NC state GOP lawmaker: Democrats are committing school shootings so they can "take over the country"

A North Carolina state legislator is pushing for teachers to be armed in the wake of a deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school.

State Rep. Larry Pittman (R) told fellow lawmakers that he believed “many lives could have been saved” at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. if school officials had guns.

“We have to get over this useless hysteria about guns and allow school personnel to have a chance to defend their lives and those of their students,” Pittman said, according to the Charlotte News and Observer.

The newspaper also reports that in a comment on another user’s Facebook post, Pittman blamed the Florida shooting on “communist Democrats.”

"So many of these shooters turn out to be communist Democrats, that I suspect they are doing these things to push for gun control so they can more easily take over the country,” Pittman wrote.

The lawmaker posted the comment on a since-deleted post that claimed to include a photo of the Florida shooting suspect, which was later proven to be false.


http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/374159-nc-state-rep-calls-for-teachers-to-be-armed-we-have-to-get-over