Jeb! Argues Against Gun Control After Oregon Massacre: 'Stuff Happens' (Video)

[DesertRat]

What a heartless bastard! #Stuffhappens and another Bush in the White House will never happen.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush reportedly told a South Carolina crowd on Friday that gun control is not the answer to reducing gun deaths in the U.S. because "stuff happens."

"I had this challenge as governor. Look, stuff happens, there's always a crisis. And the impulse is always to do something and it's necessarily the right thing to do," Bush said, in response to a question about gun control.

The remark, first reported by The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza, came amid renewed calls for greater restrictions on guns in the wake of a massacre at an Oregon community college that left 10 dead, including the gunman.

Bush doubled down on the remark after the event. In video posted online, Lizza asks the presidential candidate is the phrasing was a mistake.

"No, it wasn't a mistake, I said exactly what I said. Explain to me what I said wrong," a visibly frustrated Bush responded. "Things happen all the time. Things. Is that better?"

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeb-bush-stuff-happens-oregon-shooting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2&v=-mWgPmgdk6Y

[tanyev]

1. Easy to say when it's not your loved ones getting shot at.

And you have very little capacity for empathy.

[DesertRat]

2. Just like when his mother called the Katrina evacuees "better off"

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

[hifiguy]

3. He's dumber than Chimpy

and the sack of hammers is laughing heartily.

[DesertRat]

4. And we were told that Jeb was the smart one

[hifiguy]

5. Ol' Babs must have drank like a fish

when she was pregnant with those imbecile sons of hers.

Something has to explain it. GHWB was and is a sneaky, crooked, lying, duplicitous, greedy piece of shit but he was never stupid.

[madinmaryland]

6. Not surprising. Know your BFEE...

He is a descendant of a notorious gun merchant. Samuel Prescott Bush.

[joeybee12]

7. Juxtapose that against footage of gun violence and people running and dying...

And a tv ad that gives the Dem nominee victory in a landslide...assuming Jebbie gets that far, which I'm starting to think he won't.

[DesertRat]

8. I think this is his 47% moment

He even tried to walk it back by saying "things happen", "things...is that better?"

[joeybee12]

11. Yup, he's clueless and this shows it...nt

[sadoldgirl]

9. I bet he learned this answer from Rummy. n/t

[DesertRat]

10. Oh, definitely a page from the Rummy playbook. n/t