CNN’s Tapper Busted For Trying to Play Games With FSU Student’s Background

Some people are anything but unbiased when it comes to certain issues. After all, no one in their right mind would put me on television to talk about guns without noting that I write for a pro-Second Amendment website. I have a given perspective, and people have a right to know where I’m coming from.

Or so I would imagine.

Apparently, CNN doesn’t think they need to do that.

From Newsbusters:

Seemingly itching for another anti-gun show trial like the one he “moderated” after the Parkland shooting (and won an award for), on Thursday, CNN’s Jake Tapper decided to target gun rights by once again exploiting an hours-old school shooting (Florida State University) for political gain. He trotted out 20-year-old Jayden D’Onofrio to be the voice to push for gun control with him. But while Tapper claimed his guest was just an average FSU student, D’Onofrio had a long history of being involved in Democratic Party politics and was even in the running to be the party’s vice chair in the state.

Tapper introduced his guest, saying: “Let’s bring in Jayden D’Onofrio. He’s a student at FSU. And, Jaden, we’re so glad you’re safe. Thank you so much for joining us.”

“We have a legislature here in Florida led by Republicans who have actively actually introduced a law this legislative session to lower the age to own rifles and guns in our state, which was a bill that they passed after the shooting at MSD in Parkland,” D’Onofrio cried to Tapper. “The shooter today was, I believe, 20 years old. It just doesn’t make sense. It’s nonsensical, Jake. It’s nonsensical.”

D’Onofrio went on to suggest that the Republicans in the Florida legislature had blood on their hands:

I live two minutes from the capitol here in Tallahassee, and if I were to go speak to the legislators here specifically, I believe the Republican legislators who are passing these types of bills that allow this stuff to happen, they’re going to give me thoughts and prayers, and I don’t want to hear that because there’s people dying actively, constantly from this – these kinds of shootings.

It’s ridiculous that we continue to deal with this. They actually just – To take it back again. They just passed another bill to have the longest tax holiday in the entire state history to promote gun ownership in this state, and ammunition ownership. It’s just it doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t make sense. And it doesn’t have to be this way. But we keep doing it. We keep going down this road.

However, D’Onofrio isn’t some dispassionate observer. He’s not just some random FSU student. It doesn’t sound like he was anywhere in the neighborhood of the shooting, either. He was brought on primarily to talk about the politics, but was presented as an FSU student to try and leverage sympathy for his position.

But let’s also remember, once again, that the alleged killer was prohibited from buying any kind of firearm in the state of Florida. He stole a firearm owned by his police officer mother. He carried a firearm into a gun-free zone. Florida’s permitless carry only applies to people over 21, so he wasn’t covered by that. No one used a red flag law to disarm him.

At every level, he broke the law. None of the laws sold to the people of Florida as necessary to prevent a tragedy worked to prevent this tragedy, and yet it’s somehow the fault of people who recognize that?

The truth is that, as someone who is prominent enough in the state Democratic Party to think he had a shot at being vice chairman, he has an agenda to advance, and that’s to paint Republicans as the most vile people possible.

Not every Democrat is anti-gun, mind you, but enough of them are that one should probably include that in the introduction of someone if you’re going to talk about gun control.

Then again, this is CNN.

Do we expect any different from them on literally anything?

There’s a reason President Trump has such animosity toward them, and it’s not because they’re right even some of the time.