Mother Of Aurora Shooting Victim Confronts McCain At Town Hall (w/ McCain's scumbag response)

[WilliamPitt]

Last edited Thu Feb 21, 2013, 03:40 PM - Edit history (1)

Mother Of Aurora Shooting Victim Confronts McCain At Town Hall
TPM

Thursday Feb. 21, 2013

The mother of a victim of the Aurora, Colo. movie theater massacre confronted Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) at a town hall Wednesday, urging him to support a ban on assault weapons.

"My 24-year-old son Alex was murdered in a movie theater in Colorado," Caren Teves said, according to KTVK. "These assault rifles allow the shooter to fire many rounds without having to reload. These weapons do not belong on our streets."

McCain responded: “I can tell you right now you need some straight talk. That assault weapons ban will not pass the Congress of the United States." McCain added that he is working on legislation that would keep guns out of the wrong hands while preserving the Second Amendment.

Link: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/mother-of-aurora-shooting-victim-confronts-mccain-at

Emphasis added by me.

He's probably right about the ban not getting through Congress (especially the House), but what kind of soulless, heartless, wretched, vomitous, gruesome, ghoulish piece of rancid flyblown shit tells a woman who lost her son in a massacre that she "needs some straight talk."

Oh, right, it's John McCain.

The pluperfect turd.



On edit...the crowd cheered him when he said it: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/crowd-cheers-after-mccain-tells-aurora-victims-mother

[kaiden]

1. Time to load up old John on a gurney.

[Hayabusa]

2. I would have rushed the bastard

if I was in her shoes. What an asshole response to someone who has been touched by the very violence these laws are trying to prevent.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

5. I would have at least dressed down the coward right then and there.

I would have called him the coward that he is for being tied to the NRA or at least for not trying to lead. Yes, he is a senator, but if he doesn't have any pull with some republicans then he should admit it and step aside.

If he can take abuse from his crazies, then he should at least man up and take it from those who have really been affected by gun violence.

Yes, John is quite an extraordinary asshole.

[LonePirate]

3. All of us need to join Caren Teves in confronting these scumbags at their town halls

We must not relent.

[Jennicut]

4. McCain has always been an asshole but this tops it all.

And I read this after watching my Senator, Sen. Murphy, talking eloquently about Newtown on the local gov channel. He deserves to be slapped. What an old, mean bastard.

[xtraxritical]

19. I know a few Arizona seniors and they're all pretty gruf and embarassingly straight forward.

[TeamPooka]

6. a colostomy bag has more empathy than John McCain. nt

[beac]

20. And it's more useful and less full of shit too.

John McCain is, and always has been, SCUM.

[TeamPooka]

22. so true.

[Bake]

7. McCain needs to go straight to hell, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

What a piece of dog sh*t he is! Incomprehensibly so.

Bake

[Gore1FL]

8. "You need some straight talk"

translates to me, "I understand you aren't looking for bullshit answers, so here it is:"

I don't find that outrageous. If I were the woman, I would find it encouraging that he understood I wanted a flat-out answer.


There are plenty of things to credibly criticize McCain about. Suggesting that the woman wanted unvarnished answers is is not one of those things.

[frylock]

9. someone should explain to McJohnny that the straight talk express..

derailed a long time ago. this doddering old fool still thinks it's 2007 ffs.

[sufrommich]

10. He is such an asshole. I hope the woman told

him to go fuck himself.

[gademocrat7]

11. How terrible

No compassion for a senseless murder. McCain is past his sell date.

[Mr.Bill]

12. I wonder if people were allowed to bring their guns

to his town hall meeting. Or did he feel safer without guns in the room?

[hack89]

14. He should have smiled, given her some general platitudes

and politely moved on. She has gone through enough.

[freshwest]

16. True. Instead, he had to use his campaign dog whistle.

[October]

15. Wtf? People cheered him?

I loathe McCain and probably have done so for longer than most. But the audiences cheered???

That poor woman. OMG. Why are so many people so heartless - until it happens to them? Wow.

[October]

17. Wtf? People cheered him?

I loathe McCain and probably have done so for longer than most. But the audiences cheered???

That poor woman. OMG. Why are so many people so heartless - until it happens to them? Wow.

[timdog44]

23. I agree with you.

I saw the same thing. These people cheered him when he said what he did. He is a true scumbag for saying that, but then the crowd cheered him, putting them in the same class him. That poor woman.

[October]

24. Just read an updated piece on this story here at DU...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022412698


“I wasn’t surprised,” Teves said. “It’s a large, divided issue. I did start my sentence with — and I believe this — ‘I am a supporter of the Second Amendment.’ What they did not show you in that clip was after I did say that the military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines don’t belong on our streets, there was also some huge support and applause that unfortunately was cut out of that clip.” Teves was accompanied at the town hall event by Patricia Maisch, the woman who helped stop shooter Jared Lee Loughner in the Tucson, Ariz., massacre in January 2011. Maisch also recorded McCain’s comments on video, and later told TPM she was disappointed by the senator’s response. “I always wish there was a more positive outcome after those events,” Maisch said.

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[spanone]

18. heartless.

[Initech]

21. I am so glad he and Caribou Barbie aren't the ones in charge!

[BainsBane]

25. soulless and heartless

describes the pro-gun forces perfectly.

[sasha031]

26. I read in an earlier piece when Caren Teves spoke to McCain about her murdered son

He said "Thank you for your service" prior to giving the grieving mother the McCain straight talk.

Yes and the crowd cheered... Republicanism is truly a disease.