Mike Huckabee: More Guns in Church Could’ve Stopped Charleston Shooting

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: Mediaite



As a presidential candidate like Mike Huckabee should probably know by now, if you start a sentence with “it sounds crass, but,” you probably shouldn’t finish that sentence.

During an online interview with Fox News’ Todd Starnes on Friday, Huckabee said of the shooting at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, “It sounds crass, but frankly the best way to stop a bad person with a gun is to have a good person with a weapon that is equal or superior to the one that he’s using.”

Huckabee was reacting to President Barack Obama’s decision to bring up the issue of gun control during his remarks on the shooting yesterday, a move Starnes called “pretty despicable.”

The candidate agreed, saying it was “disappointing” to hear Obama “grandstand” about gun control in what he described as minutes or possibly hours after the news first broke (it was approximately 14 hours later, for the record).

Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/online/mike-huckabee-more-guns-in-church-couldve-stopped-charleston-shooting/

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Not to be left out of the string of GOP candidates saying stupid shit in response to the SC shooting, the Huckster takes a break from his usual activities of hanging with pedophiles and peddling miracle diabetes cures to weigh in with his own brand of stupid.

In his mind, it's the victims' fault for not going to their prayer circle armed to the teeth.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. And Huck thinks he's a Christian. Guess he doesn't know about 'blessed are the meek'. Or the

'Prince of Peace'.

[Thinkingabout]

29. This is sickening that a proclaimed minister would sink so low as to think Christians should be

needing to carry guns into a house of worship. The one who did not need a gun was Roof. Needing guns to stop bad guys is backwards, stop the bad guys from having guns.

[still_one]

2. Isn't it interesting how these pseudo Christian republicans really love their guns. I think they

Love their guns more than they love their Jesus

[SCVDem]

3. Just because you have the right to do something...

doesn't mean you will do it! Does this dip-shit truly, swear to God on a 3 foot stack, believe ANY of the Bible study group would be armed even if it were legal?

They would rather die than violate one of God's commandments. And they did.

You would think old Rev Hucky would know that!

[SmittynMo]

4. Look long and hard at the original post photo op.

That's what a delusional lunatic looks like.

[awoke_in_2003]

5. Rec for exposure...

I am getting so tired of this country.

[RKP5637]

27. The US often looks like a bunch of damn fools with bozos like Mike Huckabee

and his ridiculous rhetoric.

[marble falls]

6. I've quit going to my church after I found out the council authorized two members to be strapped....

in church. There's been a lot of shootings in churches of members by members, not so many by outsiders. Last week a concealed carry member of a church managed to wound four people accidentally during a service.

[BeyondGeography]

7. Of all the dumbass lines of Gunmerican "reasoning"

this continues to be the dumbest.

[mindem]

8. He complains about Obama grandstanding

while he grandstands for the continued repuke culture of death. After all, innocent people getting shot to death is just collateral damage when it comes to scoring political points and chasing gun humper votes. It's people like huckleberry dipshit here who represent everything that is wrong with this country.

[onehandle]

9. Panderfuck Douchington....

...would be his Hobbit name.

[turbinetree]

10. This man reminds me of someone that supports murder's incorporated-

Then says----------quote:

“It sounds crass, but frankly the best way to stop a bad person with a gun is to have a good person with a weapon that is equal or superior to the one that he’s using.”

And that folks-------------if you think outside the box------------- not one fore thought of the consequence-------just have a gun and it will solve the problem------------that's why 88 human beings are killed with a gun in this country everyday, everyday.

[Moral Compass]

11. Do they even think before they speak?

These are my people. My white, white people.

I wish that I could say that the first time I heard this meme was from Charles Cotton, NRA board member. Or that the 2nd time I heard it was from Mike Huckabee.

But alas I'd heard this from a co-worker already. When I explained to him that no one went into churches armed throughout most of Christian history he looked confused and asked, "Who passed that law?" I explained that it really wasn't a law but a custom--a tradition that was even honored for the most part in the Middle Ages.

He seemed shocked and confused--muttering that many people go into church with concealed weapons. As if this somehow made it okay. I grew up Catholic. Even now, after having lost my faith, the idea of someone entering a church with a weapon of any kind is deeply shocking. But this is Texas. It was only a few months ago that some old redneck that couldn't bear to leave his gun at home dropped it in church and it went off. Fortunately, the bullet didn't strike anyone.

