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'A plague upon this nation': Lawmakers react to Texas mass shooting that killed 21
Yahoo News ^ | May 25, 2022

Posted on 05/25/2022 12:15:43 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

A day after another deadly mass shooting in the United States and with no gun control legislation in sight, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that “there is a plague upon this nation.” But he admitted action was unlikely.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, reacted to the shooting in his home state by writing, ​“Heidi & I are fervently lifting up in prayer the children and families in the horrific shooting in Uvalde. We are in close contact with local officials, but the precise details are still unfolding. Thank you to heroic law enforcement & first responders for acting so swiftly.”

… Other representatives were even more direct toward Cruz, who told reporters, “Inevitably when there's a murderer of this kind, you see politicians try to politicize it, you see Democrats and a lot of folks in the media whose immediate solution is to try to restrict the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens.”

“F*** you [Ted Cruz] you care about a fetus but you will let our children get slaughtered,” wrote Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., an Iraq War veteran, who then referred to Cruz’s Mexican vacation last year when much of Texas was without power. “Just get your ass to Cancun. You are useless.”

To ensure no confusion about his position, 17 minutes after that message Gallego added, “Just to be clear f*** you [Ted Cruz] you f****** baby killer.”

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To: Spok

If I am not mistaken this is the same game plan used in Australia to disarm


41 posted on 05/25/2022 1:32:42 PM PDT by Hot Rod Garage (Shark)
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To: fredmann

Long ago—In the 1950s, the Experts blamed Comic Books for Youth crime. Comic books like Crypt of Terror were banned. Its not Graphic Novels that’s causing this—its bloody video games— Most can see its a game—some maladjusted people see it as a lesson plan. We need more mental hospitals—Big Ones. To save money we closed them up—we got rise in mental crimes and homeless mental patients on the street. These troubled kids need to be singled out in school and sent there. Cost would be high but Lives would be saved. Ban Bloody Video Games! Man Bloody Movies! Ban anything that de-humanizes people.


42 posted on 05/25/2022 1:40:30 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There were plenty of firearms floating around in the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. Getting them was much easier too.

You didn’t have mass school shootings.

We do now. What has changed since then?

Could it be perhaps that our cultural changes have sent the message that young/innocent life has no value?

How could that have happened?


43 posted on 05/25/2022 1:42:03 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Time to start red flagging the transfags.


44 posted on 05/25/2022 1:44:07 PM PDT by Mr. Rabbit
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To: nesnah

It looks to me like a disproportionate amount of mass shootings and certainly school shootings are from gays.

They make up 3% of the population and are roughly half of the school shooters and serial killers.


45 posted on 05/25/2022 1:44:39 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Mr. Rabbit

Yes, yes it is.


46 posted on 05/25/2022 1:44:57 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ted didn’t mention about Heidi and him thinking about the victims and their families, though they clearly are. Else why make the statement?


47 posted on 05/25/2022 1:48:52 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Transgenders are a plague on this nation. I agree completely.


48 posted on 05/25/2022 1:49:36 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: wny

It’s no arguement. The plague on this nation is the godless liberals and their ilk.


49 posted on 05/25/2022 1:54:09 PM PDT by nanook (Thomas Jefferson was right.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If Cruz still has any balls he needs give that Gallego ghoul a serious beatdown.


50 posted on 05/25/2022 1:58:15 PM PDT by tomkat ( SOTU = FUBAR )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The guns aren’t the problem.


51 posted on 05/25/2022 2:07:28 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Harpotoo

It is starting to look as if this was staged and we need to ask ourselves: cui bono?

Every one of these mass shooters were known troublemakers and nothing was done.

The democrats and elitists are deliberately staging these shootings to create the perfect storm in order to disarm us; it is much easier to kill people who can’t defend themselves and remember: every genocide was preceded by a gun grab.

(If they were really serious about stopping violence, they would crack down on the inner cities; more people are killed in one week in Chicago than in school shootings.)

And another thing, think on this: it sure as heck isn’t the inner city gangbangers that they are seeking to disarm.

Who are they trying to disarm? think through the implications....


52 posted on 05/25/2022 2:29:03 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a wnearning to all anti-semites)
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To: Harpotoo

EXACTLY

OPEN the mental hospitals & USE THEM !!!!


53 posted on 05/25/2022 2:34:24 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gallego’s father was from Mexico and his mother from Colombia. Mexico and Colombia have extremely restrictive gun control laws. Only wealthy people favored by the governments of those countries are allowed to have firearms.

And you know that there are very dangerous places in those countries, especially contemporary Mexico. The murder rate in Mexico is far higher per capita than here.


54 posted on 05/25/2022 2:39:49 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi

If they were trying to create shooters, what would they do differently?

LE diligently ignores every one of these shooters continually running up huge red flags.

Schools do absolutely nothing to stop bullying.

Schools do absolutely nothing to give awkward kids social skills.

Generational crime families are actually funded by the welfare state.

Vulnerable kids are left in dysfunctional and abusive homes while kids are ripped away from homeschool families.

Schools do their level best to shut out any parents who do want to be involved.

Schools indoctrinate kids with nihilistic Darwin, Marx, and Freud nonsense that poisons their soul.


55 posted on 05/25/2022 2:44:31 PM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: HamiltonJay

They said he shot the 2 security personnel. And he got in through a back door.

Again I would like to know myself how he got in that door.


56 posted on 05/25/2022 4:19:47 PM PDT by winterystorm
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To: nesnah

what changed is there are No family unit like back then. Most kids had a Mom and dad and they went to church and the kids were taught right from wrong.

I agree today the video game and movie industry the leading groomers of this behavior.


57 posted on 05/25/2022 4:25:22 PM PDT by winterystorm
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To: winterystorm

What’s changed is that we have had 50 years of indiscriminately tossing dead babies in dumpsters. What kind of message do you think that has sent to a generation and a half of our youngest?


58 posted on 05/25/2022 4:31:27 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Single moms aren’t getting the job done.


59 posted on 05/25/2022 4:35:56 PM PDT by Mashood
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To: Hot Rod Garage

How the hell does this happen? How are the doors unlocked ?

Been at least 1 if not 2 decades now since I could walk in a door of a school without being let in..


60 posted on 05/25/2022 4:56:44 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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