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proud2BlibKansan

(96,793 posts)
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 09:02 PM Dec 2012

Roy Blunt shamefully ignores Sandy Hook's dead children

America’s official gun nuts have been pretty silent since the Newtown massacre Friday, with the National Rifle Association going quite and congressional representatives refusing to appear on the Sunday talk shows.

But on Monday, Sen. Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican and NRA-backed politician, came out of the woodwork to spew his thoughts on the matter.

No surprise: The 20 dead children in Newtown don’t matter to him when it comes to changing gun control laws.

“I’m sure I would vote against anything that impacts in a negative way the Second Amendment,” Blunt said.

I give Blunt some props for having the guts to state such insensitive nonsense on the day that the first of the 20 children are being buried in Newtown.

Read more here: http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/roy-blunt-ignores-sandy-hooks-dead-children/#storylink=cpy

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