I wasn't shocked by my co-worker. I wasn't shocked by Charles Cotton. I wasn't shocked by Mike Huckabee.

This is our world now. We have a certain minority that believes that if we were all armed all the time that there would be no more mass shootings.

I doubt they've really thought about what our world would look like if we all carried all the time.

But it has become the new norm to blame the victims of these shootings for not having put themselves in the position to return fire.

In March of 2000 there was a fictional interview between Duke (a fictional character in Doonesbury based loosely on Hunter Thompson) and Larry King. It went like this:

DUKE: That's exactly right. Thank you, Larry, for saying that so well. KING: That's a major story. What about guns? A lot of talk about gun policy in America. It's the current rage. Clinton is even in on the dispute with the head of the NRA. Where do you stand?
DUKE: Yes, you know, I'm not -- I'm not going to be popular right now except with the NRA. Hold on a second. Has that check cleared? It has? OK, let me tell you. I'm going to take a strong stand here. I think mandatory gun ownership, simple safety issue here. We require seat belts. Why not side arms?
I believe every American should be...
KING: Everybody should have a gun?
DUKE: Yes. We should -- every American should be in a position to return fire, you know, in their day-to-day life. That's -- and according to the NRA mailing, if you know someone's armed, it prevents a lot of misunderstandings. At least they get resolved very quickly. A brief exchange and you're on your way to your next class or whatever. That's my personal belief, as long as that check clears. (I got this off an archived CNN site)

Back then, I'm sure everyone on the right and left thought it was crazy. Now, at least in some circles, this is considered sound reasoning.

So very sad. So, so sad.

[EndElectoral]

12. Huckabee is right about one thing. It does sound crass...because frankly it is.

We only know what happened. If others were carrying concealed weapons in that church it's possible even more people may have been killed.

This insanity has got to stop. There are more incidents like this in our supposedly civilized society than in most countries in the world.

To them it seems a concealed weapon should be taken everywhere. Aboard a plane, to the grocery store, to daycare, the Super Bowl, church...

The logic is just inane.

[Kablooie]

13. Unfortunately this statement will probably increase his vote count.

This is the kind of thing Republican voters love to hear.
Ignorant macho violence talk impresses them.
The more violent the better.
As long as the violence doesn't intrude on their personal lives they are all for it.

[tclambert]

14. . . . or maybe one less gun.

[restorefreedom]

15. joy reid said it best

a gunfight in a church is obscene.

i would extrapolate that to anywhere people are going about their lives-having shootouts in malls, grocery stores, restaurants, etc is obscene.

huckabee and his ilk don't present to me as being real christians.

the people of charleston seem to represent authentic christian teaching in their response to this. i don't know what huckabee is.

[murielm99]

21. But just imagine if the gunfight had been

in a BLACK church. Even if this racist kid had started it, who would get the blame? Who would be labeled as thugs?

Do any of these passengers in the Republican clown car ever stop with the racism and the stupidity? My head hurts from it.

[durablend]

23. Oh I've already thought that

They'd be saying "thank god someone stopped this guy"

While the police are arresting said black hero gunman "because he could be a threat too"

[restorefreedom]

38. they would probably be saying it was a gang dispute n/t

[rhett o rick]

16. This has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. Let's say that there were 5 or 6

well armed person in that church and this terrorists starts shooting. First of all he could easily kill 6 or 8 people before any one could react with their firearm. Then imagine bullets from 5 or 6 different persons from different angles. The death toll would have been higher.

[durablend]

24. Well it was a "black church"

So, "oh well...these things happen" (in the words of said Republicans)

[Skittles]

35. gun humpers are not known for their intellect

[quadrature]

42. the gunman reloaded five times ...

to kill 8 or 9 people.

if you were there and had a choice, what would you do?
shoot back or not?

[rhett o rick]

43. Not sure what your point is, but my point is that if there were 5 or 6 armed people

in the church, that the death total might have been higher. Thinking that armed people can and will shoot accurately under stress is a fantasy. The belief that if only you were there with a big gun in your pants you could have saved the day.

[quadrature]

44. one shot to his legs, he falls down .......

one shot hits an arm, he cant reload,
(or at least reloading will be very slow)

my point is that if three people had guns,
at least one would have an easy shot.

