More epic fail on the behalf of the republicans. Again, as I stated previously, when you follow and believe in the unfathomable, you end up saying the unfathomable speaking crazy things.
When you buy into the NRA lie pole, line, and sinker, you are going to say stupid ..s stuff like this.
What Tom Delay says below, is a repetitive of what I heard Hannity say and probably a dozen others. What they don't connect is that while it is true that people pull the trigger, its the guns that gives them the means. By their logic we should allow private citizen to buy old F-15 fighter jets and Abrams tanks.
With the same logic, we should give drug addicts all of the drugs they need just so they feel at peace of having pills hear by- after all it is 'the people' that pop the pill.
If we recognize that 'it is just the people' and guns, bills, knives are just the means, it would make sense to acknowledge that it would be in society's best interest to
1. Not cut the budget (state and federal) for mental health issues
2. Not to provide easy means for someone like this to gain access to weapons of mass destruction.
While Chicago is used by the gun lobby to point to the ineffectiveness of gun control, they are missing the boat. I blame Chicago on a failed social structure, failed politics, failed drug enforcement policy and lack of opportunity. Guns only give those beaten down people a easier means to deal with these issues. If the guns weren't available that doesn't automatically mean that Chicago would remain what it is - 'murder capital' - as people use knives instead of guns.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/tom-delay-gun-control-guns-not-people-las-vegas-shooting/2017/10/03/id/817482/
quote
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told
Newsmax TV on Tuesday that the Las Vegas should not be used to fuel debate on gun control because "it's not the guns, it's the people."
"It's not the gun that pulled the trigger," DeLay, the Texas Republican who served as majority leader from 2003 to 2005, told Bill Tucker on "Newsmax Now" in an interview. "He pulled the trigger.
2nd quote
"But Chicago has the most gun laws in America, as far as gun control is concerned, and it's the murder capital of America," DeLay added.
"It's not the guns, it's the people.
"If we just use the excuse of guns or gun control," he said, "and that makes us all feel good and feel happy, it isn't going to change a thing — and it hasn't changed a thing.”
(TG: another example of failed leadership and lack of vision. But also tied to the hip of the NRA)
