Grins]

10. When did we start calling them "gun enthusiasts"?

And this guy is nuts. He needs a psychiatrist.

[forgotmylogin]

19. It's like being a "poison enthusiast".

[packman]

11. I kept telling you anti-gunners that you should love them nuts

and hold them close to your liberal bosoms. All that anger against them using guns to shoot up people makes them feel their penis' really are small driving them to show that they have the real power.

I am going to hug a gun owner today and tell him how much I love him and his 3 doz. guns and bedroom full of ammo.

[Saviolo]

22. That's one hell of a keychain.

How does he fit that in his pocket?

[Grins]

12. Nonsence. It's Obama's fault.

Isn't it always....?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. He was blamed within minutes:

These are country-music fans and police being shot. Obama’s and Blm’s favorite targets.

33 posted on 10/2/2017, 3:15:03 AM by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)

Obama soros black ops against country-music fans.

58 posted on 10/2/2017, 3:23:45 AM by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)

[pangaia]

13. I'm glad, I think, somebody watches that channel so I don't have to,

Not that I ever turn on the TV, anyway.

[rurallib]

20. sounds like blaming the BBC and other news organs for Hitler

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. Locking - this is opinion, not news

and opinion of an idiot Fox found to waste everyone's time, so not important news of national interest. Please repost in GD. Thanks.