Kevin Cramer, North Dakota Congressman, Ties School Shootings To Abortion Legalization

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WASHINGTON -- Since mass shootings in places like Aurora and Newtown, lawmakers have been searching for answers for how to stop future massacres, examining issues like gun control and mental health. But in a speech this month, Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) pointed to different culprits: the legalization of abortion and a demise in religious values.

Cramer made his remarks during a commencement address at the University of Mary on May 4. He decried a local TV anchor who was fired after accidentally swearing on air and then became an Internet sensation, as well as the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision.

From his speech:

Just in the last several days, a Bismarck news anchor mistakenly uttered vulgarity on live television. He's been heralded by celebrities from New York to California as some sort of pop icon. His bosses have been called goons because they fired him.

We learned this week that the Pentagon is vetting its guide on religious tolerance with a group that compared Christian evangelism to rape, and advocated that military personnel and colluding chaplains who proselytize should be court-marshalled.

Forty years ago, the United States Supreme Court sanctioned abortion on demand. And we wonder why our culture sees school shootings so often.

Cramer also mentioned the 9/11 and Boston Marathon attacks, saying, "Innocent people in New York have airplanes flown into their places of work, and marathoners in Boston are victims of bombs, yet Christianity is singled out as bigotry in our public institutions because politicians and academics lack the courage to speak truth. We've normalized perversion and perverted God's natural law to the point where the only thing not tolerated anymore is a stand for truth." ......................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/kevin-cramer-school-shootings_n_3285328.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037

[Eleanors38]

1. And some on DU were blaming the Boston bombing on the NRA.

[Recursion]

2. School shootings are less common now than before Roe v. Wade

For that matter so are all classes of crime except "theft of items worth over $100", and that's only because teenagers now regularly have items worth over $100 (the category hasn't changed with inflation).

[Zoeisright]

3. What a fucking idiot.

Abortion legalization most likely has caused the crime rate to drop. But don't expect repukes to be able to understand research or be able to reason.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. It's actually all my fault....

for supporting abortion rights those many years ago.
I should have known that school shootings would be the outcome.
Sigh......