Steve Scalise says mass shootings are the cost of the Second Amendment

[turbinetree]

Source: Think Progress

Just weeks after his return to Congress following life-threatening injuries sustained from a shooting at a congressional baseball practice over the summer, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) appeared on Fox News Tuesday morning to defend the Second Amendment, claiming that deadly shootings were the price of freedom.

During a Fox & Friends interview, Scalise was specifically asked how he felt about gun control given that he himself had been shot and given the recent shooting in Las Vegas that left 58 people dead and scores more injured.

“It’s what our Founding Fathers envisioned. If you go and look at the writings of our Founding Fathers, they believe strongly in the rights of people to arm themselves for self-defense,” said Scalise. “And that’s something that’s still strong today, and you see threats against it.”



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Hey Scalise, your an asshole, just maybe asshole, you should go back and read the "notes" from the various conventions the founding individuals had and what there intentions meant when it came to the second amendment, they did not asshole and I repeat Asshole with a capital A, envision that mass murder would be a fucking norm, they envisioned asshole that the militia would be well regulated with guns from invasion and to help with the slavery issue, because asshole there was a African-American uprising

You are basically saying that the population must live in a state of fear, hate and has for comments on Jefferson and Adams------------------your full of right wing shit, your ilk always use Jefferson and now Adams, to back your claim

[groundloop]

1. Mass shootings are the cost of misinterpreting the 2nd Amendment

That motherfucker needs to be run out of office for suggesting that it's ok that thousands of people are murdered every year just so that everyone has unfettered access to killing machines.

[greymattermom]

13. Maybe this time they went too far.

If everyone has a gun, mass shootings by the crazy will increase, and no one can be the good guy with a gun if the shooter is in a high rise building shooting at folks on the ground with a "semi" automatic rifle.

[PJMcK]

20. There is no such thing as "too far" for Republicans

If the murder of 20 children and 6 of their teachers doesn't change their minds, the murder of 58 and 500 injuries won't change them, either.

Likewise, there is no "bottom" to Trump's behavior that will change their minds. Trump was right that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and his base would stand by him.

[FakeNoose]

15. +1 Yes the 2nd Amendment was never about personal ownership of firearms

We need a SCOTUS that can grow some balls and strike down this incorrect ruling.

[mitch96]

29. The ritual blood sacrifice

to the NRA and the second amendment...
After what happened to him, he comes out with this shit.. Prolly gonna get a good chunk of re-election cash from the military industrial complex...
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[Freethinker65]

2. They did not envision the weapons capabilities available today

[elleng]

3. 'for self-defense!!!'

[ExciteBike66]

4. "Freedumb isn't free..." nt

[Kingofalldems]

5. Here they come...

[Bettie]

6. Apparently that is their new talking point

I've heard it twice now...him and O'Reilly.

And both of my brothers (who are gun nuts) posted it.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Then it might be time to either rewrite it or eliminate it.

[bdamomma]

14. eliminating it would be helpful

again we have a National Guard who is our militia.

I think they really want Americans to be killed off by guns, but then again this filthy congress is killing innocent Americans with no healthcare.

[awesomerwb1]

8. The callousness of these guys is amazing

I knew this POS would not change one iota from his bout with death.

Sounds like he feels empowered by it now. Unfortunately, he appears to be in a very safe district so we're stuck with the a-hole for a while.

[kysrsoze]

9. I would say it's karma if he gets shot again. What a shitbag.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

10. Of course he is absolutely correct about that

Mass shootings are the cost of the second amendment that can be so loosely interpreted as to enable the worst of us to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

The only difference between us and them is that we think that cost is too high, they don't.

Living in Texas, I see this all the time. A certain number of people will die as a trade off for such causes as free enterprise (ex: West, Texas explosion) and not having to spend tax dollars on things that don't benefit the wealthy/powerful (ex:not expanding Medicaid).

[treestar]

21. and you can bet they are thinking of the odds being in their favor

other people will most likely pay the price, so it's OK with them. Sick bastards.

[DetlefK]

11. European countries have about 1 mass-shooting per year.

Since 2000, there have been 5 mass-shootings in Germany, ranging from 6 to 17 dead people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Germany
Does that mean, they have less freedom?

