'Ignore Guns, Talk Inflation': Memos Show GOP Strategy After the Uvalde Massacre

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EXCLUSIVE: Republican strategy memos reviewed by Rolling Stone in the days after the Uvalde massacre made their playbook on gun violence clear: change the topic to literally anything else.

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‘Ignore Guns, Talk Inflation’: Memos Show GOP Strategy After the Uvalde Massacre
The GOP plan? Change the topic to literally anything else. Trump, for his part, “talked a lot more about Johnny Depp than he did about guns”
7:08 AM · Jun 4, 2022

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Stay cool. Run out the clock. Scare some gun nuts while you can. But don’t worry: this moment will be over soon.

That’s the message the Republican Party, Donald Trump, and conservative leaders rapidly coalesced around after a series of mass shootings in recent weeks, including at one at a Texas elementary school.

Several strategy memos and private communications, prepared for a variety of conservative candidates and organizations, reviewed by Rolling Stone in the days following the Uvalde school massacre were clear: change the topic to literally anything else, and let this news cycle run its course.

“Ignore guns, talk inflation,” one such memo, written for a top-tier GOP Senate candidate, succinctly reads, citing polling data of voter concerns ahead of the critical 2022 midterm elections. Other documents predictably decried liberal desires for “gun-grabbing” and “gun confiscation,” and made whataboutism-type references to gun violence in Chicago.

On Friday May 27th, three days after a gunman’s rampage at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the Republican National Committee distributed a memo of talking points and messaging advice to its surrogates and media allies. The email began with some pro-forma thoughts and prayers for the victims and their families, then went on to “thank…the members of law enforcement who responded to the scene and killed the shooter.” (That’s despite the fact that 19 such cops inside the school waited and waited while students begged for help — and the gunman continued to fire.)

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[Wounded Bear]

1. They're probably working on talking points to connect inflation with gun violence...

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Then we should counter w/ the constant school shootings that literally happen every single day

in America, even multiple shootings on a day, and keep hounding the gun freaks ... notice that I use the words gun freaks, and not the everyday single gun owners in America, that there are millions of us that do own a single gun (or two), for the sole purpose of indeed of protecting our families, etc.

It's the reasonable that is needed here, the common sense, that is needed here, etc. Every day there's going to be shootings, the republicans are on the edge of a losing battle eventually, kind of like the cigarettes don't cause cancer, etc. arguments.

[sanatanadharma]

3. Classic inflation: too many guns chasing too few ...

... targets. Drives up the cost of the gunner amusement-park entertainment adventure.
America now has an increasing number of bodies inflation as cost for all gunners' fun.

[chowder66]

4. Depraved assholes....let's ignore the obliteration of American children and adults.

[2naSalit]

5. So rub it in their faces every single day.