Fox Presents Ben Stein As An Awesome, Stupendous Gun Control Genius (Because He Hates It)
Fox News host Neil Cavuto was super-impressed with “great writer and thinker” Ben Stein's opposition to gun control. “The problem is not gun control, it’s terrorism control,” Stein advised.
During a crisis, Cavuto said in his introduction, “You have to step back, look at the big picture, and simplify what’s going on. Who better to do that than Ben Stein?”
“You know him as a star of TV, great lawyer, economist, all of that. I know him as just a great writer and thinker,” Cavuto continued.
And that was all the cred needed to be a Fox News gun control expert. But don’t look for any liberals in support of gun control to get such a fawning platform on “fair and balanced” Fox any time soon.
STEIN: We have about 100 million guns floating around America. We have several tens of millions of Americans owning guns, perhaps as many as half of American adults owning guns, and the government says look, two crazy people, two psycho killers in San Bernardino killed a whole bunch of totally innocent people, so we’re going to take away your guns and take away your protection, you haven’t done anything wrong.
…A gun does not kill anyone, people kill people. A person who’s in possession of a gun who doesn’t do anything wrong with that gun should not be punished, and he should not be deemed muted of his means of defense, his self defense, even if it’s only psychological.