[SnowCritter]

12. Hey, Mr. Scalise!

No price it too high when you don't have to pay it.
If you *do* have to pay it then the price is way too high.

There are way too many men, women, and children who have died in mass shootings - the so-called "price" of freedom. Lives cut short and potential unreached. And it's a price we will keep on paying because Republicans simply refuse to do anything about it. How much innocent blood needs to be spent before Republicans realize that the price is too high?

[Initech]

16. America has been kidnapped by the NRA and is experiencing a bad case of Stockholm Syndrome.

Our addiction to the almighty gun knows no boundaries.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. I'll take "People Who Learned Absolutely Nothing from Life Experiences" for $500, Alex. nt

[jmowreader]

36. No you wont

That question is in the Double Jeopardy Round, where the scores can really change.

[elehhhhna]

18. This confirms that his balls were shot off

[treestar]

19. At least they are admitting it

I would wonder if they have the guts to say that to the survivors of the victims.

That's what his shooting is, too. And if he has any guts, he should admit he is willing to die for it or to have his descendants die for it.

If that's the price, the victims should be treated like fallen soldiers. People who gave their live for "freedom."

[global1]

22. What Did The NRA Promise Scalise?....

All the money he needs for re-election? A perpetual House seat? To make him a Senator? I've got to believe he is being paid off by the NRA to not mess with guns.

Watch Scalise's campaign donations very closely going forward.

[Yavin4]

23. Can someone explain this logic to me?

Mass shootings are just something that we have to live with, so get over it. However, when it is mass killings by terrorists citing Islam, we have to go war overseas and invade everyone's privacy in order to stop it.

[Deb]

24. Does that mean we can sue him for lack of payment?

idiotic history twister

[procon]

25. Poor man, a closed head trauma impairs judgement and cognitive abilities, where are his minders? nt

[snowybirdie]

26. So happy

the representative has all that good healthcare that saved his life and for which he doesn't have to pay for

[guillaumeb]

27. The price of freedom? No, they are the cost of fear. eom

[rainy]

28. Then the price is too high

I’m not willing to pay so scrap the 2nd amendment or heavily regulate guns in this country!

[LonePirate]

30. It is a price we need to stop paying.

[underpants]

31. A. No they didn't B. Scariest has no clue on the context or the times

I highly recommend this book

The Second Amendment: A Biography
Michael Waldman

https://www.amazon.com/Second-Amendment-Biography-Michael-Waldman/dp/147674744X

[Justice]

32. Deadly shootings are the price of freedom? How can you be free if you are dead?

[Paladin]

33. Scalise is correct about this, unfortunately.

Long ago, the pro-gun movement adopted an "Other People Dying For Our Freedoms" philosophy.

[question everything]

34. And how many victims can get the kind of tretment that he got?

With multiple surgeries paid by, whom, exactly?

[ClarendonDem]

35. Scalise is an idiot

But there's nothing in the 2d Amendment, or Scalia's interpretation of it, that prevents significant action on the gun control front, including an assault weapon ban. There's simply no the political backing for it.

[jmowreader]

37. This is total bullshit

There is a huge difference between self-defense and mass murder. The Second Amendment does not say, “Mass murder being necessary to the security of a free state...” because it’s not.

[BeyondGeography]

38. Asshole

[YOHABLO]

39. Men with little boy brains that like to hear things go bang bang. Simple minds indeed.

[Vinca]

40. Then the price is too high. Repeal the second amendment.

[The Wizard]

41. How about Congress amend

the Second Amendment to reflect modernity. How much different are the Second Amendment worshipers than the Taliban?

[tblue37]

42. O'Reilly says mass killings are the price of freedom. Same BS. nt

[RussBLib]

43. damn shame

that Scalise's brain wasn't destroyed by that shooter

[TexasBushwhacker]

44. When the 2nd amendment was written, there were no mass shootings

Since they are a pretty common occurence now, it seems that an update is appropriate.

I wonder if his family feels the same way, since they aren't whores for the NRA like Steve.

[Voltaire2]

45. I agree.

And that cost is unacceptable. So the obvious answer is that the 2nd needs revision.