[rhett o rick]

45. IMO that's pure fantasy. If there were 3 guns how many shots would

they fire? I think it would be very likely that they would hit innocent people in the crossfire. Less guns and not more guns is the answer.

[cosmicone]

17. I'd have thought this was from the Onion

but nothing is impossible in Repukeland.

These are great times for late night comedians and I bet Jay Leno, David Letterman and Jon Stewart are regretting their decision to retire.

[davidthegnome]

18. Armed on holy ground?

Seems that there's something very wrong with that idea. I don't really believe one way or another, I don't follow any particular religion... but those that do, tend to find their places of worship sacred, at least, to them. The idea that people should be armed in a temple, church, mosque, or place of spirituality or religion is... well, frankly, I find it despicable.

Thou Shalt Not Kill.

What part of that line suggest that "Christians" should be carrying guns in church? What about turning the other cheek, not judging, what about mercy and love and all that stuff Jesus talked about? I am a recovering Catholic, but even now, I shudder at the idea of someone bringing a gun into a church. Where people bring their infants for baptism, where people go for funerals, for weddings, where they go to be closer to their God.

Weapons do not belong in churches. I don't care if it's a bad guy with a gun or a good guy with a gun, they need to leave their damned guns at home. Do we have to start hiring security guards and getting metal detectors for churches now? For fucking churches?

These kinds of crimes... I don't know how you find justice for them. Death is too quick a punishment - and frankly, letting the criminal off too easy.

If there is a God, I really wish it would hit Huckabee in the ass with a lightning bolt when he says shit like this. If there is a God, I wish it would stop these assholes from shooting people in church. I wish a lot more things of this being, which, when it comes down to it, is why I can't really believe anymore.

Still... I can't help but hope that, if there is such a being as God, it has a special place in hell reserved for the likes of Huckabee.

[davidpdx]

19. Gomer Pyle and his assbackwards reasoning

Every time he opens his mouth it does show that God has a sense of humor (even if you don't believe in such a thing).

[tabasco]

37. This depraved person is sickening, not humorous

Huckabee's existence is evidence there is no higher power.

[CBHagman]

20. Oh, I wish they would stop this.

And the only thing that's despicable is rushing to criticize the president when Charleston is grieving.

[Cryptoad]

22. The Local Media

already have the white Mega Churches here bragging about all there armed guards, security cameras and password access coded doors. Sounds like they don't rea;;y have much faith in Jesus as their Savior and Protector.

[roamer65]

25. Anyone encouraging turning churches into gunfights is a degenerate. N/t

[TimeToEvolve]

26. can DU add a new smilie shaped like a dog turd?

to fling at these rethuglican gun-humpers?

[RKP5637]

28. He's a damn fool again, as usual! n/t

[mercuryblues]

30. He does like

To worship guns.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/03/31/154984/mike-huckabee-david-barton/

HUCKABEE: I don’t know anyone in America who is a more effective communicator [than David Barton.] I just wish that every single young person in America would be able to be under his tutelage and understand something about who we really are as a nation. I almost wish that there would be something like a simultaneous telecast and all Americans would be forced, forced — at gun point no less — to listen to every David Barton message. And I think our country would be better for it. I wish it’d happen.

[truthisfreedom]

31. Just like more guns could stop the NRA.

Which would be a good thing.

[betterdemsonly]

32. If caucus states like Iowa and Nevada would switch to primaries it would be over for this

type of republican. Harry Reid did our democracy a terrible disservice by preserving caucuses in Nevada.

[Vinca]

33. Old Mike stepped in it this time.

More guns in the church would have meant more armed black men and we know that's not what the GOP/NRA wants to happen.

[Skittles]

34. gun humper logic

everyone needs to be armed and paranoid - it's the NRA wet dream

[bvf]

40. NRA's business model. Pure evil. n/t.

[world wide wally]

36. Huckabee's God is the NRA and his Lord and Savior is Wayne LaPierre

He honestly believes that if he has the NRA behind him, he is a shoe-in for the nomination

[Mz Pip]

39. What a sad vision of America he has.

Yes, let us all be armed to the teeth so we can feel safe going to the mall or to a place of worship. If this is his idea of freedom he can shove it up his ass.

[truthisfreedom]

46. Mike, you've just volunteered to stand guard at that church.

Forever.

[TexasBushwhacker]

47. Did Huck say this when George Tiller was murdered

in church? Nope, I didn't think so.