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Newsmax Host: When Kids ‘Used to Carry Guns’ There Were No School Shootings<!-- wp:html --><p>via Newsmax</p> <p>A <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/has-newsmax-ghosted-their-star-meathead-grant-stinchfield">Newsmax</a> host seemed to suggest Friday that <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/uvalde-teacher-emilia-marin-dad-of-slain-student-amerie-jo-garza-put-the-heat-on-gun-maker-daniel-defense">recent school shootings</a> are the result of students not bringing guns to class, saying that when children did so decades ago there were “no mass shootings” and “no problems.”</p> <p>Carl Higbie, in an interview with Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) focusing on the assault weapons ban that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/politics/house-vote-assault-weapons-ban/index.html">passed the House</a> earlier in the day, showed a clip of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) criticizing the methods that “some totally irresponsible people” use to train their young children in firearms usage. Higbie took offense at her remarks.</p> <p>“I’d say it’s about a hundred years ago, these so-called toddlers and 8-, 9-, 10-year-olds used to carry guns to school as a completely normal thing in a lot of areas of the country–and probably even more recently than a hundred years ago. No mass school shootings, no problems,” Higbie claimed sweepingly, to which Steube agreed.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsmax-host-when-kids-used-to-carry-guns-there-were-no-school-shootings?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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A Newsmax host seemed to suggest Friday that recent school shootings are the result of students not bringing guns to class, saying that when children did so decades ago there were “no mass shootings” and “no problems.”

Carl Higbie, in an interview with Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) focusing on the assault weapons ban that passed the House earlier in the day, showed a clip of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) criticizing the methods that “some totally irresponsible people” use to train their young children in firearms usage. Higbie took offense at her remarks.

“I’d say it’s about a hundred years ago, these so-called toddlers and 8-, 9-, 10-year-olds used to carry guns to school as a completely normal thing in a lot of areas of the country–and probably even more recently than a hundred years ago. No mass school shootings, no problems,” Higbie claimed sweepingly, to which Steube agreed.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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