It’s All Garbage

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Vice President Pence went with:’

“Our hearts go out to the families.”

Rubio put out another Bible verse up.

Trump talked about the wonderful law enforcement.

Everyone else did the ‘thoughts & prayers.’

One of the Texas lawmakers said that he wasn’t going to think about the gun. Instead, he was going to try and get God back into the schools.

So, it’s all a bunch of crap.

After the El Paso & Dayton shootings we heard all about background checks.

“I think we’ll get something done.”

Nope.

This is how it goes:

1). Thoughts & Prayers

2). Why are they trying to politicize this?

3). We will look at gun laws and think about it.

4). What part of ‘shall not be infringed’ do you not get?

5). We need a good guy with a gun there.

Then a few days pass...

...Trump is ‘bored with the gun control debate’.

That was a direct quote.

I saw the photo of the 17-month old girl who was shot in the face on Saturday.

If your coworker showed you such a photo you say:

“She’s beautiful!”

There was also a video of a man working hard to get children to stay down as the billets were flying.

I listened to that, looked at the photo and then thought of the mindset.

Do these politicians write it themselves?

Is there a template to follow?

They actually printed about a dozen of the Pence responses to the last 12 shootings.

Here’s what he would write if he were truly honest:

“Me and mother heard about the shooting today. Since he’s white I have to bring up mental illness, and even though I don’t know who the shooter was or why he did it, I’m ready to defend his right to own as many guns as he wants. Anyway, bury your loved ones. We don’t actually care, but we’ll pretend. Oh, right. Dang, almost forgot. We need to pray in schools. That’s the answer.”

Garbage.

Straight up garbage.

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