When 20 children and six adults were shot dead in Sandy Hook, where were the shaken up GOPeers?

[Stinky The Clown]

Okay, I feel bad for the congressman who is now in critical condition.

Do his fellow GOPeers feel equally bad for the nameless shooting victims across America today? Make no mistake, there were a lot of them. As there are every day, all year long.

Today we got to see shaken lawmakers. Lawmakers who watch one of them get shot by a nut with a gun. An assault rifle, by most accounts I have heard, was the weapon used.

I hope they keep that terror they felt front and center next time Wayne LaPierre comes calling, looking for more support for some gun bill or another. I hope they keep that terror front and center when Wayne's bag man comes by with their stipend.

I hope they remember.

[NCTraveler]

1. That was a price "we" pay for our freedums. Nt

[MiniMe]

2. They are busy taking money from the NRA

[WiffenPoof]

3. Sandy Hook Has Never Left My Thoughts

For whatever reason, I have never been able to shake the memory of what happened at Sandy Hook. I thought for sure after that horrific tragedy that something would finally be done about guns in this country.

If I recall, a week after New Town (Sandy Hook), a national poll was taken that asked if there should be a strengthening of the gun control laws in our country. A full 92% of respondents said YES. 92%! We never see that kind of support ever in this country.

But nothing happened....NOTHING!

I am convinced that if we didn't strengthen our gun control laws after Sandy Hook, they would never be strengthened.

Sad.

On Edit: If 92% of the American people want to see something done, and nothing is done....Then we know that there is something seriously wrong with this country.

-P

[mwooldri]

24. I remember Dunblane.

Unlike America, the UK done something about it. I remember my dad had an air pistol that looked like a handgun. After Dunblane, he turned it in, just to be safe... handguns got banned because of this mass school shooting. There have not been many mass shootings in the UK since then. This ban on guns is a good thing for the UK. Remember recently there were a few people who went on the rampage with knives and a vehicle? Just imagine if they had guns.

Now America has a gun culture, and it's in the Constitution that one can have a gun. While I don't advocate for a revocation of the 2nd amendment, I do advocate for sensible gun laws that are enforced. Sadly, Congress can't fight its way out a wet paper bag when it comes to gun legislation.

[JPPaverage]

29. I know how you feel

We live right across the street from an elementary school and I distinctly remember thinking and asking myself what would I do if something like that happened over there?

[ailsagirl]

35. That's the bleak truth: NOTHING WAS DONE

Blows my mind

[Meowmee]

4. They

Only care about themselves. It has been clear for a long time.

[TNNurse]

17. It only matters to them if it happens to one of their own.

Ivanka just noticed viciousness.

[Meowmee]

45. Yep

Very true

[Baitball Blogger]

5. "An attack on one of us, is an attack on all of us."

Why didn't they say that after any of the many attacks on U.S. citizens across this country?

[haele]

9. Because they're different. They're "elite"

They forget they are the representatives of the people, and have made themselves into a tribe of "leaders" of people.
The average citizen doesn't' mean any more to them than the kid at the window of a drive-in - unless they can get something from them.
So, it's obviously far more important to them if one of them gets attacked (well, unless it's a Democrat, because they have it coming), than it is that a guy starts ranting on a trolley and stabs people who try to calm him down, or someone gets unhappy at work and decides to take family members or co-workers down with him or her.

very sad , in case anyone is offended.

I'm unhappy when anyone gets assaulted or murdered; be it a near-homeless kid wandering the streets late at night, an estranged girlfriend or unsuspecting co-worker, or a congressman out practicing for a charity softball game.

Haele

[iluvtennis]

15. +++++++++ AGREE. And they were crickets on Portland a few weeks ago, you know why...

...it was because the killer was attacking Muslims. Now that killer is attacking them, they suddenly care. That's SAD. Life is a life wheter Brown, black, white, Christian, Muslim, Atheist, gay, lesbian, etc, etc, etc.

[angrychair]

20. Worse than crickets

There were many republicans that openly mocked the women and the three heros that stood in harms way to protect them. Now there incident is the big crisis we should care about?!?
As I have already said, I feel for those injured and sincerely hope they recover but I know, as a liberal, that they do not feel the same way about me and have years of evidence to support it.

[kairos12]

32. All of us means Republicans.

[Raster]

6. The Republican Congressman that was shot this morning...

... is one of the NRA's top handmaidens in Congress and has a 100% A+ rating from the NRA.

I wonder if the NRA will be sending Mr. Congressman a "get well" bouquet... you know the one with the spent shell casings wired in to compliment the carnations and other floral accouterments?

The card should be understated, and tasteful:
"Sorry you got shot.
Best wishes,
Wayne and your friends at the NRA.

