The dumbest anti-gun quote of the year

CNN morning anchor wants gun shop owners to conduct a psychiatric evaluation of their customers before they sell them a gun.

CNN’s Alisyn Camerota wants gun shop owners to diagnose the mental health of customers before allowing them to purchase a firearm.

To be clear, I don’t have an FFL — a Federal Firearms License — so I’m not that familiar with the licensing process.

However, I’m reasonably certain that the federal government does not require an advanced degree in psychology before they issue someone a license to sell guns.

Enter Alisyn Camerota, one of CNN’s morning news actors.

Alisyn verified her firearms ignorance, or perhaps confirmed her own ignorance, when she suggested Wednesday that gun dealers should conduct a psychiatric examination of their customers before they sell them a gun — all under the guise of what she thinks needs to happen to prevent future mass shootings that the one in Boulder, Colorado.

"Why don’t we go to gun shop owners and say, ‘Do you think that this 21-year-old who comes in and wants an AR-15 style weapon, do you think he looks like he’s going hunting with this weapon?’ Did you ask him, ‘By the way, do you think people are chasing you? Do you ever hear voices saying that people are coming for you?’ Do they ever ask questions like that? Because this guy, it sounds like ... would have answered yes," Camerota said.

Yep, folks, you can’t make stuff like this up.

Now, as a recovering newspaperman, I’ve been around a lot of TV folks. Some are great journalists — I mean it. Others, well … not so much.

And then there’s dear Alisyn. She’s in a class all of her own — a special class.

I’m guessing Alisyn’s mommy has to pin a note to her coat sleeve every morning with CNN’s address so Alisyn can find her way to work.

To be clear, most gun shop owners evaluate a potential buyer the minute they walk into the shop. Gun dealers are outstanding judges of human character and, legally, they have every right to refuse a sale if they believe the buyer is hinky in any way, and I’ve seen more than a few sales refused.

They don’t need to pepper anyone with questions from Alisyn’s freshman psych textbook.

There is only one way to explain how anyone as vapid as dear Alisyn could be commenting, nationally, on serious topics like a mass murder:

This is CNN.

As always, thanks for your time.

Lee