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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums(Video) Texas Lt Governor Dan Patrick made one thing clear on This Week today about gun violence
Last edited Sun May 20, 2018, 03:47 PM - Edit history (1)
HE and his kind are THE threat to MY children.
All the usual garbage in talking about Santa Fe in how the real problem is
you guessed it
Abortion.
That was his first thing in saying how we devalue life before going on about video games movies and the rest. Stephanopolous pushed back in saying other developed nations don't have these scale of issues but Patrick refuses to compare because there are too many variables.
IT'S THE FUCKING GUNS
I'm beyond glad one of my kids is graduating this week. I have three more years of worry for another. But this goes beyond schools because it's happening everywhere.
Fuck you, Patrick. YOU are the threat. YOU.
EDIT: Here's his opening response on This Week after Stephanopolous talked about the Santa Fe shooting.
Link to tweet
Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)Maraya1969
(22,480 posts)mass shootings just make Patrick full of crap.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)lark
(23,099 posts)They refuse to consider even totally common sense remedies, instead pushing more and more gun ownership as the answer, when that is truly the cause. They want terrorists, assaulters, stalkers, people with mental issues, teachers, students, people under 18 to buy guns which will just cause more people to be shot, killed or badly injured. They want no laws about locks or security for guns because then it'd be safer and less guns being bought, that is the bottom line.
Paladin
(28,257 posts)Even by Texas Republican standards, he's a shameless shit-for-brains. It comes from all the years he was an AM hate radio performer and executive, yet another Limbaugh wannabe. By the way: his real last name is "Goeb," but he changed it; probably thought it sounded too Jewish.
calimary
(81,265 posts)They offer quite a bit of much-needed context. Another Limbaugh wannabe? Dont we also have a so-called vice president* like that?
Paladin
(28,257 posts)Danny (Goeb) Patrick was an eager student, but his hateful spewings in Texas never matched the Dark Master's. And now Patrick is in state government, issuing embarrassments on a daily basis. Lord help us all.
calimary
(81,265 posts)TRUTH destruction, in particular. He has been TREMENDOUSLY damaging, and for a nauseatingly long time.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Is that how life is devalued? You can't talk about abortion in sex ed classes in Texas, last I heard, only celibacy.
Excuse me, after I finish this frappaccino, I have my quarterly abortion appointment.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)From politicians refusing to ban assault weapons , and in Nov. the GOP will regret what they've done, and are doing to this country. Especially against these Texas political NRA stooges for the NRA.
jayddrew
(12 posts)I guess Texas had to one up us folks here in Louisiana. We put Bobby Jindal in office and we are still trying to crawl out from under his economic platform. So Texas elects an ex-radio talking head as Lt. gov. who can go on TV and talk about everything from abortion to video games to twitter/facebook as causes for mass shootings, everything but guns.
Is there any way possible Texas will turn blue? How many mass shootings of kids will it take?
WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)I think you'll enjoy it...lots of smart people and good dialog!
calimary
(81,265 posts)I saw he was coming up on CNN after a commercial break, and I raced to change the channel. Those would be minutes of my life otherwise lost forever and impossible to get back, if I wasted a single one of them listening to him
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Charlton Heston said this aloud during an interview once before walking out: Other countries don't have this problem because other countries don't have the high minority population we do.
That's the codespeak to each other that they rarely voice in public. "Variables," I'm sure, means that.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)That said rocks and dirt falling into the ocean is what is causing the sea level to rise? Same mindset.
Chipper Chat
(9,678 posts)Turn Blue this fall. Por favor.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Religion and lack of education are the reason morons like this keep getting elected.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)unless you figure out how to stop people from wanting to kill other people.
Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)Hell, the main thrust here is that the parents were irresponsible and there need to be better laws dealing with storage and safety in the home with weapons.
But even something like that is resisted like we're trying to ban all weapons and take them away.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)Jesus wept, do we need to handhold you through every conversation?
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)USALiberal
(10,877 posts)DemoHack
(90 posts)We must protect our children from "school entrances."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/05/19/us/texas-school-shooting-exits-trnd/index.html
George II
(67,782 posts)That's insane!!
Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)kairos12
(12,861 posts)He should have been wearing an NRA hat.
Kyblue1
(216 posts)4000 American lives, and untold numbers of Iraqi children who were aborted by our bombs.
Initech
(100,075 posts)"When you're pre born you're fine, when you're pre school you're fucked!"
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)30 Jan KS
Pregnant Woman Fatally Shot
15 Apr WI
Pregnant woman found murdered
17 Apr AZ
Child begged for life after pregnant mom shot
19 Apr IN
Girl, 3, accidentally shot pregnant mother
22 Apr PA
Woman shot in Homewood gives birth
24 Apr OH
Second Springfield woman to die after being shot while pregnant
26 Apr TN
Pregnant woman shot 3 times
1 May MD
Pregnant Woman Dies After Being Shot
10 May VA
Pregnant woman dies after being shot while driving
17 May LA
Shooting near Istrouma High injured pregnant woman
19 May TX
Pregnant woman in the hospital after being shot
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Because rumor has it that Trump's paid for one or two abortions in his time:
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/05/fox-segment-goes-rails-when-guest-suggests
Westcoast52
(34 posts)When Hurricane Katrina cost hundreds of poor black people their lives, some preachers said God was punishing us for allowing gays to marry/run free. There is always this sanctimonious self-righteous certainty in Republican Middle-Americans where somehow it's the victim's fault and it's their Christian duty to condemn them and point out their sins. It never occurs to them to help or do the right thing. Added to this is a cretinous inability to see cause-and-effect or reason from a fact. These people's ancestors opposed the invention of fire because it would offend the gods. They believe there is such a thing as 'legitimate rape'. They see every event as 'signs' of God's will or wrath. They excuse their own folksy barbarism as good old American values. But worst of all, they are welded to the gun as the end-all and be-all for what America is and should be about. It is their true God and ultimate symbol of their cornbread superiority over non-whites. Smith & Wesson is the Way and the Truth and the Life. Since I have to share the planet with them, I have to pray for them and do my best to live peaceably with them. But sacrificing our children on the altar on their gun-god and their delusions is not in the script.
spanone
(135,831 posts)mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)response to the mass shootings recently? They are no longer blaming the massacres on 1 thing. It used to be just about music, then it moved on to movies, then they moved on to violent video games, then it moved on to....
Now they are throwing it all out there at the same time. I guess they believe 10 weak excuses equals a strong excuse when they are all lumped together. Well, when they aren't blaming the doors.