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“Shame On You”: Newt Gingrich Called Out On French TV For Paris Tweet

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was called out on French
television for a tweet he sent about the deadly terrorist attack in Paris
on Friday. The former speaker and presidential candidate had speculated in
a tweet that citizens with concealed carry permits for guns would have
stopped the deadly shooting at a Paris concert hall.

Imagine a theater with 10 or 15 citizens with concealed carry permits. We
live in an age when evil men have to be killed by good people
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich)
<https://twitter.com/BuzzFeed/status/665312487147896832>

Gingrich’s tweet prompted France 24’s Mark Owen to say he found
capitalizing on crises to advance a political agenda to be shameful. “Newt
Gingrich, shame on you,” Owen said.

"So he's using this atrocity to make his point that people should be able
to carry guns basically," Owen said. "It's funny how people will very
distastefully use this kind of situation to express their own particular
political [inaudible]. Newt Gingrich, shame on you."

Owen declared another tweet from former *New York Times* reporter Judith
Miller to be a "weird point."

"I don't understand what she's getting at," Owen said of a tweet from
Miller. "It seems to be a strange time to make that kind of weird point."

"Now maybe the whining adolescents at our universities can concentrate on
something other than their need for 'safe' spaces," Miller had tweeted
<https://twitter.com/JMfreespeech/status/665314281219629057>.


Eric D. Schwerin
eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com

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