Mayor of Odessa, Texas blames 'problem of the heart' and video games for shootings

[Miles Archer]

Odessa, Texas mayor blames ‘problem of the heart’ and video games for most recent mass shooting



“There’s always going to be evil people. Evil people find ways to hurt people,” he said, citing the Stillwater incident.

“Whether it’s an airplane in New York. When I was in Stillwater, Oklahoma, a lady plowed into a crowd of people at a parade. You sit here, and you wonder why. You don’t understand why. I think that’s when you have to lean on your faith,” Turner claimed.

“But you do realize there was a shooting and the mass shooting in El Paso not too far ago, far away, just about a month ago,” Gibson explained. “Again, with an assault rifle. This is an assault rifle. Isn’t there something common in all of this?”

“Yeah. I think it’s a problem of the heart, to be honest with you,” Turner explained. “We have so many violent video games.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/odessa-texas-mayor-blames-problem-of-the-heart-and-video-games-for-most-recent-mass-shooting/

[stopbush]

1. Fucking idiot.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

11. K&R and he's a liar!

[Voltaire2]

2. Everyday millions of characters are killed

in video games. The carnage is stunning. It is an ongoing genocide of historic proportions.

Game characters: the untold tragedy of the 21st century.

Who will send thoughts and prayers to fortnight?

[underpants]

3. Hey dumbass

He was driving around with a loaded assault type weapon

He was a time bomb waiting to go off AND he had the mess to fire a lot of rounds in a short period of time. Period.

[Skittles]

4. gun humping NRA whore

[dalton99a]

5. Because it didn't happen to his family

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. I HATE these

motherfuckers!

[Vinca]

7. They have violent video games in countries all around the world. The only thing different about this

country is that every Tom, Dick and lunatic can buy any kind of gun they want and drive around an American city shooting people.

[Blecht]

8. Stupid, or sadistic?

Or both?

It is complete idiocy to blame video games -- only somebody with extremely limited cognitive ability could believe that video games are the cause.

[struggle4progress]

9. "Good heavens! Another senseless mass shooting! Whatever can we do to prevent these tragedies?

Perhaps we should outlaw left turns. Perhaps we should not allow police to write traffic tickets. Maybe we should fly the flag at half mast every day! It is very perplexing, and we are studying all our options!"

[Crunchy Frog]

13. The land of willful stupidity.

These days I wouldn't be caught dead in Texas.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. What a horses ass

Most people who play video games do not buy an AR-15 and shoot up the place.

[Initech]

15. Kindly go shove a Playstation controller up your ass, mayor.

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. He comes off sounding as dumb as tRUMP

[roamer65]

17. It's gonna take drastic action at the state level.

For states like NY and CA that means confiscation and border controls.

[area51]

18. FFS.