Scalise pins blame on Democrats for gun violence

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) on Sunday blamed Democrats for a rise in gun violence across the U.S., blaming the “defund the police” movement and local authorities for being lax on criminals.

In an interview with “Fox News Sunday” guest host John Roberts, Scalise said the reason gun violence and crime rates are so high in the U.S. compared to other countries is because of the “defund the police” movement and loose policies from city district attorneys, who he claimed release prisoners early or hand down lighter sentences to violent criminals.

“You look at America in the last couple of years, you’re seeing this crazy ‘defund the police’ movement. But you’ve also seen a movement that’s been going on for a few years in big cities where the [district attorneys] aren’t even prosecuting criminals until it is a shooting,” he said.

“They’re letting criminals back out on the streets and inevitably what you see is higher rates of crime,” Scalise continued. “And what you’re also seeing is more and more American citizens, law abiding citizens, buying guns to defend themselves.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/scalise-pins-blame-on-democrats-for-gun-violence/ar-AAY6LmV

Hey dumbshit, there was no "defund the police" movement when you were shot. Republicans like to pull shit out of their asses, throw it at the wall and hope it sticks.

[cilla4progress]

1. Zactly right.

Cuz defund the police was actually a thing...



Fuck that guy!

I think they are just going to take us to hell and back before this is over.

[Bev54]

2. Of course he does, that is one of their talking points that was in the republican

memo about how to deal with the shootings. I think every media outlet that is going to publish their talking points, must also publish beside it the memo that tells the republicans what to say, so the reader can understand why they say such stupid shit.

[blm]

3. No one follows up and asks them for actual details

how something that NEVER HAPPENED is responsible.

[onecaliberal]

4. WHY DID THE FUCKING POLICE STAND OUTSIDE AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR A GOD DAMN HOUR

While a mad man blew ten year olds and their teachers to bits with a war weapon?
The police had proper weapons and training, a real journalist would have pointed this out and asked why he voted against a bill that would have increased funding for police.

[RussBLib]

6. being shot in the head only made Scalise worse

He is yet another abomination from Texas we must remove from Congress.

[TheBlackAdder]

7. And when you join the Waffle House Regulars Club, you'll get a free order of hashbrowns. 🤣

.

Of course it's the Dems fault.

If he said it wasn't, we'd see a flying unicorn with a rainbow coming out of its butt.



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[Faux pas]

8. It's

more like they like to pull shit out of their asses and fling it at the country. I call them the inhumanes.

[Midnight Writer]

9. Uvalde police seem remarkably well-funded.

I live in a town with similar population (15,000), and we have no SWAT (Uvalde has a 12 person team), generally only 8 to 10 cops on duty at any given time, only 2 detectives, 1 K-Nine Unit, 1 juvenile officer.

From what I've seen on the news, Uvalde has a lot more resources.