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.
“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.
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