Wait for it, wait for it, here it comes. We all knew that Trump would eventually blame the massacre in Orlando on the unarmed patrons, and the laws that disarmed them. As reported in Political Wire:
Said Trump: “If we had people with the bullets going in the opposite direction — right smack between the eyes of this maniac. If some of those wonderful people had guns strapped right here, right to their waist or right to their ankle, and this son of a bitch comes out and starts shooting, and one of the people in that room happened to have it and goes boom, boom, you know what? That would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight, folks, that would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight.”
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Some of us see a risk in mixing six shooters with six packs. Bar fights would turn deadly. But Trump supporters should go all in. Include a plank in the GOP platform opposing drunk driving laws. Walk that plank Ryan.
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Saturday, June 18, 2016
Monday, June 13, 2016
Shame on Trump
Tragedies should unite us. We all rallied around George W. Bush after 9/11. But Trump has chosen to attack the sitting president. If you parse his words carefully, he implies that Obama was involved or sympathetic to this act of terrorism. Shame!
Time to set the record straight. Obama is responsible for the death of Osama bin Laden as well as fatal drone strikes against 120 ISIS leaders. He has done this while maintaining the working relationships with Muslim states, and the local Islamic community, that are so crucial in the fight against ISIS.
Now let's look at the other side of the ledger. Shortly after the attack in Orlando the Republican Lieutenant Governor of Texas tweeted a biblical verse clearly expounding that the victims deserved to die because of their homosexuality. Republican tolerance, of such intolerance, facilitates the all too common hate crimes against the LGBT community.
More pointedly, since 9/11 guns have been used in over 85% of terrorist killings. Trump and his party are on bended knee before the NRA, protecting and expanding loopholes in background checks, while supporting universal access to assault weapons.
Time to set the record straight. Obama is responsible for the death of Osama bin Laden as well as fatal drone strikes against 120 ISIS leaders. He has done this while maintaining the working relationships with Muslim states, and the local Islamic community, that are so crucial in the fight against ISIS.
Now let's look at the other side of the ledger. Shortly after the attack in Orlando the Republican Lieutenant Governor of Texas tweeted a biblical verse clearly expounding that the victims deserved to die because of their homosexuality. Republican tolerance, of such intolerance, facilitates the all too common hate crimes against the LGBT community.
More pointedly, since 9/11 guns have been used in over 85% of terrorist killings. Trump and his party are on bended knee before the NRA, protecting and expanding loopholes in background checks, while supporting universal access to assault weapons.
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