Another point Buchanan made was that Matthews’ repeated allusions to the “Second Amendment remedies” remark made by former Nevada Republican senatorial candidate Sharron Angle in a radio interview earlier this month. Is Matthews doing more harm by repeating the statement over and over to score political points?

“You shouldn’t say Second Amendment remedies,” Buchanan said. “But let me ask you something – who said it 1,000 times on the air? Sharron Angle said it once. I agree with you. You would say, ‘Look Sharron, don’t use it. Are you inflaming or informing? … But you keep repeating it.”