Washington Free Beacon reporter Bill McMorris joined the weekly online show Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Friends on Thursday night for a reflection on the San Bernardino and Colorado Springs shootings.
This particular episode featured guests Mark and Mollie Hemingway of the Weekly Standard and The Federalist, respectively. The show's producer, Aaron Gardner, also discussed his first-hand experience as an eye-witness to the Colorado Springs shooting.
Gardner had just finished grocery shopping when he learned on Twitter that the shooting was happening less than two and a half miles away from him. A supporter of gun rights, he explained to viewers why Western American culture is one of gun ownership.
"It's because we're not like Europe, we're not like New England. We're very, very spread out. I grew up on ranches and farms and things like that. [...] Having three policemen for an entire county-size area isn't a strange thing out West," he said. "So, self-defense is not something that we're far separated from."
"We may see greater occurrences of shootings here and there for some reasons," he said. "But at the same time, we see more liberty and we see more individuals taking out bad guys in these situations than we do in other countries as well."
The show, hosted by RedState’s Leon Wolf, is described as follows:
A roundtable, cable-news style discussion of current events, politics, and popular culture from a conservative perspective. Hosted by Leon Wolf, and featuring his regular cohosts , F. Bill McMorris of the Washington Free Beacon, Neal Dewing of The Federalist, and Jeff Blehar of the Ace of Spade HQ Decision Desk, the ATF guys bring a little class and even less knowledge to the darkest corners of the Internet.