11-07-2017, 11:07 AM
President Trump and his spokespersons sound like fools, in my opinion. It's not disrespectful or inappropriate to talk about improvement-oriented gun controls just after a shooting massacre. Just the opposite.
And, Trump's statement yesterday about how more gun control would have led to hundreds of deaths instead of 26 deaths at the Texas church is idiotic. Unless our president is telling the world that the armed good samaritan who interrupted Kelley's slaughter is also a criminal or mentally ill and Trump somehow knows that Kelley had other mass targets, Trump's just being a loyal mouthpiece for the NRA and gun lobby who helped get him elected.
Prayers for the dead and surviving victims are fine after such a tragedy, but they're not solution-oriented and they do nothing to help minimize the number of future such tragedies.
And, Trump's statement yesterday about how more gun control would have led to hundreds of deaths instead of 26 deaths at the Texas church is idiotic. Unless our president is telling the world that the armed good samaritan who interrupted Kelley's slaughter is also a criminal or mentally ill and Trump somehow knows that Kelley had other mass targets, Trump's just being a loyal mouthpiece for the NRA and gun lobby who helped get him elected.
Prayers for the dead and surviving victims are fine after such a tragedy, but they're not solution-oriented and they do nothing to help minimize the number of future such tragedies.