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Ocasio-Cortez hits NRA after New Zealand shooting: 'What good are your thoughts and prayers?'
The Hill ^ | 3/15/19 | Morgan GStalter

Posted on 03/15/2019 5:54:54 AM PDT by Raebie

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez(D-N.Y.) on Friday tore into the National Rifle Association after at least one gunman opened fire at two New Zealand mosques, leaving at least 49 people dead.

The New York lawmaker condemned the fatal attack on Twitter, focusing her message on the American gun group.

“At 1st I thought of saying, “Imagine being told your house of faith isn’t safe anymore. But I couldn’t say ‘imagine,’” the lawmaker wrote, citing the deadly shootings at a Charleston, S.C. church, a Pittsburgh, Penn., synagogue and a Sutherland Springs, Texas church.

“What good are your thoughts & prayers when they don’t even keep the pews safe?” She added.

Ocasio-Cortez noted that “thoughts and prayers” is a reference to the NRA phrase she says is “used to deflect conversation away from policy change during tragedies.”


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: anotheraocthread; banglist; brentontarrant; christchurchshooting; nra; ocasiocortez; rentfree; rentfreeonfr
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To: LRoggy

Killers among us are the problem NOT the tool they choose. The highest body counts involve other than guns.


41 posted on 03/15/2019 6:13:59 AM PDT by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitch!)
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To: Raebie

It won’t take much now for the crazies to recruit a deranged suicide bomber to attack a packed Church on Easter. It would be a very good idea to protect these churches with sophisticated armed and sensory security. Ah the joys of multiculturalism and diversity. Not to mention the self inflicted cultural wounds of widespread drug use, and the embrace of decadence and hedonism.


42 posted on 03/15/2019 6:14:13 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: dowcaet
The United States is an outdoor country too with sixty million patriots and sixty three million sheep according to the last election!

I'd say closer to 40 million sheep and 23 million illegal aliens.

43 posted on 03/15/2019 6:15:54 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: Raebie

Did not New Zealand allow their Govt to disarm the people of that country like Australia. I am guessing this is so.

Look at venezuela they are shooting citizens.


44 posted on 03/15/2019 6:17:18 AM PDT by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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To: Raebie

Uh... New Zealand is, contrary to initial reports, very much a gun-control nation. Guns are not permitted for self-defense. They are permitted ONLY for hunting and pest control.


45 posted on 03/15/2019 6:17:51 AM PDT by dangus
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To: allendale

bomber to attack a packed Church on Easter.

I think Vegas was the swamp.


46 posted on 03/15/2019 6:18:17 AM PDT by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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To: Pravious

DITTO—this chicks a figure head picked to be a parrot for the lib deep state!
GO pound, or better yet, go learn about economics!


47 posted on 03/15/2019 6:18:57 AM PDT by bantam
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To: Raebie

Good time for New Zealand to have death penalty.


48 posted on 03/15/2019 6:19:14 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: Raebie

I watched a Film on Netflix, which shows how a man with firearms shot, killed and wounded NZ unarmed police and civilians. The police were terrorized by the shooter and only could cower in the face of the assault.

SIEGE

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2228902/


49 posted on 03/15/2019 6:20:03 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Raebie

Even in the wake of a horrible incident such as this, her mouth is likely still that gift that keeps on giving.


50 posted on 03/15/2019 6:20:36 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: AppyPappy
She thinks all religion is useless, like the good commie she is. Meanwhile, her polices would kill 30 million. COMMUNISM is far more evil than Radical Islam!
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51 posted on 03/15/2019 6:20:50 AM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: Raebie

No not the NRA she hit on The Almighty who is the receiver of prayers.


52 posted on 03/15/2019 6:21:26 AM PDT by Gasshog
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To: LRoggy

Thanks LRoggy I posted before reading your post.

Freegards!


53 posted on 03/15/2019 6:21:49 AM PDT by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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To: Raebie

Stupid has a new script.


54 posted on 03/15/2019 6:21:57 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Organized Crime is now in charge of the District of Corruption)
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To: Cvengr
This was an everyday scene I shot while sitting at an intersection.

5 of them all under age 10. We are done. It isn't Animal Farm but it's close...buried in a sea of brood mares thanks to elites who will build a moat and leave the rest of us to it.


55 posted on 03/15/2019 6:21:59 AM PDT by relictele
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To: Raebie

This little socialist agrees with infanticide..it’s ok with her to murder a baby, and it’s ok to cease the death penalty, and its ok to protect illegals so they can roam anywhere, but she wants our guns? What is important to her hairbrain is upside down and her right and wrong is badly skewed.

All the attention has given her the idea she is brilliant and continues to preach to all.


56 posted on 03/15/2019 6:23:09 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: Raebie
" the lawmaker wrote,"

This irritates me to no end. She's labeled as a law maker. A stupid bartender is now referred to as a lawmaker. One shouldn't get that title till one has earned it.

57 posted on 03/15/2019 6:25:02 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Raebie
She used the word “pew” over “chair” or “seat”! She must be using one of those “How to Improve Your Vocabulary” pamphlets! I'm impressed!
58 posted on 03/15/2019 6:25:05 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: odawg

Pews? I thot Muslims kneeled on the floor

Don’t need no steeking pews in a mosque AOC.


59 posted on 03/15/2019 6:25:17 AM PDT by Gasshog
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To: cowboyusa

If she shares that view about Islam, she will find herself in hot water.


60 posted on 03/15/2019 6:26:03 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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