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Tuesday, February 27th, 2018

Oklahoma congressman who owns rifle factory blames videogames and lack of Jesus in schools for Florida massacre

Author:     MARTIN CIZMAR
Source:     Raw Story
Publication Date:     25 FEB 2018 AT 18:09 ET
 Link: Oklahoma congressman who owns rifle factory blames videogames and lack of Jesus in schools for Florida massacre
Stephan:   The swirling cesspit that is the modern Republican Party has convinced me of one thing: based on the data there is no limit to hypocrisy amongst these men and women. Here's yet another example. Thanks people of Oklahoma you are so discerning in your choice of representatives. By discerning I mean from a large population of Republican scumbags, you pick only the most grotesque scumbags. And they prove it by demonstrating in their fracking votes, christofascism, and a host of other issues, say guns for instance, their utter contempt for you.

Republican Representative Markwayne Mullin

Oklahoma Republicans are ready to solve the school shootings—with Jesus and by eliminating violent video games.

“The first thing everybody wants to talk about is gun control,” said Rep. Markwayne Mullin.

Instead, Mullin said it was important to look at “the whole situation.”

Mullin—the owner of a successful plumbing business, who did not serve in the armed forces or in law enforcement—approaches the problem of school shootings “based experiences I’ve had in my life.”

After the shooting, Mullin had an epiphany upon discovering that his two teenage boys played the first-person shooting game Call of Duty, which is set in World War II.

“I walked upstairs not too long ago. My two boys were playing Call of Duty with my brother-in-law and I looked at it for about three minutes and my palms were sweaty… the graphics are so real that that can’t be good. I made them turn it off and they’ve never gotten to play it since,” said Mullin in a Facebook video made after the Parkland shooting.

“Hollywood elites they always want to go on […]

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1 Comment

  1. Will on Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 5:34 am

    What is it with these gun addicted, flag waving, military loving americans? I served in the USAF for 4 years back in the early 70s and I am the least patriotic American I know. Cynical much? I can hardly keep up. How will this country hold together? At this time the economy is doing fairly well, many have jobs and many are watching their investments grow. But what happens when the economy turns down? When the trump believers start to suffer another trump bankruptcy how will they act and who will they blame?