Nebraska Democratic Party official won't resign after calling reactions to shooting at GOP baseball

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Joe Duggan

LINCOLN — A Nebraska Democratic Party official has refused calls to resign her volunteer position after calling reactions to this week’s shooting of a high-ranking Republican member of Congress “so funny” on social media.

Chelsey Gentry-Tipton of Omaha said in statement that she will not resign as chairwoman of the party’s Black Caucus, saying her post was taken out of context by party officials.

The Nebraska party’s leadership asked Gentry-Tipton to step down Wednesday, several hours after she wrote, in a Facebook thread about the shooting in Washington, D.C., “Watching the congressman crying on live tv abt the trauma they experienced. Y is this so funny tho?”

Later, in the same thread, she stated, “The very people that push pro NRA legislation in efforts to pad their pockets with complete disregard for human life. Yeah, having a hard time feeling bad for them.”

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[uppityperson]

1. Good, she shouldn't

[msongs]

2. poor traumatized repubs cry when its one of their own. how many others were gun murdered that day?

and did any repub cry for THEM or have a live on TV bullcrap announcement from whats his name?

[yuiyoshida]

3. good for her...

Sticking to her "guns"...

[dalton99a]

4. Resist.

[fountainofyouth]

5. I find this reaction and the ones in this thread disappointing

You can be frustrated all you want about Republican gun policy, but there's nothing amusing -- even darkly amusing -- about citizens shooting elected officials.

[joeybee12]

6. I agree. Nt

[fountainofyouth]

12. Sorry, how long must I have been a member to express an opinion here?

[Maraya1969]

13. You are free to express any opinion you want. When you sound like someone who

bows at the feet of "officials" you just sound really weird.

Maybe if you had included all people and not just authority figures you wouldn't be sticking out like a purple thumb.

[fountainofyouth]

16. "All Shootings Matter"?

The woman the original post was about laughed at a shooting specifically because she found it funny that pro-gun politicians were shot.

My mistake. I will assiduously avoid addressing the context of the OP in my future comments.

[sandensea]

30. What she should have called it (and probably meant to) is ironic

I'd go so far so to call their laments pretty pathetic - but of course 'ironic' would have been the more judicious term, given that she's in politics.

[tavernier]

17. Agree.

Despite the fact they are very wrong on this side of the issue, everyone has the right to be emotional for a friend who has been gravely injured.

[aeromanKC]

26. It's called Karma

I also have NO F'n sympathy for anyone who has a 100% A rating from the NRA. You made your bed, now sleep in it. No sympathy here as my Momma used to say.

[LuvLoogie]

34. funny, strange, ironic--not funny comical. There's a difference.

[War Is A Racket]

7. Republicans Were Warned About Guns and Unhinged People

They ignored it and it's obvious dereliction of duty. Playing politics once again.

[Judi Lynn]

8. When Gabby was nearly murdered, but for a miracle, they started gibbering in fear

that Democrats would be coming to grab their phallic symbols, trying to steel themselves, brace their portly legs, hold in their voluminous beer bellies, and prepare for World War III, so sure it would have to be "out of my cold, dead hands."

The fact they are howling like banshees, trying to convince themselves that the well balanced part of the population is going to knock them off, for sure, now that someone who doesn't like Republicans finally ran amuck and dinged one, along with his defenders. They just don't have the ability to remember all the long, long decades the world has watched these right-wing ignorant, spoiled assholes who never learned to control themselves, or even even wanted to be decent like human beings, beating, insulting, lynching, terrorizing, torturing, murdering, letting their vile rage spill in all its putrid excess all over our world, our lives, destroying EVERYTHING we honor, respect, and love.

Idiots. Fools. Dirtbags.

[LuvLoogie]

35. Aye.

[dalton99a]

38. Bingo.

[Maraya1969]

9. GOOD! Stay strong!

[sarisataka]

11. Laughing at shooting victims...

classy

[dflprincess]

14. She wasn't laughing at the victims

she was being snide about the Republicans' reactions to the shooting. And who could blame her?

The people who want a gun in every purse and pocket cried harder over this than they did Sandy Hook.

[sarisataka]

15. Yes she was...

"Watching the congressman crying on live tv abt the trauma they experienced."

those who experienced the trauma are victims whether or not they received injuries.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

18. They brought it upon themselves...

... the results of, "their", steadfast refusal to gun reform for decades. Oh, and they just passed law saying mentally ill folks can buy guns, too...

[sarisataka]

22. "They brought it upon themselves..."

say that out loud and see how it sounds

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

32. That is just like shaking your head...

... when you can't say, "NO", to an offer or deal. It still means the same thing. Oh, the irony!

[dflprincess]

19. I'll save my concern for the victims of bad Republican policies

Perhaps if they ever showed any empathy for people they want to take healthcare from I could find some for them.

[billh58]

23. K & R!

Well said.

[sarisataka]

24. Being victims of this attack

in no way mitigates the damage of their policies, but I refuse to take an iota of pleasure in it.

Wrong is wrong, whether it is mocking the tears of President Obama or mocking the tears of victims now.

[denvine]

20. I'm not trying to belittle their trauma

but the ambivalence these same congressmen have had over the 90 lives a day we lose to gun violence is the point she is trying to make. As what seem to be typical of Republicans is that they cannot empathize or understand the struggle until it affects them personally. That same day, 3 people were killed at the UPS office in San Francisco, just another normal day that would and did get little mention. These Republicans have been pushing for everyone to have a gun, not only a gun but a killing machine. The irony writes itself. Don't get me wrong, all violence is awful but hopefully there is a silver lining on this one.

[bluecollar2]

21. Good

Don't back down.

[Sunlei]

25. If anyone wants to smack talk on social media & mock people who have gone through a horrific

experience- don't "volunteer" to be an OFFICIAL in the Democratic Party, please.

[All-In]

29. Use their hypocrisY as a sledgehammer

To bash them with.

God knows they deserve it.

[Sunlei]

31. no, the last thing Americas government needs are more chat-room, social media fools like t(R)ump.

perhaps the person will think how cruel that comment was, present apologies and back away from the face book waste of time.

[All-In]

27. Good for her

[luvMIdog]

28. when democrats begin to emulate the right in callousness and become as coldblooded as the right I

think I'll opt out of politics all together and just stop voting. I do not want to become just as nasty as the right. This sort of ugliness is really a huge fucking turn off to me. It's vile. Yuck. I think I've had enough politics this week.

[AlexSFCA]

33. Karma

democrats should stop apologizing for anything. Do I feel sorry for the guy who got shot? not for a nanosecond. There are innocent and much more worthwile people dying everyday from shootings. That guy was not innocent. Let NRA pray for him so we don't have to. It's a matter of priorities. Shit happens.

[no_hypocrisy]

36. She was being ironic.

[DeminPennswoods]

37. "Funny" can also mean "ironic"

The context seems to suggest that she used "funny" in the slang sense meaning "ironic", not "funny" in the usual meaning of "humorous".

[Deuce]

39. I agree...

[Paladin]

40. Good for her. Her comments about the repubs are spot-on. (nt)

[Maxheader]

41. I truly hate

to minimize someone else pain. But then I remember
how little they care about the rest of us.

[mazzarro]

42. +1000%