Carlson: Media's "aims are much darker" than they appear. (Screenshot)

“Blustery charlatans in the media” actually have much “darker” aims than stopping violence, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson warned Thursday.

What liberal media and politicians want when they call for “gun control” is really “people control” – a subservient populace helpless to defend itself – Carlson said. “For the left, voters who can’t be controlled can’t be trusted,” he concluded:

“We ought to do our honest best, as a nation, to figure out, exactly, what is going on here. But, we’re not doing that. That vital conversation has been drowned out, and made impossible, by mindless preaching about gun control, led by blustery charlatans in the media – you know exactly who they are – and also in Congress, whose only real agenda is moral preening.

“They aren’t trying to solve the problem – their aims are darker than that.

Press a little bit and you’ll see it. ‘Sensible gun reforms” – you hear that phrase a lot – you heard it all day today on cable news – what, exactly does that mean? Sensible gun reform: banning bump stocks? No.”

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"Dan Pfeiffer was a senior advisor to Barack Obama, now he’s a contributor at CNN, of course. Last fall, he wrote an article attacking his fellow Democrats for what he bluntly called a fake moderation on guns.

“His advice was this: Stop pretending to respect the Constitution and instead focusing on appointing judges who will nullify it. The goal: gun seizures, ammunition regulation, the disarmament of the American population. A country where only the people in charge have guns and everyone else obeys.

“In the wake of yesterday’s shooting, Pfeiffer’s piece is going viral on the left. What he wrote is what they believe. So, let’s stop lying about this. The calls you’re hearing today for gun control have nothing to do with protecting Americans from violence .

“What you’re witnessing is a kind of class war. The left hates rural America. Red America. Gun-owning America. The America that elected Donald Trump, they hate them.

Progressives are still in charge of most of the major institutions in this country, and they despise the autonomy of an armed population. They want collective punishment for the sins of a few. They seek to obliterate a core constitutional right rather than trying to mitigate its downside.”

“They call it gun control, but it’s not. It’s people control."

“For the left, voters who can’t be controlled can’t be trusted.”