Steve Scalise: The Massacre In Las Vegas Only Fortified My Opposition To Gun Control

[tenderfoot]

Fox News’s Martha MacCallum asked Rep. Steve Scalise in an interview to be aired later Tuesday if his experience and the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas on Sunday night have changed his views about the Constitution’s Second Amendment. “I think it’s fortified it,” Scalise said.

“Because first of all you’ve got to recognize that when there’s a tragedy like this, the first thing we should be thinking about is praying for the people who were injured and doing whatever we can to help them, to help law enforcement. We shouldn’t first be thinking of promoting our political agenda,” Scalise said.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/house/353714-scalise-shooting-fortified-view-on-gun-rights

[spanone]

1. he's fucking dumber than he looks.

how do you argue with that degree of stupid?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Getting shot and nearly killed apparently didn't make him examine

his ideology and life choices. A lot of people who face death re-think the meaning of their lives. Some obviously don't.

[Solly Mack]

3. Yeah, well, Thune said if Scalise had only made himself small he wouldn't have been shot.

Also, that Scalise was shot because he didn't take personal responsibility in protecting himself from the bullet.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/sen-john-thune-blames-shooting-victims-for-failing-to-take-precautions-and-get-small-to-avoid-gunfire/

[tenderfoot]

4. He needs to also hit the treadmill

as suggested by Breitbart

[Solly Mack]

5. Yep! All those good suggestions for avoiding bullets. Time on the treadmill

and you can outrun bullets!

Idiots.

[Angry Dragon]

6. IDIOT

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. This guy is a serious piece of shit. A smarmy nasty one.

He said that with a hiss and a sneer.

[Eliot Rosewater]

8. Teaparty dipshit, not a brain between all 50 of the freedumb caucus morons.

[MontanaMama]

9. Check his campaign bank account.

Bet there’s a big fat check from the NRA recently deposited.

[guillaumeb]

10. An utter moron.

And probably a recipient of money from the death industry.

[Thrill]

11. Its not promoting an political agenda dumbass

It’s making sure the shit won’t happen again

[defacto7]

12. Let me help him rephrase this...

The deaths by firearms In Las Vegas only fortify his opposition to life.

[renate]

13. well, at least he's consistent

What pisses me off even more is his opposition to the Affordable Health Care Act (which is a fact) or universal health care (which I feel safe in assuming).

If the ACA were repealed, most Americans/innocent bystanders who got shot because a crazy person got unfettered access to a gun would lose everything through no fault of their own if they had the kind of medical bills he piled up. Easy for him to vote against health care for everyone as long as he's got his.

[hatrack]

14. Then fuck you, Scalise.

I hope you get shot again, and I hope you fucking die this time.

And I am not sorry I said this, and I never will be.

[BigmanPigman]

17. I am glad you said it, I am paranoid about getting kicked off DU.

[hatrack]

19. I don't care. He wishes death on all of us, I will confine myself to wishing death on him alone

.

[Jim Beard]

35. I wish to hell he had not survived.

[Afromania]

15. What is wrong with this guy?

How the hell does being shot and having 59 people killed and 500+ injured fortify a position AGAINST gun control?

His solution to Vegas is to first toss out some thoughts and prayers (nothing). Then do everything we can to help the police. How exactly do we do that dude? The time to do that would have been BEFORE by that buy not letting every Tom, Dick and Harry have assault weapons. I guess what you really meant was that we should give the police an even heavier grade of weapons to keep ahead of the general public. All of this because you don't want to give up that sweet sweet NRA money

Between this and O'suckface's "price of freedom". I guess we're all supposed to be perfectly happy with the everyday potential of being a part of the next mass slaughter. Let's protect the rights of gun crazies and the gun companies right to make money? Let's be perfectly real about guns in this country. It's not people wanting to protect their families buying the type of weapons we want regulated. It's people who revel in this shit. It's the kind of people who secretly WANT to mow people down by the truckload.

[dhill926]

16. Well then...

fuck him.

[Bleacher Creature]

18. This guy is epitomizes the phrase lost cause.

If being shot by a long range weapon - that should never be in the hands of anyone outside of law enforcement - doesn’t cause him to waver in his fealty to the NRA, I’m not sure anything will. What a complete loser.

[moondust]

20. Wow.

He must be really, really, really desperate for NRA money.

Does he even know the difference between "political agenda" and "public safety"?

[TheCowsCameHome]

21. After the GOP made him a poster boy for senseless shooting,

evidently he didn't learn a fucking thing.

[Mr. Ected]

22. Scalise proves he is capable of reading and memorizing right wing talking points....period

He wasn't speaking his mind. He was speaking the collective shitswirl known as pre-written GOP talking points.

He was instructed to deflect these questions as "politicizing" an issue.

The event happened. It cannot be politicized. It is in the past.

But policy IS political. And that's the issue. Not the shootings, but the policy.

Why are reporters so one-dimensional and incurious?

[LonePirate]

23. I'd be banned from DU if I said what I wanted to say here. In lieu of that, FU, Scalise!

[roamer65]

31. Ditto!

[JI7]

24. I'm sure he hasn't changed his views on lgbt and race issues either

After black and lgbt security risked their lives to save others.

[brush]

25. What a fool.

[elehhhhna]

26. So he's confirming his balls were shot off after all?

[Ccarmona]

27. So If Youre for the Status Quo, Then Its the Right Time to Discuss Gun Rights

But if you want Gun Control, it isn’t.
Fucking Hypocrites.

[GP6971]

28. Turd n/t

[bagelsforbreakfast]

29. Greedy stupid asses r gonna be greedy stupid asses...

But I know it's fortified my response to his shooting... so there's that.

[sharedvalues]

30. Blood on his hands

Scalise : at fault for future deaths.

[benld74]

32. Lock step GOP-led verbiage all the time

They must receive talking points
They must follow
Or else

[Blaukraut]

33. The NRA must have bribed...uhhh compensated him nicely

What a useless piece of shit he is. Worse than useless actually! He has unwittingly earned a megaphone only to use it to pimp the NRA talking points. What an asshole.

[bluestarone]

34. well it's by his choice

not my fault he's an idiot Look forward to the day

[JHB]

36. Promoting a political agenda is EXACTLY what you're doing, Stevie...

It's the only thing you know how to do.

What were "good guys with a gun" supposed to do to "defend themselves," open up on a hotel?

[Initech]

37. WTF!!! He gets shot and makes excuses *AGAINST* gun control?

Stockholm syndrome?