Joe Scarborough: Newtown Shooting Made 'Ideologies Of My Past' On Guns Irrelevant Joe Scarborough said on Monday that the massacre in Newtown had forced him to rethink his "long-held" belief about gun rights. In a lengthy monologue, Scarborough talked about how shaken up he had been by the killing of 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday. He noted that his children's ages averaged that of some of the murdered victims. "From this day forward, nothing can ever be the same again," he said. "... Let this be our true landmark ... politicians can no longer be allowed to defend the status quo." He said that he was a "conservative Republican" who had been solidly aligned with the NRA during his time in Congress, and had previously held libertarian views on the Second Amendment. But he added that Friday "changed everything. VIDEO Scarborough's been too long in the MSNBC saddle. He going menopausal and estrogenic all at the same time. bla bla bla ... and when I say "make your selves feel betterer" I really mean "put Mother governemnt in a stronger position My God. One would almost forget how you cheered for torture, you unintentionally ironic chimpanzee.