Santorum: Instead of calling for gun laws, kids should take CPR classes

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Source: CNN

CNN commentator and former Pennsylvania GOP Sen. Rick Santorum on Sunday suggested students protesting for gun control legislation would be better served by taking CPR classes and preparing for active shooter scenarios.

"How about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations that when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that," Santorum said on CNN's "State of the Union."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/25/politics/rick-santorum-guns-cnntv/index.html

[RKP5637]

1. What an asshole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[Metro135]

3. I think you're being too kind to ex-sen Fecal Matter and Lube Mixture

[Raster]

14. Santorum* is qualified to teach a Master Class in ASSHOLISM...

... as he is one of the most preeminent experts in this field.

[olegramps]

61. The important aspect is that he THEIR ASSHOLE. Great spokenman for the rotten Repukians.

Can you imagine how the kids will view this. Keep talking; you are our best weapon.

[BlueIdaho]

2. Frothy Strikes Again! nt.

[Moostache]

15. With apologies to Paul Simon..."Still Frothy After All These Years"... (n/t)

[njhoneybadger]

57. LOL I just explained to my wife what santorum is

[Ohiogal]

4. This cretin has always been an asshole since day one

I remember he used to be obsessed with women's lady parts. I don't know how he ever got elected.

What the hell does he even mean, "looking for someone else to solve their problems"? That makes no sense at all!

[pazzyanne]

9. "looking for someone else to solve their problems"

That statement is the nutshell that lost Santorum his position in congress. He did not understand what his job was. There are still many in congress that are just as clueless!

[Freedomofspeech]

33. He got elected here in Pennsyltucky...that's how.

I hate that moron.

[FakeNoose]

35. Thank God he's gone now

He wouldn't dare even show his face here any more. Come to think of it I'm surprised he's not interviewing for one of Cheeto's empty Cabinet positions. I'm sure he would fit right in.

[Glamrock]

5. Is it so fucking difficult to understand we shouldn't have

active fucking shooters in the first place. Really?

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. Santorum! Only the best people comment!

[mainstreetonce]

7. Yeah if only we had taught CPR

To the Newtown first graders.

[Ohiogal]

10. Ha! He probably would support that!

[mainstreetonce]

16. Adults should know CPR

Should the adults in Las Vegas have stayed around to do CPR or run for their lives?

[forgotmylogin]

44. CPR doesn't help when someone is gushing blood. (n/t)

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

50. Especially from a high-velocity bullet like the AR-15 fires.

One emergency room doctor that was interviewed said he was used to seeing the xrays of gunshot wounds -- a thin straight line across the image -- but the first time he saw one from a victim shot by an AR-15 he couldn't recognize any organs because the damage was so severe. "There was nothing left to repair."

We should make a website devoted to all the stupid things the NRA and GOP are going to say to attack the students (not just the Parkland ones, but all who are joining in the protest), including:

"If they're not old enough to vote, they're not old enough to participate in this discussion." (So, if you don't have a uterus, you don't have the right to make laws concerning women's bodies?)

Emma Gonzalez is a "skinhead lesbian." (The Republican candidate who said this dropped out the next day.)

And now Santorum suggests students learning CPR as an alternative to real action.

I'm sure there are more, and will be even more as the students ratchet up the pressure, and midterms get closer and closer. A man cannot serve two masters, and the Republicans are going to have to choose between the NRA and the 90% of the population who want sensible gun control laws.

[dameatball]

54. That pretty much just leaves the Heimlich maneuver. Not sure that will help much either.

[Cryptoad]

8. I guess he will want the Poor kids on Free-n-reduced lunch,,,,,

to clean up all the blood and guts. geeez

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. How about issuing body armor and helmets to all school children?

That way they'd be a little safer if some loon with a sacrosanct and constitutionally protected weapon decided to shoot up their school, and nobody would have to have their guns taken away.



I'm surprised nobody has suggested this yet.

[Downtown Hound]

12. Better yet, how about we use Rick as a human shield

during the next shooting?

