(Video) Texas Lt Governor Dan Patrick made one thing clear on This Week today about gun violence

[Blue_Adept]

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HE and his kind are THE threat to MY children.

All the usual garbage in talking about Santa Fe in how the real problem is

you guessed it

Abortion.

That was his first thing in saying how we devalue life before going on about video games movies and the rest. Stephanopolous pushed back in saying other developed nations don't have these scale of issues but Patrick refuses to compare because there are too many variables.

IT'S THE FUCKING GUNS

I'm beyond glad one of my kids is graduating this week. I have three more years of worry for another. But this goes beyond schools because it's happening everywhere.

Fuck you, Patrick. YOU are the threat. YOU.

EDIT: Here's his opening response on This Week after Stephanopolous talked about the Santa Fe shooting.

Link to tweet

[Blue_Adept]

1. Nearly an hour later and I'm still seething about it

[Maraya1969]

2. All those other countries where abortion is legal and they don't have

mass shootings just make Patrick full of crap.

[Kurt V.]

7. those countries have video games and movies too. he is a bought and paid for fool.

[lark]

3. Exactly right, gun humper legislators are the real cause of this.

They refuse to consider even totally common sense remedies, instead pushing more and more gun ownership as the answer, when that is truly the cause. They want terrorists, assaulters, stalkers, people with mental issues, teachers, students, people under 18 to buy guns which will just cause more people to be shot, killed or badly injured. They want no laws about locks or security for guns because then it'd be safer and less guns being bought, that is the bottom line.

[Paladin]

4. Patrick is a brain-dead theocrat.

Even by Texas Republican standards, he's a shameless shit-for-brains. It comes from all the years he was an AM hate radio performer and executive, yet another Limbaugh wannabe. By the way: his real last name is "Goeb," but he changed it; probably thought it sounded too Jewish.

[calimary]

26. Interesting points.

They offer quite a bit of much-needed context. Another Limbaugh wannabe? Don’t we also have a so-called vice president* like that?

[Paladin]

29. Nobody since Goebbels has done more damage to public discourse than Limbaugh.

Danny (Goeb) Patrick was an eager student, but his hateful spewings in Texas never matched the Dark Master's. And now Patrick is in state government, issuing embarrassments on a daily basis. Lord help us all.

[calimary]

32. He's been a real-live weapon of mass destruction. Mental and character destruction, that is.

TRUTH destruction, in particular. He has been TREMENDOUSLY damaging, and for a nauseatingly long time.

[Ilsa]

5. As if everyone sits around talking about how great abortion is with their kids?

Is that how life is devalued? You can't talk about abortion in sex ed classes in Texas, last I heard, only celibacy.

Excuse me, after I finish this frappaccino, I have my quarterly abortion appointment.

[duforsure]

6. People can take no more

From politicians refusing to ban assault weapons , and in Nov. the GOP will regret what they've done, and are doing to this country. Especially against these Texas political NRA stooges for the NRA.

[jayddrew]

8. Really, Texas?

I guess Texas had to one up us folks here in Louisiana. We put Bobby Jindal in office and we are still trying to crawl out from under his economic platform. So Texas elects an ex-radio talking head as Lt. gov. who can go on TV and talk about everything from abortion to video games to twitter/facebook as causes for mass shootings, everything but guns.
Is there any way possible Texas will turn blue? How many mass shootings of kids will it take?

[WinstonSmith4740]

14. Welcome to DU!

I think you'll enjoy it...lots of smart people and good dialog!

[calimary]

25. No kidding.

I saw he was “coming up on CNN” after a commercial break, and I raced to change the channel. Those would be minutes of my life otherwise lost forever and impossible to get back, if I wasted a single one of them listening to him

[Honeycombe8]

9. "too many variables" That's codespeak for "the minority issue."

Charlton Heston said this aloud during an interview once before walking out: Other countries don't have this problem because other countries don't have the high minority population we do.

That's the codespeak to each other that they rarely voice in public. "Variables," I'm sure, means that.

[DallasNE]

10. Is This The Same Guy

That said rocks and dirt falling into the ocean is what is causing the sea level to rise? Same mindset.

[Chipper Chat]

11. please Texas PLEASE. .....

Turn Blue this fall. Por favor.

[smirkymonkey]

12. Texas has more than it's fair share of brain-dead legislators.

Religion and lack of education are the reason morons like this keep getting elected.

