Soledad smacks down Grassley for linking assault weapons to ‘black-on-black violence’ | The Raw Story: CNN host Soledad O’Brien on Thursday scolded Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and told him he should know better than to try to link assault weapons to “black violence on blacks” because most recent mass killings had been carried out by white men.
Following National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre’s Wednesday testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he opposed universal background checks at gun shows, O’Brien asked Grassley why not support something that seemed like an obvious part of the solution.
Grassley argued that universal background checks would burden people trying to buy a gun on Sunday.
