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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
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To: ADSUM

“God allows wicked people to do bad things that hurt and kill others (free will).”

Truth!

Still, I believe we would be amazed at all the evil things He HAS thwarted.


81 posted on 03/15/2019 6:47:29 AM PDT by avenir
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To: Raebie

Didn’t Pelosi say exactly the same thing to the NRA about ‘thoughts and prayers’ after the synagogue shooting in Pennsylvania?


82 posted on 03/15/2019 6:50:11 AM PDT by real saxophonist (One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
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To: Raebie

83 posted on 03/15/2019 6:51:30 AM PDT by eaglestar
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To: Raebie

They’ve been using this “thoughts and prayers” sneer for a while.


84 posted on 03/15/2019 6:51:32 AM PDT by avenir
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To: elcid1970

Western civilization and Western tradition are under assault by Leftists, Muslims, Communists, the media and any group, ideology, religion or nation which is against The People having equal or greater rights, liberties and freedom than their leaders.

The Slavers of history are ascendant, working together agasint the free.


85 posted on 03/15/2019 6:52:36 AM PDT by Justa
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To: wastoute

This is somewhat of a copy tactic over the 2011 Norway attack, with Anders Behring Breivik. Breivik also got into this manifesto-type ‘explanation’, used a Mini-14 and Gluck pistol, but had nothing to do with religion. In the Breivik case, he slaughtered mostly kids at a summer camp, who the parents were the politically connected of Sweden. He felt that taking out this generation, would unravel the political mess that was harming Norway.

In this case, the NZ shooter is alive, claims ‘innocence’ and wants the trial to present all of his ideas in a public spectacle. I suspect that the authorities are debating the court business, and intend to just declare him insane.

Having been to NZ (last year), I will say that the south isle in particular has most of its population around Christchurch. There’s just not much crime in the city itself and only a limited number of police. I can’t think of any part of the town that was really unsafe to walk, even at night.


86 posted on 03/15/2019 6:56:02 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Raebie

The little Taco Barmaid Princess needs to tell us how the NRA is involved in the shooting in New Zealand. Is she confusing New Zealand with New Orleans?


87 posted on 03/15/2019 6:56:50 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Pravious

Thank you, sir!


88 posted on 03/15/2019 6:58:00 AM PDT by chris37 (No wall? No vote.)
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To: relictele
Did your neighbors also have six? And your neighbor's neighbors as well?

In our Catholic homeschooler community, our family with six kids is about average.

How about you? How many did you have?
89 posted on 03/15/2019 6:59:15 AM PDT by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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To: taxcontrol

Didn’t an armed man in the second mosque the shooter entered stop the nut-job by shooting back?
AOC and her parrots in the media need to be reminded that the real source of “GUN violence” is not in the gun, but the human using it.
Afterall, the media did not talk about “plane violence” on 9/11!


90 posted on 03/15/2019 7:00:01 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
The official name is National Rifle Association Of America. So what does the National Rifle Association Of America have to do with anything that happens in New Zealand, or Norway, or anywhere else?
91 posted on 03/15/2019 7:02:05 AM PDT by real saxophonist (One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
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To: Raebie; All

Communism and Islam are both genocidal ideologies competing for the highest body count. Islam has had 1,400 years to murder hundreds of millions, particularly in India, but Communism has killed at least 100 million in the 20th century alone.

AOC is cordially invited to the place of eternal damnation at her earliest possible convenience. A warm reception is guaranteed.


92 posted on 03/15/2019 7:02:24 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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To: Raebie

Well, I found the top quote from the daily mail:

Tarrant said he was a supporter of Donald Trump as a ‘symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose’.

Proof once again that Trump hates everyone that isn’t white. Or something. As to ‘aoc’, has she joined the gaggle of folks who have decided not to procreate. Please. So, tougher gun laws in NZ?


93 posted on 03/15/2019 7:03:10 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Raebie

This woman is just garden variety stupid.

Not special, just garden variety.


94 posted on 03/15/2019 7:08:15 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: PBRCat

Don’t even bother responding to her... she’s such a s*&t for brains!


95 posted on 03/15/2019 7:09:58 AM PDT by SMARTY (Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Ortega y Gasset)
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To: Raebie

She's As Dumb As A Stump


96 posted on 03/15/2019 7:11:55 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Raebie

Everything that follows” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)” can be safely ignored.


97 posted on 03/15/2019 7:13:13 AM PDT by UB355 (Slower tAraffic keep right)
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To: Alberta's Child

LOL!


98 posted on 03/15/2019 7:17:59 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Academia is where totally useless, parasitic ideologues and idiots go to hide from reality.)
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To: Enlightened1

AOC, a face like the front end of a horse and the brains like the back end.


99 posted on 03/15/2019 7:19:16 AM PDT by anoldafvet
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To: Raebie

I guess the little bug-eyed b*tch doesn’t realize that they HAVE nearly complete gun control in Australia and New Zealand.


100 posted on 03/15/2019 7:20:38 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (President Trump is right! The media IS the enemy of the people!)
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