Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said survivors of the latest school shooting are politicizing the tragedy by calling out the National Rifle Association.
Limbaugh’s interview on Fox News Sunday followed a segment of students at a Florida high school where a former student killed 17 people earlier this week. The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School called for a March for Our Lives on March 24 and called out the National Rifle Association.
“This is totally political,” Limbaugh said. “The students think they are taking politics out of this. The minute they bash the NRA it is politics.”
Limbaugh said part of the solution is concealed carry of weapons in schools.
“If we are really serious about protecting these kids, we need a defensive mechanism,” he said. “If we don’t do that then all the rest of this is political posturing for the 2018 midterms and 2020 election.”
Gun control advocate Mark Kelly, whose wife and former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot back in 2010, said in a separate segment that there needs to be a ban on AR-15s, the assault rifle used in the massacre.
“Should a 19-year-old be able to buy an AR-15 but not buy a Bud Light? That doesn’t make a lot of sense,” he said.
