Posted on 08/05/2019 8:39:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
Speaking from the White House Monday morning with Vice President Mike Pence by his side, President Donald Trump addressed the nation and responded to two mass shootings that took place over the weekend. Dozens of people were killed and severely wounded in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas.
"These barbaric slaughters are an assault upon our communities, an attack on our nation and a crime against all humanity. We are outraged by this monstrous evil, the cruelty, the malice, bloodshed and the terror. Our hearts are shattered for every family whose parents, children, husbands and wives were ripped from their arms and their lives. America weeps for the fallen. We are a loving nation and our children are entitled to grow up in a just, peaceful and loving society," Trump said, calling law enforcement who responded to the shootings American heroes. "Together we lock arms to shoulder the grief. We ask God in heaven to ease the anguish of those who suffer and we vow to act with urgent resolve."
"In one voice our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy," he continued. "These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America."
President Trump called for action to solve mass shootings and urged Congress to put partisanship aside to come up with solutions.
"Now is the time to set destructive partisanship aside," Trump said. "Our future is in our control. America will always rise to the challenge....it is not up to mentally ill monsters, it is up to us."
"Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun...I am open and ready to listen and discuss all ideas that will actually work and make a very big difference," he continued.
President Trump gave a detailed outline of what the White House is doing in the meantime to solve this problem.
"The internet has provided a dangerous avenue to radicalize disturbed minds and perform demented acts. We must shine light on the dark recesses of the internet and stop mass murders before they start," he said, directing Attorney General Bill Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray to fully investigate.
President Trump also urged social media companies to develop tools to detect mass shooters and advocated for a death penalty against mass shooters that is delivered "quickly and decisively."
President Trump also sent his condolences to the Mexican government after a number of citizens were killed in El Paso.
The flags at the White House have been lowered to half-staff and will remain there until Thursday in honor of the victims.
You can watch the President's full remarks below.
I missed this today but someone on facebook was mortified saying that POTUS smirked and laughed at the thought of joking around about shooting immigrants. She referenced some British source which had a film clip where he referenced the Fl Panhandle.
I have no clue what she’s talking about.
I can’t win in any convo about all of this not being his fault because people hit me back with saying he sends terrible tweets and puts people down, etc.
Death penalty for drug kingpins, too. And coyotes.
>> The SOB’s don’t care if they live or die. They will do their deed, get on the front page and be famous.
Suggestions:
1/ Prohibit the news media from using the killer’s name or displaying his photo after, say, 12 to 24 hours.
2/ After a short time, severely limit news coverage until a final police report is issued.
3/ Prohibit the family from reclaiming the body or having other than a non-public memorial service. Prohibit press coverage.
4/ After autopsy mandate the body be donated to a medical school.
5/ Mandate that the body be ultimately disposed of in sewage.
Other suggestions? Anyone? Anyone?
How about we bring back the death penalty for all murders..like the Saudis
Barbaric?..maybe - but it works
They have 3 Walmarts in Juarez.
That’s all well and good but, most have a death wish anyhow.
Correct as most off themselves anyway...the ones that do not will have wished they had as they will be handled like Hannibal Lecter...
The “white supremacists” KKK and segregationists are democRATs.
Blacks are outnumbered 5-to-1 in the population by whites, they commit eight times as many crimes against whites as the reverse. In 2007 numbers, a black male was 40 times as likely to assault a white person as the reverse.
In New York from January to June 2008, 83 percent of all gun assailants were black, according to witnesses and victims, though blacks were only 24 percent of the population. Blacks and Hispanics together accounted for 98 percent of all gun assailants. Forty-nine of every 50 muggings and murders in the Big Apple were the work of black or Hispanic criminals.
Interracial rape is almost exclusively black on white ” with 14,000 assaults on white women by African Americans in 2007. Not one case of a white sexual assault on a black female was found in the FBI study.”
Never gonna happen. We can’t even clean up the sh*t and dirty needles in the streets. Lawyers would tie this up in court for twenty years. Can’t even build a freaking border wall.
The El Paso shooter said he never intended to get captured but, he must have changed his mind.
Enh. Let them make an honest buck chasing ambulances.
Well he will wish he had of as he will be handled like a mad dog killer that he is till they give him the needle.
I know right? A Wall. That’s as basic as it gets. You have a country, you have a line on the map. It’s THE 1ST FUNCTION OF GOVERNMENT. Nope! Can’t have that!
Sure sure, the tax payers can be burdened by paying for the worlds largest military in human history, but enforcing your national territory? Pfffft. Who would fight in the middle east?
“Federal death penalty for what?”
Murdering more than two people in a single event.
Many states do not have, or do not have an EFFECTIVE death penalty.
The Feds do.
>>We even did away with the “last meal” thing a few years ago, as the requested meals were getting outrageous.<<
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Well I was layin’ in my cell on death row,
When I heard the warden say;
He said “Ray you got one more day, you got one last meal before we carry you away.”
He said “if we ain’t got it son, we’re gonna have to send out and get it”.
“And you don’t have to go, you don’t have to go to that electric chair until we get back with it.”
So I turned to the warden and then I said...
Bring me two dinosaur eggs over easy,
Fried in butter, and not too greasy,
Mosquito knees and black eyed peas,
A little bit of butter on my bee bop beans, a saber tooth tiger steak
A whole hippopotamus...well baked
So go, and get my dinner, go, and get my dinner
You ain’t got it, go out and get it
Cause I ain’t goin’ till you get back with it
Now bring me a cup of crocodile tears
I want a purple watermelon and some alligator ears
Two cross-eyed catfish, and a female banana I can’t resist.
Now bring me an order of those fried moon beams
A barbequed brick of chocolate ice cream.
So go and get my dinner, go, and get my dinner
You ain’t got it, go out and get it
Cause I ain’t goin’ till you get back with it
Now go, and get my dinner, go
And get my dinner, go
And get my dinner, go
And get my dinner
You ain’t got it, got to go out and get it
Cause I ain’t goin’ till you get back with it.
-Asleep at the wheel
The states can handle the punishment for these crimes as they see fit. Given the fact that Texas has the death penalty and actively carries it out, I know what punishment I’m expecting for that perp.
That alone is not a federal crime. It's a state matter.
Many states do not have, or do not have an EFFECTIVE death penalty.
The Feds do.
Which is meaningless unless a federal crime has been broken.
I do not know what it entails, but there is a Federal Statute on murder now.
This isn’t a President issue.
The guy in Dayton was an Elizbeth Warren junkie, socialist/commie, liberal loving pig, AND a white supremacist?? Commie and white supremacist don't seem to fit.
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