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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI Can't BELIEVE what I just heard from GOPers on Morning Joe..
Upon being asked "what can we do" about mass shootings in the wake of Vegas, George Will and Oklahoma Rep Tom Cole ruled out ANY increase in restrictions or safety measures, answering, "nothing", essentially..
While this doesn't surprise me terribly, the tone of their response suggested the question itself was a bit presumptuous.."Well, no" Will said, rather huffily, as he blamed a "culture" that actually expected a solution to a problem like this..."Government can't do everything"!, he said.. ..You almost had to HEAR their bluff dismissal of the possibility -- the apparent preposterousness of expecting anything to be done... Seriously. -- I wanted to scream "What the fuck Is government FOR, then?!?
I WISH I could provide a clip of it, as I am gobsmacked to the point that my mouth is STILL open twenty minutes after hearing it.
If someone can provide a clip, please do, as I think others will find this as outrageous and mind blowing as I. :
mucifer
(23,565 posts)whathehell
(29,090 posts)I thought I'd heard it all, but this I found honestly unbelievable
mucifer
(23,565 posts)right wing republicans are on.
janterry
(4,429 posts)yesterday they had these stupid mental health professionals (I'm an MSW, for the record) who kept talking about how as a country we're grieving.
I was hollering invective's at the radio. I was so angry.
I'm NOT GRIEVING. I'm angry. I want us to DO something. Automatic rifles, semi-automatic rifles.
whathehell
(29,090 posts)Fuck that shit!..DO SOMETHING!!
snowybirdie
(5,235 posts)I'm mad as hell too. Why grieve for the dead when you know there will always be more?
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)if those who speak of opposition, what would happen if their dear ones got involved in something like this?? would they change their tune????
babylonsister
(171,092 posts)My first thought was Australia and how they have successfully eradicated guns. Why didn't any of those talking heads counter with that?
And I too was surprised at Will being so defeatist. Wrong answer, George...
whathehell
(29,090 posts)Last edited Wed Oct 4, 2017, 09:57 AM - Edit history (1)
to Will's arrogant dismissals, but....Nothing.. What's happening?
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whathehell
(29,090 posts)George Will claims the desire to stop mass killings in this country to be as crazy as wanting lobsters on trees'
Really??
What reality am I living in?
whathehell
(29,090 posts)I must say that I don't see him as "defeatist", e.g. "We can't do anything". He's too smart for that..No, I'd guess he's like the rest of "profit over people" ghouls. -- The ones who would LIKE us to think there's 'nothing we can do" about it.
ecstatic
(32,731 posts)will go down, and quickly.
Jim Beard
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I am very sorry he survived.
nycbos
(6,038 posts)PdxSean
(574 posts)Govt cant do everything, therefore govt must do nothing.
It is, however, a handy little tool for suppressing civil rights, diminishing human rights, and waging war against weaker opponents.
Zorro
(15,749 posts)That's the way to frame the 2nd amendment debate.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)They keep coming up with the same answer after ever massacre.