If there’s a media star arising in this Trump administration, it’s Scott Jennings. Honestly, I’d never heard of the guy before he started making a habit of smacking down his fellow CNN commentators so beautifully, but now he’s approaching household name status.
Seriously, I know people who only watch CNN to see how Jennings schools everyone else (you can also hear Jennings every weekday on Salem Radio’s Scott Jennings Show).
Normally, what news we have on him comes from our mothership, Townhall. It’s content that’s shared among all of our sister sites, not something unique to us, which is fine. It’s usually not gun-related, so we wouldn’t cover it, though many of you might still find it interesting.
But earlier this week, Jennings crossed swords with anti-gun lawmaker Rep. Maxwell Frost, who tried to bring the topic up during a debate about Trump stepping in and taking over DC law enforcement.
It didn’t go as he planned.
Jorge Bonilla, at MRC, wrote:
Frost tried to interject himself into Scott Jennings’ debunking of Abby Phillip’s non sequitur about an alleged sudden Republican interest in illegal guns. Republicans have always been concerned over prohibited possessors, who commit the overwhelming majority of gun-related offenses, inasmuch as they get lumped in with law-abiding gun owners.
In this instance, Frost tried to catch Jennings with a prefab point about certain gun control provisions being stripped out as a result of the Big, Beautiful Bill. Jennings rightfully refuses to engage Frost’s unspecified provisions and rolls right through with his points. Frost chafes at his arguments being unacknowledged, only to get them unacknowledged again, and is left sitting plaintively.
Jennings just didn’t rise to the bait. He didn’t accept Frost’s position as a given and simply swatted it down, moving on and dismissing the premise to get to the point he was trying to make.
This is kind of what Jennings does that we all need to keep in mind.
Anti-gunners are great at trying to spin every issue into a justification for gun control. In this case, they’re trying to claim that Trump’s efforts regarding the BSCA are some kind of hypocrisy or something, and it’s really not. The issue in DC, as Jennings pointed out at one time, is that criminals are getting illegal guns, completely ignoring the district’s extensive gun control laws, and that’s just what happens when criminals aren’t dealt with.
The laws don’t work, and they keep acting like they do.
Jennings won’t play their game, and it’s amazing to finally see that on CNN.
Frost doesn’t know how to engage when he’s not able to pontificate as if he’s the moral center of the universe. He’s routinely used to the media playing nice with him, allowing him to do and say just about anything he wants, especially on guns. When Jennings wouldn’t play his game, though, he didn’t know what to do because he’s not used to pushback. He’s not used to his premises not being accepted simply because he’s a “gun violence survivor.”
But that doesn’t make your opinions more valid than others, and it doesn’t give you license to make up your own facts, which Jennings got if no one else on the panel did.
Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about gun owners, the Second Amendment, and its defenders.
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