Posted on 10/02/2015 5:56:09 PM PDT by huldah1776
Presidential candidate Jeb Bush made an eyebrow-raising comment in the wake of the Oregon school massacre -- saying "stuff happens" in response to a discussion about gun violence.
Bush called the shooting in Oregon "heartbreaking," and said he also had challenges that he faced during his tenure as governor of Florida.
"Look stuff happens, there's always a crisis and the impulse is always to do something and it's not always the right thing to do," Bush said at the Conservative Leadership Project in Greenville, South Carolina, referring to taking away rights.
(Excerpt) Read more at gma.yahoo.com ...
He’s absolutely correct on this. I’m not a Bush fan and I wish he’d just leave the race but he’s right on this. Stuff happens and every time a crazy goes off doesn’t warrant new bureaucracy. Everything that guy in Oregon did was already illegal. He didn’t have a criminal record nor a bad psychological evaluation that indicated he was a threat and honestly the vast majority of guys that fit his profile are not and never become threats to anyone so the idea that some how we can legislate ourselves to safety is crazy especially if we value the very foundational idea of our legal system which is that one is innocent till proven guilty. We do not just declare someone a criminal because they are weird.
Who in tarnation would want to vote for the dumb Bush brother?
Reuters, NY Times, Wall Street Journal. Thing is, every slogan counts. The MSM will use it. Just saying. I’m a Gold Star sister and know stuff happens, but don’t want to hear it without a little respect.
Obama reacted emotionally to the shooting during an address Thursday and lamented that mass shootings had become "routine" in the U.S. He also called for greater gun control.And yet, Obama doesn't care one fig for the hundreds of babies who die in the womb on a daily basis in America.
Doesn’t matter.
This is what is on Facebook:
#StuffHappens: Hashtag of Jeb Bush’s Response to Discussion of Gun Violence Surfaces Online
Not good, which is fine with me. I can’t stand him.
Gotta say, yay, Bush.
The media will always take words out of context if it suits their meme. The supposed advantage of professional candidates is the ability to couch their speech to avoid obvious pitfalls.
This is going to be the final nail. It might or might not be fair, but politics ain’t beanbag.
Adios, El Jefe Mofo.
Regardless of what he meant, Jeb! has foot in mouth disease. More gaffes than Biden and that’s a mother-load.
At least he said it in English.
Indeed he is correct.
Yahoo News is one of the worst media outlets there are.
BUSH: And this president – you know, the tendency when we have these tragedies that took place yesterday, it’s just heartbreaking to see these things, but this is the broader question of rule-making I think is an important point to make. That whenever you see a tragedy take place, the impulse in the political system, most, more often than at the federal level, but also at the state level, is to ‘do something,’ right? And what we end up doing lots of times is we create rules on the 99.999 percent of human activity that had nothing to do with the tragedy that forced the conversation about doing something. And we’re taking people’s rights away each time we do that, and we’re not necessarily focusing on the real challenge. So if we have people that are mentally ill, to the point where they go into the vortex and they don’t come out and they’re hateful, and they’re in isolation, and they kill people. The impulse in Washington is take personal rights away from the rest of us. And it won’t solve the problem of this tragedy that is just heartbreaking to see. Maybe we oughtta be more connected in our communities. Maybe we oughtta have greater awareness of the mental health challenges that exist all across this country. Maybe there’s a better way to deal with this than taking people’s human, you know, personal liberty away every time we, you know, kind of require people to do something.
Moderator: And I remember right after Columbine. And this is a long, long time ago I was listening to the radio, and they were talking about how schools you’re not allowed to have prayer vigils. But the second – being allowed to pray, I should say, or have, you know, Christian or Jewish or whatever faith-based groups on these public education schools. But then the guy said, you know it’s funny that you send a guy there with an Uzi or a handgun to shoot a bunch of people, the first thing they do after the tragedy..
BUSH: Of course.
Moderator:--prayer vigil, whatever the faith-based group is and always to say that you should do that on the front end, maybe you wouldn’t have these tragedies on the back end.
BUSH: Yeah, it’s, we’re in a difficult time in our country, and I don’t think more government is necessarily the answer to this. I think we need to re-connect ourselves with everybody else, it’s just, it’s very sad to see. But I resist the notion – and I did, I had this, this challenge as governor, because we have, look, stuff happens, there’s always a crisis, and the impulse is always to do something, and it’s not necessarily the right thing to do.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/02/when-asked-about-school-shootings-jeb-bush-says-stuff-happens/
Yahoo has become an extreme leftist, liberal, America-sullying piece of garbage, especially ever since Marissa Mayer took the helm.
Their “articles” are usually pure garbage intent on feeding liberal trolls. Once in awhile, there’s a news article there but it’s on rare occasion. It’s mostly, and overwhelmingly, leftist agitator propaganda suitable for Salon.
So was Kevin McCarthy
2 clumsy RINO politicians within a week
It’s ABC ...has been for a long time...where you been ?
I heard his statement in context and it wasn’t controversial, but it won’t break my heart if he gets beaten about the head and shoulders over it.
You’d be surprised how many in TX adore all Bushes. They gave George P. some 72 percent of the vote for land commissioner in 2014. I believe he got nearly as many votes as did now Governor Abbott.
Jeb needs to quietly fade away.
Even in context, it sounds weak, vague, and uncaring.
¡Yeb! should probably stick to Spanish, he seems to have a hard time conveying his views in English.
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