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06 OCT 2015 AT 13:46 ET
Comedian Andy Richter took to Twitter on Tuesday to do battle with gun fanatics and shoot down some myths about the role guns play in the seeming never-ending string of mass shootings in the United States.
Richter, who is best known as Conan O’Brien’s long-time co-host, strongly criticized the NRA after the mass shooting last week at Umpqua Community College in Oregon while calling for gun laws that would prevent similar incidents from happening in the future.
Richter started last night when he tweeted an Oct. 3 column in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristof entitled, “A New Way to Tackle Gun Deaths.” In it Kristof runs down statistics like, “In America, more preschoolers are shot dead each year (82 in 2013) than police officers are in the line of duty (27 in 2013), according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FBI.”
He also calls for lawmakers to approach the problem from a public health standpoint.
Read more and see some of the tweets...
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/conan-sidekick-andy-richter-infuriates-twitter-nutters-by-ripping-apart-their-favorite-gun-arguments/
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