Missouri Rep. hears about today's shooting on live TV — and his response says it all (video)

[gracchus]

@llamaspit

I’m sure that you all noticed as I did, that the Rep. managed to avoid the elephant in the room…too many guns in too many hands of too many unhinged and dangerous people

This is always the way with ammosexuals. Talk about anything but the easy availability of firearms in the U.S. They’ll use the passive voice, as if the injuries just happened spontaneously. Or they’ll attempt to shift the focus.

@gracchus

Claim: the real issue in this shooting is [mental health | white supremacy | misogyny | bullying | economic anxiety | police brutality | domestic violence | etc. ]. We must address it first so these tragedies don’t occur.

A distraction/derailing tactic. The existence of (or speculation about) a contributing factor does not change the fact that the number of casualties in an incident are higher than they’d otherwise be because of the relatively easy availability of access to firearms in the U.S. Also, we’re capable as a nation of addressing more than one problem at the same time if we have the will to do so.