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In the blog post -- titled "We fill Our Culture With Garbage, And We Reap The Result" -- Jindal blamed the prevalence of mass shootings in America on "deep and serious cultural decay in our society," jumping from a condemnation of violence in media and a reference to abortion to a discussion of the reported absence of the father of the Harper Mercer in the young man's life.
"This killers father is now lecturing us on the need for gun control and he says he has no idea how or where his son got the guns," Jindal wrote. "Of course he doesnt know. You know why he doesnt know? Because he is not, and has never been in his sons life. Hes a complete failure as a father, he should be embarrassed to even show his face in public. Hes the problem here."
The father, Ian Mercer, has told the media he believes the shooting wouldn't have happened if gun control laws had prevented his son from accessing the 13 weapons linked to him during the investigation into the shooting, which left 10 dead including Harper Mercer. It's been reported that Harper-Mercer's mother Laurel Harper had bragged prior to the shooting about the stockpile of firearms she had been collecting, and that she and her son were frequent visitors of the local gun range. According to the New York Times, Laurel Harper and Ian Mercer had divorced about a decade ago, and Ian had not seen his son in the two years since Chris Harper-Mercer moved to Oregon with his mother.
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TPM
Stay classy Booby. This tasteless defense of the gun fetish may get you up to 2% in the polls.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)You can know all about someone without ever meeting them, and that they're a failure because they didn't know every last detail of their adult son's life. Amazing! I may have to change my party registration.
JI7
(89,239 posts)malaise
(268,693 posts)Of course not
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)that bought all the guns and took her son to the range, perhaps he's aiming his ire in the wrong direction.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]All things in moderation, including moderation.[/center][/font][hr]
snooper2
(30,151 posts)NickB79
(19,224 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)That figures.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Bravely cradling her arsenal while some loudmouth liberal father was turning his kid into a whacko.
It all makes sense to Piyush.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)as remotely Presidential.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)It's actually possible for Bobby Jindal to become even more unlikable.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Herp derp. Derpity derp.
Go away, Booby. Your fifteen seconds were up years ago.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)You're going nowhere in the 2016 race, no matter how much of a horse's ass you make of yourself.
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)How about asking crazy-gun-stockpiling-Mom to take some responsibility?
pacalo
(24,721 posts)SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)locked in a rubber room and the key thrown away because of her lust for guns.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)I just can't wrap my head around a nurse having this obsession when her son lives with her.
Also, I'm not so sure Bobby Jindal is all there, either. It takes some gall to blame the father, under the circumstances.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)Paladin
(28,243 posts)Talk nice to Wayne LaPierre, and maybe he'll let you present Laurel Harper with that honorary musket at the next NRA convention. She's got to be a front-runner for it, at this point......