Very likely his “47 %” comment.
Bush
Meh
Watch the video, not the headline. He is absolutely correct.
It’s hard not to form the impression the Governor Bush really has no interest in running for the job of president. He comes across as lazy, silly & listless. I seen him do an interview at a local Boston TV station & admit that he smashed Trump’s hand as hard as he could in the last debate because he was angry about how Trump talked about his family. Strange guy.
Go Yahoo! Take Bush’s comment out of context and destroy him!
Well... he is correct on this point.
Things DO happen, and no one can control them.
But - you CAN mitigate a situation and lessen the slaughter if you are armed - much more so than if you are unarmed.
And since that was a “gun-free zone” - which didn’t work too well - the outcome is what it is.
“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,”
I actually agree with that statement in it’s full context. But you ain’t getting my vote Bush III.
Sheesh, and they think Trump is insensitive?
Stuff happens, and then you go home to Miami.
Genius, sheer genius. We’ve misjudged him. I used to give him the benefit of the doubt as to being somewhat intelligent.
What a comment.
I can’t stand Jeb Bush and I’ll never vote for him under any circumstances, but he’s actually right for once.
There are tons of murders all over no one says anything about. Then a shooting occurs, the media salivates, the liberals yell gun control and some POS gets famous.
He was here in Greenville and I never even saw it reported on our news. Maybe because we’re expecting a foot of rain.
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.
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.
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/
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.
Jeb needs to quietly fade away.
¡Yeb! should probably stick to Spanish, he seems to have a hard time conveying his views in English.