During Saturday’s MSNBC live broadcast of the March for Our Lives rally, network anchor and admitted gun owner Ali Velshi blasted the National Rifle Association, saying it is not a “sponsor of safer schools and safer streets.”

“[T]hey are not here today,” Velshi told co-host Alex Witt of the NRA. “They are not a sponsor of safer schools and safer streets today and I think that’s important. And I’ve been speaking to gun lobbyists over the last few days and saying, ‘Why not?’”

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