On Sunday, even after the FBI hinted the presence of a link to radical Islam, the panel on ABC’s This Week blamed the terrorist attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida on heated election rhetoric and guns in America. “I think we all ought to pause with what happened in Orlando today,” stated ABC’s Matt Dowd when asked if third party candidates could gain supporters, “And if we understand that all of the hateful thoughts become hateful words become hateful actions.”

Dowd continued, “And now, maybe in the course of this, after what happened, the temperatures will go down and we, sort of, get back to a place where we can understand the common good.”

Republican strategist Kellyanne Conway then argued that America is in need of strong leadership. “But strong leadership, Kelly, is not about fear mongering and exploiting racial anxieties, and bigotry,” snapped The Nation editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel.

Heuvel had her own narrative to spin the deaths of the innocent for:

I think the, you know, grief and anger today, but we can't lose sight of senseless gun violence and the gun epidemic in this country. 66 people killed in Chicago in May. Hillary Clinton has a very strong gun control program. Trump, he's tethered to the NRA.

Democratic strategist Donna Brazile backed up both Dowd and Heuvel. “Since 2013, we have had over 1,000 mass shootings,” she claimed, “And clearly, there's a place today in the dialogue for us to talk about the tone and temperament of our national leaders.”

To cap off the show, Dowd had more spinning he wanted to do:

I think, whenever we—A side gets into, “us versus them.” It's not helpful in solving the problem in the course of this. Do less guns going to solve it? Possibly yes, possibly not. More guns won’t solve it in the course of this. But let’s get back to a culture that has communication.

It seems that Fox News’ Brit Hume was proven correct when earlier on Fox News Sunday he predicted, “Everybody’s going to go to battle stations on gun control and the question of terrorism, and it’s too soon to do that on either cause. And I think it be well to, kind of, hold our fire here.”

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