GOP responses to mass shootings: Step 1: Blame it on mental health, not guns Step 2: Vote to cut funding for mental health Repeat I live outside the US, and I can assure you: the rest of the world has people with mental health problems. What they don't have is easy access to unlimited guns.
He doesn’t remember? And his cognition wasn’t challenged?
He doesn’t remember? And his cognition wasn’t challenged?
0 accountability.
you didn’t vote for it because you all conceded your power in the GOP to your orange God
Sebastian Gorka is blaming the Trans community…. so predictable
Yep. And there in lies a major problem with the GOP memory. They have none. Nor do they care. They’re just head up the orange moron’s ass brain dead idiots.
Republicans don't want to stop mass shootings. It's just another tool of terror that they use to justify sending the military into blue states, while also stoking their base's irrational hatred of any Democrats who try to regulate guns to drive them out to the polls every election.
I’ve asked this before, but I’ll repeat the question here. Exactly where was this so-called “well-regulated militia” in that Minneapolis school?
They never answer the question. He knows why he against it.
It absolutely is the guns. Although right now is not the time to make it harder to get guns (and yes, I hate that I'm writing those words as well) because of two words: DONALD TRUMP. This moment is, for the first time in our history, the legitmate reason we need a 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.
It’s really hard for me to understand why we keep letting this happen. We should erect the old time punishment stocks on the Mall, and put these people in them. I will be there selling rotten tomatos.
Mental health is just the talking point they use to get away from admitting that guns are the issue. The issue is that they simply don’t care about gun deaths They just follow their usual script to get past the initial outcry and then focus on the thing they care about - their wealthy backers
Step 3 might be to “institutionalize” people with mental health issues.
"As of 2020, there are 52 nations w/a dictator or authoritarian regime...: 3 in Latin America & South America, 27 in Asia & the Middle East, & 22 in Africa." --World Population Review It appears that none of these orgs, can deter dictators. We are on our own. NATO UN Int Court @ Hague
Well Canada has reasonable access to most guns, but it isn't a right and we lack the social agreement that guns are a good solution to unpleasant social interactions and societal problems. They're for hunting and pest control on farms, and not much else.
I wonder if he remembers why he ran for office.
You left out the consistently voting against gun legislation and banning AK 47’s and AR 15’s.
It's easier to get a gun than a therapist
Many Americans are addicted to guns. Shopping, hoarding and the use of guns is an American addiction. It’s on par or worse than other addictions, imo.
We have a rich oligarchy that wants more money, so they don't care if we die. They've completely redefined the 2nd Amendment so they can sell more guns 😡
Wow, great answer…🙄
It has to be BOTH Mental Health Improvements & Gun Ownership Controlled Laws ! We are a—Gun bloated,Mentally ILL Nation!
Fu** you for not remembering. I bet the parents and family of those dead children remember.
The so-called "right to life" party enables the slaughter of the nation's children. It is so immoral!
LAME reporting with ZERO push back, literally letting these moronic GOPs gaslight. Exhausting to watch. Just over it
Washington is overrun with absolute idiots! #Resist #NoKings #TACO #DeportElon #AbolishICE 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
They have got to make it harder to get high powered weapons. There has got to be tighter screening processes for these weapons!
#Minnesota Republican Tom Emmer can't remember why he voted AGAINST legislation to save children's lives. #MN06 voters, FIRE Emmer! PS: FELON Trump rescinded $1 BILLION for mental health programs/millions $$ for violence intervention funded by Biden's Bipartisan Safer Communities Act #Minneapolis
Emmer is also against gun safety regulations.
Remember when they decided to defund mental health inmates and declared that they should become “outpatients?”
Idiot. Minnesotans must vote him out. The NRA is in the wallet in his back pocket.
Step 3: Say “Now isn’t the time to discuss gun reform” while accusing Dems of politicizing the shootings when they bring it up.
He won’t even come face to face with his constituents. His town halls are by phone and scripted so he can continue his lies.
And people voted for him. Perhaps they don’t remember why they voted for him. Some form of epidemic mind wiping disease in that state. 🤔
All of Emmer's supporters watch Fox News. It probably doesn't matter what he says on ABC.
She should have stopped the interview at that point and said she would wait for him to recall. If he couldn’t then time to move on.
Sebastian Gorka suggested this morning on CNN that there’s a mental health connection between transgender mass shooters and anti-catholic/religious sentiment. No kidding Sebastian! Religious people relentlessly and ruthlessly bully and ostracize transgender people.
