Thread by @igorvolsky

1. This thread will deconstruct all of the centrist delusions @HowardSchultz spouted about guns at his @CNN town hall last night. Buckle in!

@HowardSchultz @CNN 2. @HowardSchultz: "I think we can have more balanced & more sensibility around this issue while respecting & honoring" 2A

FACT: 40K die from guns/year. We have more guns than ppl. #2A about citizens exercising civic duty WITHIN MILITIA. Even SCALIA said govt has duty 2 regulate

@HowardSchultz @CNN 3. @HowardSchultz: "I have a hard time understanding why ppl need to carry AR-15"

FACT: Gun industry made decision in late 80s to begin selling militarized weapons of increased lethality. We've not done enough to stop it. Now killers have military-style weapons. We must regulate

@HowardSchultz @CNN 4. @HowardSchutz: "I respect the issues of sportsman and hunting and all things that go with gun ownership"

FACT: Hunters & sportsman support bold solutions to reduce gun deaths like firearm licensing. (They have to get hunting licenses, after all...).

@HowardSchultz @CNN @HowardSchutz 5. @HowardSchultz: "Anyone who has a criminal record... needs to be a lot more jurisdiction on how those people are buying those weapons."

FACT: To get a firearm, ppl should have to go to police station, get fingerprinted, get pic taken, pass field & written exam, pass b check.

@HowardSchultz @CNN @HowardSchutz 6. @HowardSchultz says: "Now the far right once again does not want to do anything in the issue."

FACT: The far right wants guns everywhere and for everyone. Where have you been? How could you have missed this?

@HowardSchultz @CNN @HowardSchutz 7. @HowardSchultz: "The far left wants to do everything possible to remove guns completely. I am in the middle."

FACT: "far left"-like MAJORITY OF AMERICANS-wants to build future w/ fewer guns & make guns harder to get. Echoing @NRA's TPs doesn't put u in the "middle" Howard.