[JDC]

30. Rest assured they are well in their way to marketing this

Thx is a perfect opportunity for him to receive some healthy campaign donations from the NRA in exchange for some well scripted tough guy gun talk. He will be front and center on the idiot box asap.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Most had NRA

fund raisers with in days. You can not fix the Stupid.

[Maraya1969]

8. I want to hear the NRA get up and tell everyone that today's shooting means we need more guns

Let the GOP call for more guns now that they have been victimized.

I doubt it will happen.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. As always, they care only when it happens to them.

[BannonsLiver]

11. Where were they? Busy mocking Obama's tears

That's why the "be nice" calls here and elsewhere are fucking laughable.

[SammyWinstonJack]

47. +1000000!

[Hekate]

12. Moment of silence. Thoughts and prayers. But most of all, silence.

[elmac]

13. they were crying "false flag, false flag!"

and NBC seems to agree with them by interviewing the false flag pig himself.

[yuiyoshida]

14. K&R and Tweeted

n/t

[volstork]

16. They were the same place they were

in 1954 when hundreds protested the Arkansas Board of Education integration of the high schools.

in 1965 when peaceful marchers in Selma were met with clubs and attack dogs.

in 1982 when ronnie reagan turned a blind eye to the AIDS epidemic.

in 1995 when timothy mcveigh set off his bomb in Oklahoma City.

They were, and ARE, on the wrong side of history.

[Duppers]

31. Always.

Great post - thank you.

[Dawson Leery]

36. Certainly.

[zentrum]

18. Exactly.

[Bear Creek]

19. Someone else

They believe nothing applies to them. It is always someone else. Lets see what is the usual ones, God's fault, they deserved it, fake news didn't happen. Tired of them and the NRA,chicken coming home to roost works well, haven't they been pushing gun violence as the solution, well as long as it is not them.

[JenniferJuniper]

21. Trying to get more guns into the hands of mentally ill people.

It's hard to have much compassion for these people.

[mountain grammy]

22. Those men should remember the fear the felt..

Then try to imagine being six years old. Do something, you bastards.

[Stinky The Clown]

41. Thank you, grammy! That is beyond excellent.

[gollygee]

23. Coming up with conspiracy theories and pretending it didn't happen. N/t

[Ilsa]

25. They immediately began their planning their defense

of the nra before the bodies were even transported to the morgue. It was more important than anything else.

[juxtaposed]

26. it wasn't their time to be outraged. Guns were being attacked at the time.

[Duppers]

27. Yeah, they'll decide to ban

Dems owning weapons.

Bet that's crossed their minds.

[Hoyt]

28. Hiding from constituents and counting their NRA blood money.

[guillaumeb]

33. The NRA donates a lot of money to purchase Congress members.

Support for the NRA will continue as long as the money continues to flow.

[billh58]

34. We know where Scalise was:

"On April 25, 2013, Scalise made a floor speech where he used the Sandy Hook massacre of children to support the rights of gun owners. "I think they counted over 40 different laws that were broken by the Sandy Hook murderer," Scalise said. "Then somebody is going to tell you that one more law, which makes it harder for law-abiding citizens to get a gun, would have stopped him from doing that." The congressman doesn't mention that a law banning assault weapons would have actually slowed down Adam Lanza. And we're not even allowed to discuss banning handguns anymore, which would have done a great deal to stop the bloodshed."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=9204266

Have you ever seen such a sincere plea for sympathy... for the NRA?

[Dawson Leery]

37. The right's response to Sandy Hook cemented

my views and disdain for the US right.

[dflprincess]

38. At least the Congressman's family won't have to set up a Go Fund Me page to pay his medical bills.

I hope the same is true for the police officers injured today.

[WhiteTara]

39. GOP can only have inclinations that something is wrong

if it happens to them. All others don't enter their consciousness.

[nancy1942]

40. Little children were not important.

Expendable, you know. Anyone knows only right-wing Republican white people deserve to live in our God-fearing great country. The rest of us need to go back where we came from.

[Initech]

42. They laughed and cooked up conspiracy theories saying it didn't happen.

And that it was a way to enable the government to take your guns away. There's more to life than your precious killing machines, republicans.

[iluvtennis]

43. The 20 kids of Newtown....

Link to tweet

[Dawson Leery]

44. kick

[Cha]

49. Mahalo, iluvtennis

[Kentonio]

46. Sandy Hook was the real test of them as human beings

It was the nightmare scenario everyone prayed would never happen, and then it did and the response was.. nothing.

It was the day I realized serious gun control will never happen. If you can go through that and not see a need for change, then nothing will ever change your mind.

[Cha]

48. I hope so, too.. 2 tweets..

Link to tweet

Link to tweet