My Trumpist cousins have a liner that goes: the USA has uncontrolled mental health problems and we all hate one another. This always sounds to me far worse than the truth that they have far too much access to guns.
So useful. Who votes for this person?
Among the things that’s so troubling is why law enforcement personnel across the country—who are overwhelmingly pro-MAGA—are so in favor of as many people as possible possessing firearms. And MAGA lawmakers impede gun control measures at all costs while complaining about crime. 🤯
Time to vote this fucker out
Term limits and IQ tests Oh yeah - and get rid of Citizens United - the single most destructive legislation passed so far this century
Neither of those first two things will do anything. You'll just get fresh faces with the exact same ideologies, and nothing about IQ precludes someone being immoral and lying about things.
The first two I was mostly being sarcastic-
Oh, sorry. Poe's Law, in my defense. I see so many people sincerely acting like term limits are a magic bullet. X3 And while I actually wouldn't mind having some proficiency tests in place for politicians, in this case the man seems to be clearly *playing* stupid, not being genuinely forgetful.
They do NOT care about kids, period. Wanting to save fetus’s no matter what is solely to control women. They want more white babies. Hmmmm just what would they do with your white babies? Pedo’s abound w/ repukes. Trump ain’t the only one. When I see it in the news, almost always a repuke.
Towering hypocrisy.
Why aren’t we doing anything about the problem? He states it’s a mental health problem but offers no mental health support. Who was supposed to catch this individual before they got their hands on 3 guns. 3 guns. Did they buy them all at once or one at a time? Who sold them the guns?
Bet you remembered how to get my tax dollars direct deposited into your fucking bank account you worthless POS.
#TomEmmer needs to resign. Shame on him for even opening his mouth.
No push back on the reasons he doesn’t know why he voted against this bill. The media is a lost cause right now. They’re letting these politicians get away with being held responsible.
Did she let him get away with saying that? Like it was 25 years ago? This is what passes for journalism in this country.
Step one is to say it's too soon to talk about it and that Democrats are politicizing it.
Sounds like a reason not to vote for him.
Tom Emmer is an embarrassment to Minnesota.
Here, let me answer for you: NRA dollars. Remind you now?
The nazi rifle association told him to vote no. And he did.
…once again the NRA steers the GQP narrative missing the actual cause for gun violence!👇
Emmer should have worn a helmet when he played hockey!
You forgot thoughts and prayers!! Not sure how this works given the kids were actually in a church praying when they were killed.
I don't remember I don't remember I don't remember I don't remember
None of this stops until he’s gone. Find a protest and every day call your reps & GOP leaders. None of this stops until he’s gone. Your reps and GOP leaders can be reached 202-224-3121 Tell them to remove Trump by impeachment/treason charges Need help use 5calls.org Also, Runforsomething.net
That won’t get him into heaven either.
If it's true that we have a mental health crisis, shouldn't we be removing sharp objects and other weapons (ahem: guns) from easy reach to reduce the chance of harm?
Emmer is an empty suit. Kind of a dim bulb. I am guessing he is easily swayed by propaganda from authoritative sources
Republicans Bull Shit....again.....again......and again.....
Republicans' Bull Shit.......again and again and again.....
I ran the food crew at the closest big box store to where the Family Center went up the morning after the Las Vegas massacre. I saw the same grim determination born from shock that was on the faces I also saw in Brooklyn downwind after 9/11. Ten, people gathered in circles to talk. We need that USA.
“You can’t replace those children.” No one has said otherwise; however, you can try and do something to mitigate the chances more of them will be shot. “Which is why we need more guns” - stock GOP answer
he DOES NOT remember why voting against a bill? gets this asshole out of office
He did what he was told. This is the level of thought - on both sides. How else do you explain EVERY SINGLE MD in the Senate voting to confirm Brainworm Bobby ?
Tom Emmer is an out of touch, bought and paid for, shill who will soon discover his constituents don’t appreciate the lies and his support for a pedophile. And I live in his district and I’m not alone in wanting him gone.
Propaganda is a hell of a drug. Half of America will keep voting for this shit as long as right wing media keeps baselessly demonizing Democrats with lies.
We had a mass shooting in the UK in 1987, in which 17 people died (Hungerford) The following year restrictions were put on semi-automatic guns. In 1996 a man killed 16 pupils in a primary school. After that handguns were mostly made illegal.
There has only ever been one other mass shooting in the UK that killed more than 10 people, in 2010 using a .22 rifle and a shotgun. I don't know anybody who owns a gun. Similarly in Australia, gun laws were brought in after a massacre in 1996, and it's had bipartisan and public support since.