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Donald Trump on WDBJ-TV shootings: ‘This isn’t a gun problem; this is a mental problem’
The Washington Times ^ | 08/27/2015 | David Sherfinski

Posted on 08/27/2015 6:00:03 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said in the wake of Wednesday morning’s shooting deaths on live TV of a reporter and videographer in Virginia that it isn’t a gun problem but a “mental problem.”

Asked Thursday on CNN’s “New Day” if he would do something different about gun policy, Mr. Trump said: “Well, I don’t think I would, because this is really a sick person. This isn’t a gun problem; this is a mental problem.”

“Frankly, you know, a case like this, he snuck up on ‘em. Whether it was a gun or a knife or whatever it would have been, it would have been something,” Mr. Trump said. “But you know, you’re not going to get rid of all guns, so I know one thing: if you tried to do it, the bad guys would have ‘em, to use an expression, and the good folks would abide by the law. They’d be hopeless and. … it would be a hopeless situation for them, and I think it’s a big mistake.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2ndamendment; afroturf; astroturf; banglist; blackkk; blackliesmatter; blacklivesmatter; election2016; mentalillness; newyork; redistribution; reparations; secondamendment; trump; vesterflanagan; vesterleeflanagan; virginia; wdbj; whiteprivilege
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Amen. Do a search of mass murderers in American history and see how many were homosexuals.


61 posted on 08/27/2015 7:48:09 AM PDT by NKP_Vet ("I got a good Christian raisin', an 8th grade education,Ain't no need y'all treatin' me this way")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

From Fox News:

The crazed gunman who executed on live morning TV two local news journalists who worked at his former station lived surrounded by publicity photos of himself, in a squalid apartment awash with gay porn and sex toys.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/27/inside-vester-lee-flanagan-life/?intcmp=hpbt4


62 posted on 08/27/2015 7:50:06 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: WKUHilltopper

On January 20, 2009 our once great country began a downward spiral into a country where the prison inmates, thugs, druggies, criminals, illegals, gays, and baby killers run the country....led by the biggest America Hater of all time, POTUS, Barack Hussein Obama. We have gun laws up the you know what....most of them are ignored by Obama, his Black Racist Obamabots and his vermin Democrat Party!!!

Every single passing day we have another horrible shooting and murder. Chicago, New York, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Detroit, etc are the “Murder Malls” and slaughter arcades of the Obama nation!!! Donald Trump, love, like or hate him is absolutely right....new guns laws will only serve to further the goals of Obama and his criminal, illegal elements of killer humanity!!!


63 posted on 08/27/2015 7:56:31 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party!!!)
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To: rdl6989

His sordid, demented homo lifestyle will never be discussed when talking about his “mental problems”.


64 posted on 08/27/2015 7:57:43 AM PDT by NKP_Vet ("I got a good Christian raisin', an 8th grade education,Ain't no need y'all treatin' me this way")
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To: NKP_Vet

The secular world pretty much maneuvered the two into being separate considerations.

Still, was there anything particularly “homo” about this murder. Like a jilted lover, or a rebuffed would-be romance. Would a sordid, demented life of “ordinary” adultery get such right wing discussion? Why not?


65 posted on 08/27/2015 8:01:06 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: WKUHilltopper
Its a spiritual problem. This is what the country wants. It has rejected God.

60,000,000+ innocent unborn children's lives were brutally terminated at the hands of PP.

The point is, this country no longer values human life. Whether at the beginning while in the womb and all the way through to the end where our elderly are shuffled off to live in some form of government group home(for lack of a better term.)

Indeed this country has a spiritual problem due to rejecting God's law.

66 posted on 08/27/2015 8:01:55 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Well this seems to have gotten Trump on the record as pro self defense. Will he keep this new conservative epiphany up? I am praying that he will. I see forces greater than Donald Trump in play here.


67 posted on 08/27/2015 8:02:28 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: usconservative

Even more fundamental than God’s “law” (which we might try to obey for purely selfish purposes) is God’s “love.”

Do people really take at face value that God cares?


68 posted on 08/27/2015 8:03:35 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
it isn’t a gun problem but a “mental problem.”

I think that's true with ALL of these shootings with the exception of the terrorist shootings. We refuse to call these what they are becuase it isn't PC It's not workplace violence, it;s Islamic Terrorism It isn't guns, it's people with mental illness

69 posted on 08/27/2015 8:05:17 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Spot on.


70 posted on 08/27/2015 8:07:45 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: 1Old Pro

Evil itself is an illness, and yet it is more. It is also a “moral problem.” It’s something we ought to want to combat (through goodness). And goodness can only come from God. It can come THROUGH people, but only FROM God.


71 posted on 08/27/2015 8:08:58 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: usconservative

From the beginning, when humanity in sin began to have consequent problems, God pointed out who was making capital of the situation and causing the problems, and it wasn’t Him. “Who told you that you were naked?” (That dastardly serpent, mocking the ones he had just enticed into tripping up.)


72 posted on 08/27/2015 8:11:09 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: gibsosa
more common sense out of the Donald...

And the pundits are scratching their heads wondering why he has 40% support. People are sick of talking in PC code which only masks the underlying problems.

73 posted on 08/27/2015 8:13:45 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ScottinVA
We've exchanged the well-documented horrors of state-run mental institutions for a different set of less well-documented horrors faced by the mentally ill and their victims on the streets.
74 posted on 08/27/2015 8:38:39 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Once again, Trump is right.

There has been no word on what this monster’s religion was. Anyone know?


75 posted on 08/27/2015 8:41:32 AM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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"Donald Trump on WDBJ-TV shootings:
‘This isn’t a gun problem;
this is a mental problem’...."


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76 posted on 08/27/2015 8:45:08 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“The guy was a homosexual. Homosexuality is a mental illness.”

Absolutely correct.

And from another great source, the best source, here is what He says...

Romans 1:..
22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools.. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.

Note also that Romans 1:32 points out that those who approve of such conduct are just as guilty as those who engage in it.

Lev 18:22 “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination....

25‘For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants.”


77 posted on 08/27/2015 8:48:48 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: Envisioning

This is also an employer backcheck problem. He was known to have issues, but they won’t let employers tell each other these things nowadays. This is total BS. People died because of BS PC....


78 posted on 08/27/2015 8:52:20 AM PDT by Envisioning (4.13.15 - That awkward moment in history when 53 million racists became sexists...)
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To: mrsmith

but will the rainbow flag get the blame seeing as he was a homosexual?


79 posted on 08/27/2015 8:57:09 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: hal ogen

The also wanted them closed due to homosexuals and cross dressers getting put back in the mental place where they belong today for many of them.


80 posted on 08/27/2015 8:57:56 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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