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Bobby Jindal, shameful hypocrite: Only answers for gun violence are hugs, shrugs and prayersEven now that a Lafayette movie theater is a mass shooting site, the GOP governor won't talk seriously about guns
ROBERT MANN
This story was first published on NOLA.com
In the days after the deadly June shooting spree in Charleston, S.C., in which nine members of that citys Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church died, Gov. Bobby Jindal attacked President Barack Obamas calls for stricter gun control laws as completely shameful.
Instead of doing something about the proliferation of guns and gun violence, Jindal offered only prayer and hugs. Anything else, he suggested, was inappropriate and overtly political. Now is the time for prayer, now is the time for healing. As far as the political spectrum, this isnt the time, Jindal told reporters after a speech in Iowa, where he had begun his remarks by praying for the victims and their families.
I think it was completely shameful, Jindal said of Obamas call for a national discussion about gun control. Within 24 hours weve got the president trying to score cheap political points.
Now that people have died in a mass shooting in his state three dead and six injured at a movie theater in Lafayette on Thursday (July 23) it was, again, not the time to talk about the problem of gun violence. On Thursday night, Jindal, who happened to be in Baton Rouge on a rare visit to Louisiana, rushed to Lafayette to offer prayers and hugs.
When it comes to doing something about the gun violence that afflicts Louisiana, Jindal also offers shrugs. In Jindals world, its never the right time to debate gun violence or talk about how government should address the problem. And with a mass shooting almost every week, it will never be time in Jindals estimation to talk about it. Only hugs and shrugs.
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Bobby Jindal, shameful hypocrite: Only answers for gun violence are hugs, shrugs and prayers (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jul 2015
OP
Jindal only wants hugs and prayers from GOP to think he is a wonderful person who loves guns, forced
Thinkingabout
Jul 2015
#5
Initech
(100,104 posts)1. It's never the right time to talk about guns. If not now, when??
How many more shootings is it going to take?
malaise
(269,175 posts)2. Yep - all prayers while the NRA and it's hack prey
on the lliving.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)3. He's praying for dirty cash and gun nut support.
Hardly Christian.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)4. What a vile POS
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)5. Jindal only wants hugs and prayers from GOP to think he is a wonderful person who loves guns, forced
birth, and trying to remove pensions from state workers.