There’s a new contender for most absurd GOP scapegoat for gun violence. Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) was asked during an interview with Missouri radio station The Eagle 93.9 on Wednesday whether there was any appetite among Republicans in Congress to pursue changes to gun laws. It came in the wake of a gunman’s massacre of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. Long, who is running for the U. S. Senate, said guns aren’t the issue. He criticized proponents of gun control for “trying to blame an inanimate object for all of these tragedies.”
He said there are a few solutions but that the problem can be traced back to when abortion became legal nationwide.
“When I was growing up in Springfield, you had one or two murders a year,” he said. “Now we have two, three, four a week in Springfield, Missouri. “So something has happened to our society. I go back to abortion, when we decided it was OK to murder kids in their mothers’ wombs. Life has no value to a lot of these folks.” The data doesn’t support that claim. The Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973 established abortion rights in the U. S.
In 1970, 499 murders were reported in Missouri. in 1975, the figure was 505. And in 2019, 568 murders were reported in the state.
Did you know that doctors who provide abortions are the cause of all these mass shootings?
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The Far-Right Radical thinks it's fine to blame the Democrats for the abortions and mass shootings it makes no sense also the police who delayed acting on things that day were also Far-Right Radicals and their all a bunch of pussies.
i think it's pretty clear at this point that republicans live in a made up reality by now. they do not care about truth or being good leaders, they care about making those who don't agree with them suffer.
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