[USALiberal]

13. He used a shotgun, those will and can never be banned. This is impossible to stop......

unless you figure out how to stop people from wanting to kill other people.

[Blue_Adept]

15. Who said anything about banning?

Hell, the main thrust here is that the parents were irresponsible and there need to be better laws dealing with storage and safety in the home with weapons.

But even something like that is resisted like we're trying to ban all weapons and take them away.

[USALiberal]

27. So your law will limit access to shotguns to what age group? 16 year olds hunt legally daily. nt

[Blue_Adept]

30. Keep putting words in my mouth. I didn't talk about any law in particular in m OP.

[USALiberal]

31. Then WTF does "IT'S THE FUCKING GUNS" mean???????????????????????????????? nt

[Blue_Adept]

33. IT means the problem isn't fucking abortions or video games or movies.

Jesus wept, do we need to handhold you through every conversation?

[USALiberal]

34. In this case it was a mentally ill 17 year old. Fix that problem! nt

[Blue_Adept]

35. Well bless your heart.

[USALiberal]

36. Your solution to this is????

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-toronto-van-hits-pedestrians-20180423-story.html

[DemoHack]

16. Also, "school entrances."

We must protect our children from "school entrances."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/05/19/us/texas-school-shooting-exits-trnd/index.html

[George II]

17. I didn't see it (glad I didn't) but how did he connect abortion to schools shootings?

That's insane!!

[Blue_Adept]

18. Here's the video via twitter

Link to tweet

[Blue_Adept]

19. First post updated with clip

[kairos12]

20. I erupted listening to this vile piece of garbage.

He should have been wearing an NRA hat.

[Kyblue1]

21. Didn't the illegal and immoral war in Iraq devalue life?

4000 American lives, and untold numbers of Iraqi children who were aborted by our bombs.

[Initech]

22. George Carlin said it best:

"When you're pre born you're fine, when you're pre school you're fucked!"

[struggle4progress]

23. Well, if he doesn't care about kids being shot, maybe he cares about pregnant women getting shot:

30 Jan KS
Pregnant Woman Fatally Shot

15 Apr WI
Pregnant woman found murdered

17 Apr AZ
Child begged for life after pregnant mom shot

19 Apr IN
Girl, 3, accidentally shot pregnant mother

22 Apr PA
Woman shot in Homewood gives birth

24 Apr OH
Second Springfield woman to die after being shot while pregnant

26 Apr TN
Pregnant woman shot 3 times

1 May MD
Pregnant Woman Dies After Being Shot

10 May VA
Pregnant woman dies after being shot while driving

17 May LA
Shooting near Istrouma High injured pregnant woman

19 May TX
Pregnant woman in the hospital after being shot

[gratuitous]

24. Did he mention President Trump?

Because rumor has it that Trump's paid for one or two abortions in his time:

https://crooksandliars.com/2018/05/fox-segment-goes-rails-when-guest-suggests

[Westcoast52]

28. Republican Moral Blindness Is Killing Us.

When Hurricane Katrina cost hundreds of poor black people their lives, some preachers said God was punishing us for allowing gays to marry/run free. There is always this sanctimonious self-righteous certainty in Republican Middle-Americans where somehow it's the victim's fault and it's their Christian duty to condemn them and point out their sins. It never occurs to them to help or do the right thing. Added to this is a cretinous inability to see cause-and-effect or reason from a fact. These people's ancestors opposed the invention of fire because it would offend the gods. They believe there is such a thing as 'legitimate rape'. They see every event as 'signs' of God's will or wrath. They excuse their own folksy barbarism as good old American values. But worst of all, they are welded to the gun as the end-all and be-all for what America is and should be about. It is their true God and ultimate symbol of their cornbread superiority over non-whites. Smith & Wesson is the Way and the Truth and the Life. Since I have to share the planet with them, I have to pray for them and do my best to live peaceably with them. But sacrificing our children on the altar on their gun-god and their delusions is not in the script.

[spanone]

37. and he wants to arm the teachers...fuck these people. they. do. not. wish. to. fix. it.

[mercuryblues]

38. You know what I have notived about the repligun

response to the mass shootings recently? They are no longer blaming the massacres on 1 thing. It used to be just about music, then it moved on to movies, then they moved on to violent video games, then it moved on to....

Now they are throwing it all out there at the same time. I guess they believe 10 weak excuses equals a strong excuse when they are all lumped together. Well, when they aren't blaming the doors.