“We are owned by guns, and therefore there is only one way to stop the mass shootings. It is to suffocate the businesses that make billions of dollars in profits off guns, to destroy the gun lobby, the death lobby, and the Republican Party that defends those lobbies and those businesses,” Olbermann said in a video posted to Twitter. “And the only way to do that is an economic civil war.”

“The blue states have all the money, they must starve the red states into submission or another 600,000 Americans will be murdered in the next 10 to 12 years,” Olbermann continued.

[We’re already in an economic red-vs-blue battle, and states like New York, Illinois, and California are losing it — big time. People are voting with their feet by the hundreds of thousands in these deep-blue gun-control states and moving to freer red states like Florida, Texas, and Tennessee. Be careful what you wish for. — Ed]