Rick Perry: Charleston Shooting An 'Accident' Due To Drug Use, Manipulated By Obama To Ban Guns

[spanone]

file this under 'you can't make this shit up'.

n an interview today with Steve Malzberg of Newsmax, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry described the mass shooting at an African American church in Charleston earlier this week as an “accident” that was possibly caused by the over-prescription of medication.

Perry and Malzberg kicked off the discussion of the shooting by attacking President Obama for mentioning the failure to pass gun reform. Perry, a GOP presidential candidate, said that the president is trying to “take the guns out of the hands of everyone in this country.”

“This is the MO of this administration, any time there is an accident like this — the president is clear, he doesn’t like for Americans to have guns and so he uses every opportunity, this being another one, to basically go parrot that message,” Perry said.

Instead of talking about guns, Perry said, we should be talking about prescription drugs: “Also, I think there is a real issue to be talked about. It seems to me, again without having all the details about this, that these individuals have been medicated and there may be a real issue in this country from the standpoint of these drugs and how they’re used.”

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-perry-charleston-shooting-accident-due-drug-use-manipulated-obama-ban-guns#sthash.B7rlSuZP.dpuf

(Update: A Perry campaign aide now says that the former governor misspoke in the interview when he used the word “accident.”)

[Thinkingabout]

1. Rick needs to go and find himself a new rock and hide under it until he

Can come up with something intelligent.

[spanone]

2. a lying piece ó shit

it's sad that truth has such little standing in politics

[3catwoman3]

3. He can hide under the rock...

...that marks the entrance to his ranch.

[Thinkingabout]

7. That was what I was thinking

[Iliyah]

4. There is something wrong with the mental aspect of majority

of the GOPers. Most Americans already know no matter what, they will blame Pres O.

[hedda_foil]

5. He evidently thinks of the KKK types as his natural base.

So as far as he's concerned it's probably"just politics."

[struggle4progress]

6. "He planned it for months, Your Honor. Next he took his gun to the Bible study and

sat there for an hour, wondering whether he should do it. And then suddenly, completely by accident, he shot and killed nine people!"

Somehow I don't foresee a bright career as a defense attorney in Rickie's future