The town hall, titled America Under Assault: The Gun Crisis, will air Wednesday evening.

“Among the topics to be discussed … will be: gun violence in America; white nationalism and the rise in hate crimes; and whether or not the President and Congress will take any action to make America safer,” CNN revealed this week.

The announcement comes after 31 people died in mass shootings this weekend. On Saturday, a suspect killed 22 people in a crowded Walmart in El Paso, Texas. On Sunday, another suspect killed nine people in downtown Dayton, Ohio.

CNN adds, “The audience will include survivors of gun violence from across the country coming together for this important event.”

Most interesting of all is the part where it says Chris Cuomo will host the town hall. That alone says the network is not serious about having an earnest “conversation.” To put it plainly, Cuomo is an anti-Second Amendment hack and partisan agitator. He does not even try to hide it.

“We can’t even have a conversation” about gun violence, the CNN host lamented last November. “And prayer? You think leaving it to God is the answer? We pray for strength, we pray for wisdom, for resolve, but we clearly don’t want to act on any of those here. So what are you praying for?”

He added, “What would it take? How about a stadium full of children of the most influential people in our society all holding puppies? What if they were all shot and killed? Would we act?”

Very subtle, Chris. And nuanced, too.

As if his hysterics were not bad enough, he is not even familiar with the arguments made by his own side.

“Who is calling for a repeal of the Second Amendment? Who is calling for it?” he demanded to know last March. His question came not even 24 hours after the late Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens authored an op-ed titled, “Repeal the Second Amendment.”

Cuomo is also fond of sharing pro-gun control agitprop. He is largely responsible for spreading a viral hoax that claimed a 20-year-old with an expired ID “was able to buy an AR-15 in five minutes.”

My faith in this upcoming event is growing by the minute.

To be more serious: If this is like CNN’s last town hall on gun violence, it will be an irredeemable mess. The last one allowed for the demonization of its pro-Second Amendment guests. It also allowed bad faith gun control activists to go unchallenged. If you can believe it, the Cuomo town hall will likely be even worse. At least the last one had the potential to be informative. After all, CNNs’ Jake Tapper, who served as the moderator, is not a complete clown. You cannot say the same for Cuomo.

It is almost always worth it to go into hostile territory to argue one’s principles. But CNN is not exactly the Roman Senate. It is the Coliseum, and the masters of ceremonies want a bloody spectacle. There is a certain thrill to entering a lopsided fight. But this upcoming town hall will likely not even be that. It will be the same as throwing oneself to the lions. There is prudence in choosing an at least half-decent battlefield. A prime-time CNN town hall hosted by Chris Cuomo is not it.

Gun rights activists should steer clear of this forthcoming debacle. If it is anything like the last one, it will be a setup. Watch it from a distance, sure, but do not get too close. They will try to make an example of you.

Fool me once and all that.