Simply incredible!
Conservatives React to the Newtown Shooting
| Fri Dec. 14, 2012 1:55 PM PST
As news broke of the Newtown school shooting, horror and grief transcended party lines. But for some conservatives, the shooting—and the ensuing calls for reassessing gun policies—also presented a political challenge. Some notable tweets:
.@hyperboledetect Gun Control is not aimed at criminals. It is aimed at the law-abiding only. The liberal dream is us disarmed & docile.
Liberals believe the world should be free of evil, and that step one is preventing good people from resisting it. #caring
Let's regulate knives too. You can't have steak knives in your kitchen anymore because a crazy person may stab someone with it.
Thanks to Obama, most schools can no longer afford appropriate security.
Despite heavy gun laws, newly-instituted security procedures, left blames the weapons rather than the monster who killed children.
Some suggested that the fix is not fewer guns, but more:
Ann Coulter:
Only one policy has ever been shown to deter mass murder: concealed-carry laws. - bit.ly/VGDNBo
I'M ON HANNITY RADIO RIGHT NOW! more guns, less mass shootings ...
14 Dec 12@ChrisLoesch So the solution is to do away w gun free zones & have them everywhere? That would have stopped guy that shot school up?
Somebody else shooting that guy would have stopped him. Yes. Dead in his tracks before the tragedy grew larger. @PatchesMC
In just the past four years, the NRA has helped pass weaker gun restrictions in 37 states, making the weapons easier to own, carry and conceal. At the same time, the number of mass shootings has increased in America.*
Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential candidate, told Fox News the shooting happened because "we removed God from our schools. (h/t ThinkProgress)
HUCKABEE: Ultimately, you can take away every gun in America and somebody will use a gun. When somebody has an intent to do incredible damage, they’re going to find a way to do it… People will want to pass new laws, but unless you change people’s hearts, they’re our transition to the pastor side. This is a heard issue, it’s not something, laws don’t change this kind of thing.Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association took a similar tack on his radio show today, claiming that God has abandoned our schools because prayer is no longer allowed.
CAVUTO: How could God let this happen?
HUCKABEE: Well, you know, it’s an interesting thing. When we ask why there is violence in our schools, but we’ve systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools have become a place for carnage because we’ve made it a place where we don’t want to talk about eternity, life, responsibility, accountability? That we’re not just going to have to be accountable to the police, if they catch us. But one day, we will stand in judgment before God. If we don’t believe that, we don’t fear that.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/12/conservatives-newtown-shooting-twitter
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