Republican response to mass shooting

[struggle4progress]

By Paul Waldman
November 6 at 1:31 PM

“This isn't a guns situation,” said President Trump, when .. asked to comment ...

... Our fellow citizens getting murdered in church, at concerts, at the movies, in nightclubs, in malls, in school? Gun advocates, a group that includes almost every elected Republican, simply do not think it’s a problem ...

Just watch Texas Gov. Greg Abbott explain that "killing is illegal," then go on to note that there are also incidents in which people kill with trucks and knives ... This is .. repeated often: .. yet another mass shooting, and Republicans .. point out that it’s possible to kill .. without guns ...

.. What does Abbott want to do about gun violence? ... He wants to do nothing ...

Republicans .. frequently say they want to improve the mental health system. But ... they haven’t — other than trying to take away millions of people's .. access to mental health care.

Trump ... revoked a regulation .. that made it more difficult for some people with mental illnesses to buy guns ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/11/06/the-indefensible-republican-response-to-the-texas-mass-shooting/?utm_term=.521404086c93

[SandyZ]

1. If it is not tied into religious and political beliefs, why are these mass murders

almost exclusively profiled as one particular religious and political belief?

[uppityperson]

8. Conservative Christian men? There is your answer.

[SandyZ]

9. Right. Radical Conservative Christian extremist.

[meow2u3]

10. "Conservative Christian men" is a gross misnomer

Those "men" are very long on conservative and short on Christian. They think mass killings are pro-life.

[uppityperson]

11. Radical extremists indeed

[MiniMe]

2. They go ostrich, stick their heads in the ground and ignore everything

[Paladin]

3. Translation: the shooter was a white guy. (nt)

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. The typical Republican response.....

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So true. Republicans are useless as well.

[windwardbmh]

5. They say guns dont kill people. People kill people.

But I think the guns help.

[HopeAgain]

6. I notice a gun seems much more efficient than a truck...

8 in NY vs 26 dead in Texas, 59 in Vegas.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

7. I found this gem from 2012.

This further explains Republican responses to mass shootings as the ones that took place in Las Vegas and in Texas yesterday.

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