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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNC state GOP lawmaker: Democrats are committing school shootings so they can "take over the country"
A North Carolina state legislator is pushing for teachers to be armed in the wake of a deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school.
State Rep. Larry Pittman (R) told fellow lawmakers that he believed many lives could have been saved at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. if school officials had guns.
We have to get over this useless hysteria about guns and allow school personnel to have a chance to defend their lives and those of their students, Pittman said, according to the Charlotte News and Observer.
The newspaper also reports that in a comment on another users Facebook post, Pittman blamed the Florida shooting on communist Democrats.
"So many of these shooters turn out to be communist Democrats, that I suspect they are doing these things to push for gun control so they can more easily take over the country, Pittman wrote.
The lawmaker posted the comment on a since-deleted post that claimed to include a photo of the Florida shooting suspect, which was later proven to be false.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/374159-nc-state-rep-calls-for-teachers-to-be-armed-we-have-to-get-over
Sneederbunk
(14,314 posts)Cha
(297,812 posts)LIAR Extraordinaire
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)3catwoman3
(24,072 posts)What a vile person.
poboy2
(2,078 posts)The entire R party is infected with this puss.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)onecaliberal
(32,931 posts)BlueDog22
(366 posts)A member of the NC GOP would say that, wouldn't he?
world wide wally
(21,757 posts)Phoenix61
(17,021 posts)He has seriously lost his mind. There is just no excuse for this type of rabid BS from an elected official. Not user how recalls work there but he certainly deserves to be sent home and put to bed without dinner.
rockfordfile
(8,708 posts)That republican fascist is just like that murder.
ExciteBike66
(2,383 posts)this guy will be at the top of the list....
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)He did not disappoint.
Well, he is a continual disappointment.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)How can this be real?
Sarg
(39 posts)This kind of crap is no longer shocking or surprising. It's just standard, every day GOP nonsense.
Flood the country with guns. When people use them to do what they are manufactured to do, blame the Democrats. Call them Communists. Never, ever take responsibility for anything. Always recommend more guns as a solution.