{"id":1785029,"date":"2022-12-23T08:03:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T13:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785029"},"modified":"2022-12-23T11:04:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T16:04:14","slug":"mma-fighter-tim-kennedy-supports-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mma-fighter-tim-kennedy-supports-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA Fighter Tim Kennedy Supports Gun Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmma-fighter-tim-kennedy-supports-gun-control%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785029&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Tim-Kennedy-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former MMA fighter Tim Kennedy appeared on Lance Armstrong\u2019s \u201cThe Forward\u201d podcast on March 21, 2018, where he criticized American gun laws and voiced support for barring AR-15 access for 19-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">During the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h83fpCZQFT8&#038;t=4s\">podcast<\/a>, Armstrong brought up the February 14, 2018, Parkland high school shooting and said to Kennedy, \u201cI know your position\u2026on the issue of guns, and I have my own position.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Kennedy interjected, \u201cI bet our positions are a lot more aligned than you think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two then talked about their shared perception that people responded differently to Parkland than to other high profile shooting incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Kennedy made clear he was not interested in hearing from 16-year-olds who \u201c[make] videos about eating tide-pod and think [they] can change the constitution.\u201d But he criticized the response to high profile shootings being the same, over and over again.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He said, \u201cWhat is insanity? It\u2019s when you\u2019re doing something the exact same hoping for a different change\u2026and when you\u2019re letting people get access to guns, that should not have access to guns, and letting people on medications have access to guns, and think that something\u2019s not going to happen again? Then we\u2019re completely insane, and that\u2019s what\u2019s happening right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy added, \u201cAt what point are we going to wake up and say we have to change gun laws, we have to change what we doing about anti-depressants, we have to change, culturally, what we\u2019re doing with how guns and kids that are struggling in school are going to be treated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conversation went on, with Armstrong talking about \u201csick kids\u201d who talk about breaking the record for mass shooter tolls.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy said, \u201cI believe gun control is a massive solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Armstrong responded, \u201cGood, I didn\u2019t expect you to say that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Kennedy continued, \u201cI don\u2019t think a 19-year-old kid should have access to an AR-15. I don\u2019t think he should able to buy a pistol; fortunately he can\u2019t. But if you can\u2019t buy a pistol, how can you buy a semiautomatic AR? That doesn\u2019t make any sense to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say all the amendments in the constitution are important to him, including the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy then mentioned that the Parkland high school attacker got his gun legally and said, \u201cThat\u2019s insane. How is that possible?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy did voice support for allowing teachers to be armed, suggesting that teachers and school administrators who wish to be armed ought to be vetted, chosen, and trained, much in the same way as armed pilots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Aspects of Armstrong\u2019s interview with Kennedy began showing up in Twitter posts this week.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>For example, on December 21 gun rights proponent Maj Toure posted a clip\u00a0from the interview and criticized that portion of Kennedy\u2019s comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THIS is NOT \u201ca solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>THIS is NOT \u201cpro gun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>THIS is NOT someone a pro gun org should partner with.<\/p>\n<p>THIS is NOT the direction I\u2019m telling my folks to go in to sign up for ANYTHING associated with it. <\/p>\n<p>THIS is a CLOWN TAKE. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BoZnNAjQ2w\">pic.twitter.com\/BoZnNAjQ2w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maj Toure (@MAJTOURE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MAJTOURE\/status\/1605606950791569419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kennedy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimKennedyMMA\/status\/1605685921138950146\">responded<\/a> to Toure: \u201cWhy are you posting a portion of a video completely out of talk context from five years ago. Is this a pathetic grasp for relevance. Can you talk to me at shot show about it if you care about truth, if not, keep peddling lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News<\/em><em>\u00a0and the writer\/curator of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Down Range with AWR Hawkins<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em><em>a weekly newsletter focused o<\/em><em>n al<\/em><em>l things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.armedamericanradio.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Armed American Radio<\/a>\u00a0and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. AWR Hawkins holds a PhD in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram:\u00a0<\/em><em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/awr_hawkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@awr_hawkins<\/a>.\u00a0You can sign up to get Down Range at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breitbart.com\/downrange<\/a>.\u00a0Reach him directly at\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:awrhawkins@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">awrhawkins@breitbart.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former MMA fighter Tim Kennedy appeared on Lance Armstrong\u2019s \u201cThe Forward\u201d podcast on March 21, 2018, where he criticized American gun laws and voiced support for barring AR-15 access for 19-year-olds. During the podcast, Armstrong brought up the February 14, 2018, Parkland high school shooting and said to Kennedy, \u201cI know your position\u2026on the issue &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1785032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[6962,5458,4154,9532,7012,5111,9885,3819,9787,8301],"class_list":["post-1785029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-the","tag-bongino","tag-control","tag-fighter","tag-gun","tag-kennedy","tag-mma","tag-report","tag-supports","tag-tim"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1785032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}