Monday, January 7, 2013

Hey, Sandy Hook wasn't the result of having a gun problem, says Rep. Huelskamp.

I love it when Republicans have to argue like Democrats when it comes to guns:
Talk show host Joe Scarborough and Rep. Tim Huelskamp both shouted over one another after Huelskamp said those arguing for gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings were politicizing the murder of 20 schoolchildren.
There’s really no excuse for tolerating this degree of ruthless cluelessness.
Huelskamp argued there's no evidence tougher gun laws would have prevented what happened in Newtown, Conn., one week ago. "You know what, there's been a lot of misleading statements, including those that are said right here, in saying that somehow if we ban a gun, that somehow criminals won't get it," Huelskamp said. "Let's not build on the tragedy in Connecticut and use that to actually push a political agenda," Huelskamp said.

The amusing aspect of this discussion is how “liberal” Scarborough sounds when the conservative tables are turned, that moment when a fellow Republican finds his own ideology could kill him. By the way, nice argument from Joe:
"What was your feeling after Sept. 11, Congressman? Were there some changes made in this country because of the tragedy of Sept. 11? Was that just using a tragedy, 3,000 deaths, to make Americans safer? Do you dare come on my show and say I am using the slaughter of 20 little 6- and 7-year-old children? I'm using them for political purposes?" Scarborough said.
To show how utterly sociopathic a great many conservatives are, don’t bother trying to imagine them using kids as a battering ram, because reality is even uglier:
Huelskamp said he would refuse to allow Scarborough or anyone else, because they had children, to politicize the shootings. 

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