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Thanks to a string of truly bizarre ("stuff happens" and thoughtless comments from several GOP candidates, including one that seemed to place some blame on the Umpqua Community College victims for being shot, the so-called gun debate has managed to become even more baseless.
In other words, the Republican field is once again highlighting just how radical the party has become on key issues. And that poses a growing challenge for journalists.
"Rather than engaging in an honest effort to address gun violence and prevent more senseless carnage, practically every G.O.P. candidate has been reduced to repeating a mantra that many of them, surely, cannot fully believe," wrote The New Yorker's John Cassidy this week.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/10/09/how-do-you-cover-the-gun-debate-when-one-side-s/206062
hack89
(39,171 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,046 posts)Say Carson = Sanders or Bush = Clinton on how they "pandered".
hack89
(39,171 posts)Both HRC and Bernie know that their gun control policies will never be passed. That's all I meant.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)kids are just the price of freedom, law-abiding/responsible gun owners, Zman acted legally, schools should indoctrinate all kids in "gun safety," gunz are progressive, the 2nd amendment trumps society, . . . . . . Where is the throwing up in disgust thingy?
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)NonMetro
(631 posts)Because then I wouldn't be able to say Ben Carson is a nut job who needs to have his head examined. And he's not merely insensitive, he's STUPID!
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)He's not stupid, he left stupid behind a while back, he's graduated to fucking idiot, on his way to his Masters in fucking head case.
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)And then I had the misfortune to hear a Carson quote on the news...
NonMetro
(631 posts)And LOL!
YabaDabaNoDinoNo
(460 posts)too.
It is the mindset, no amount of facts or truth will dissuade them. Many would kill and have killed to get their way.
In congress and america with the funding of the NRA we now have the Religious Gunners an extremely dangerous combination, it never turns out well with them.