BRATTON: “But in the whole country since 9/11, the number of deaths committed by terrorists has been a relatively small number. We’ve had Orlando. We had San Bernardino. We had the Boston marathon bombing. Then we certainly had our most recent event that took those lives down at the Hudson River. But we have prevented a lot of them. We will continue to prevent a lot of them. But the reality is they’re going to keep coming, whether they’ve inspired, enabled or directed. But the sad reality in our country also is we’re sitting here talking right now, no loss of life here this morning, tremendous disruption, but some place in America today, some nut with a gun is going to go out and kill three or four people. Every day we have a mass shooting in this country. So while we need to focus a lot of attention on terrorism because it attracts so much attention, at the same time we’re a country that’s losing tens of thousands of citizens every year to gun violence. And we don’t seem to be able to get control of that in the way we’ve gotten control of the terrorism issue.”
RUHLE: “This is such a good point.”
STEPHENS: “I suspect that someone, you can guess, is going to want to turn this into an immigration story. This is not a story about lax immigration rules.”
RUHLE: “Does that someone’s name rhyme with shmump?”
STEPHENS: “Maybe.”
(Via NewsBusters)