Fox host blames "fatherlessness" and "weed" for Texas mall shooting.

[yellowcanine]

https://www.rawstory.com/rachel-campos-duffy-weed/
Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy suggested marijuana and fatherlessness were to blame for a deadly mall shooting in Texas.

During an interview about the shooting in Allen, Republican congressional candidate Dr. Tre Pennie called for strengthening background checks for gun purchases.

"I know we've given a lot of credence to our Second Amendment laws, and I'm a Second Amendment pro-gun right guy, but I will tell you, we cannot allow criminals to be running around here with guns, with body armor, and not know who they are," Pennie said. "I think it's time that we start looking at mental health laws, start looking at gun protection laws. We gotta do what we gotta do to make sure that the right people have the guns."

"You know, Trey, I totally agree," Campos-Duffy replied. "I think everything needs to be on the table.

"I think we ought to look at the issue of fatherlessness. We also ought to look at weed," she continued. "We know that cannabis increases psychosis by five times. So I think everything should be on the table, including what you say, you know, maybe improving background checks. But thank God there was a guy with a gun there to take this guy down."

Ah yes, reefer madness.

[Emile]

1. So stupid

[JanLip]

10. Yes

This is the stupidest thing I’ve read. These are republicans saying this garbage except what the rep said was right and sensible

Jan

[brewens]

2. I lost my dad when I was 12 and have smoked more weed than most people. I don't even

own a gun and have no plan to.

[JanLip]

13. Why not blame

Alcohol, racism, religion, being bullied, revenge, hatred, got up the wrong side of the bed that morning, but no the Fox News idiot blames the fatherless and weed. Unbelievable

Jan

[canuckledragger]

3. They'll lie and scapegoat anything but the guns.

Gotta keep that blood money flowing into their pockets.

And no, I didn't miss the blatant racism in her spew.

[2naSalit]

4. And they...

Can fuck all the way off too.

[OldBaldy1701E]

24. ALL the way. (n/t)

[malaise]

5. Didn't this killer live with his

parents?

[yellowcanine]

7. Don't let facts get in the way of her fantasy.

[JanLip]

14. Yes

I think I read that. He wasn’t fatherless but I guess it was weed.

Jan

[aocommunalpunch]

6. Bought and paid for messaging.

I’m SURROUNDED by legal dispos that I can walk to. Where all the gunz at? Fucking lying fascists.

[Cracklin Charlie]

8. It's Texas.

Where did he get the weed?

They know exactly what caused the shooting. It was the thing that SHOOTS bullets!

Why are they so determined to defend the weapon? Anyone defending the weapon must be shut down.

[yellowcanine]

9. Could also be too much sugar. All those frosted flakes and

High fructose corn syrup!

[Botany]

11. Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy is just a liar for hire. Willing to push a right wing Christo

Fascist pro gun agenda via trying to blame all the gun violence not on all the guns but on
some straw man arguments such as weed, parents, lack of Jesus in the person's life, video
games, society's ills, and any other crap instead of the # of guns and how easy it is to get
them.

I just read he Wiki page and she is no doubt very smart so she must know that she is pushing
pro gun lies in order to keep her "conservative creds" and her grift going.

[JanLip]

16. Oh but

You know they need guns to use against a tyrannical government. She’s pretty but she must be an air head

Jan

[Botany]

21. She is no "air head" and she knows exactly what she is doing in the selling of lies on Fox. Which..

.... makes her even worse. Her wiki page shows that she is no dummy.

[JanLip]

25. This is the first I've heard of her

She may know what she’s doing but I still think she’s an airhead. A dangerous one

Jan

[Botany]

26. I have to admit when I googled her name I was expecting a "Fox News Blond"

this is what I woke to yesterday in my hometown

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217889109

[keep_left]

33. She and her husband met on MTV's "The Real World". They've been on the wingnut welfare grift...

...for about three decades now. I can't figure out a single thing that either she or her husband (Sean Duffy) have done that wasn't some kind of sinecure job funded by a billionaire sugar daddy, with the possible exception of Sean Duffy's political career (he was a WI Congressman), and even that began with an appointment. It looks suspiciously like they are both part of a wingnut welfare machine.

Neither of them appear to have ever held a regular job providing an actual physical product or service. Both Sean Duffy and his wife seem to always be making TV appearances (he now co-hosts a show on a network that no one watches, Fox Business Channel).

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216091204#post25
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216091204#post29

[Marthe48]

12. Nobody I know who used pot

ever got violent. Never freaked out in any way.

There are mass shootings every day. People are getting shot to death every day. It isn't because of anything else but guns.

[Emile]

15. I thought weed was illegal in Texas.

[JanLip]

17. Yes

The killer and his fatherless dad smoked some home grown weed before he went and murdered innocent people

Jan

[Diamond_Dog]

18. Cue the "We need more God and Bible in schools" bleat, next.

[yellowcanine]

23. Oh that one has been used for years. But Jesus!

[Grins]

19. "...start looking at gun protection laws"?

He said that. Like guns need “protection.”

This is all talk for “the base” to make it sound like he gives a damn.

HE DOESN’T.

He will never say what he thinks should be done and HOW it should be done. He will never offer legislation to do anything.

[Mr. Ected]

20. I'd blame FOX propaganda before weed or fatherlessness

Provoking ceaseless fear and demonizing the people who are trying to stem the violence.

[prodigitalson]

28. watching fox is the gateway drug to sedition

[crickets]

30. 👆👆

[Effete Snob]

22. Not trans persons? I'm shocked

[prodigitalson]

27. and library books and crt and the war on christmas and antifa and blm

this guy definitely rushed past some big ones on his way to weed of all things.

[Dirty Socialist]

29. REEFER MADNESS!!!

Everyone spark up!

[LuckyCharms]

31. I've been fatherless since age 11. I've had major depression for 25 years.

I like weed. A LOT.

I put house spiders outside instead of killing them.

Fuck you, Rachel Campos-Duffy.

[GoodRaisin]

32. She is paid to make stupid people think that anything is responsible for the shootings other than

access to the assault weapons used in the killings.

[Midnight Writer]

34. Now that I know it's the absent father and the weed, can I go back to playing videogames?

[Rafi]

35. The guy lived with his fn father and mother.

Yeah, the good guy with a gun kept the death toll to nine. Bless him.

[Mz Pip]

36. The guy with a gun

was a cop who had some training. Where were all those other good guys with guns in heavily armed Texas?