[global1]

13. Does He Listen To Himself?.....

Does he even realize what he is saying?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Santorum thinks no corner has been turned & NRA will not get damaged. . . . . nt

[shadowmayor]

18. Hey Rickie

How about instead of learning to lock doors, hide in closets or duck under desks, kids start learning to kneel in prayer circles so they can "pray the gun away" from the psychopath in the hallway?

[redwitch]

19. Just brilliant.

Get a brain moran. Honestly who ever resurrected that idiot should face severe punishment of some sort. Thank God for tv remotes that allow me to turn him off rapidly.

[Hoyt]

20. Pressing on someones chest with a bunch of bullet holes in them, ain't gonna help, Ricky.

[LittleGirl]

21. Why does CNN continue to have that idiot on? eom

[RKP5637]

25. Viewership. Some actually like this guy. CNN is all about money too. n/t

[arithia]

22. santorum stole $100k from PA taxpayers

to send his kids to an online religious charter school that the state he was actually residing in wouldn't pay for. The only reason he got away with it was the time limit on prosecution. He is one of the last f*cking people who should lecture anyone about personal responsibility.

Shut up, Frothy. Using these kids to extend your already expired 15 minutes of fame is absolutely disgusting.

[Plucketeer]

23. Damned LOL-instigator!

Ricky Dunce-Hat should have a heart attack and have the para-medics show up with AR-15s to treat him with!

[radliberal]

24. Delusional conclusions from selling your soul to the Koch brothers...

Woe to those who call good evil and evil good

[riversedge]

26. So, Santorum is saying-Let guns tear apart small bodies, then lets other small bodies try to save

the bullet ridden bodies. Got it you heartless,, creepy SOB!

[blue neen]

27. Geebus H. Cripes, this man is a loser.

Lil' Ricky didn't send his kids to public school, so he didn't have to worry about the shooting scenario. Santorum lived in Virginia for years, while billing the taxpayers of PA $100,000 for the kiddo's cyber schooling.

Rick Santorum always was, and always will be, the consummate jerk.

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. I love he said this, the more ridiculously tone deaf, stupid comments like this from known

high profile people associated with the REPUBLICAN PARTY, the better.

I truly believe this movement is the end of the GOP as to power, they will be lucky to control the mayors office in bumfuck Alabama in a few years.

[SonofDonald]

29. You only perform CPR on a person who is dead

You don't perform it on a live person, you also break their ribs during CPR, great thing for someone full of holes already, especially when done by kids who are already traumatized.

This is why I don't watch cnn as they've hired a brain donor to spout nonsense on tv.

Isn't this the same idiot who once diagnosed Terry Schiavo while never having been in the same room?.

What a fucking moron.

[PunksMom]

30. Hes such an embarrassment to this state...

...and such an asshole😖

[PatrickforO]

31. LMAO! Once again, Santorum oozes little feces pieces all over the place.

He says, "...instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem..."

Think about that for a minute. He and his right wingers HAVE CREATED THIS PROBLEM with their constant, unrelenting efforts to 1) portray the government as the enemy that people need to arm themselves against, and 2) increase profits for the shareholders in publicly held weapons manufacturing corporations.

It's always about money. Always.

Fortunately, very few take Santorum seriously anymore. Much like Pat Robertson and other fringe-right crazies, he has been pretty thoroughly discredited.

[Freethinker65]

32. Spoken like Jesus himself. Hahahahaha. Suffer little children

Lost in translation somewhere for Frothy

[magicarpet]

34. A first aid kit for every class room...

.... so you can slap a band aid on all the bullet wounds. Then quickly get back to the religious teachings and learning during buy-bull study classes.

Thoughts and prayers and band aids and buy-bulls are all we need to bring gun shootings in schools under control and fully resolve this issue once and for all.

[rock]

36. Honestly, I LOLed when I read his comment!

But I admit, I am easily entertained.

P.S. What is the past tense of LOL?

[vkkv]

38. L'd O L ?

[vkkv]

37. Let's get RID fo DRUNK DRIVING LAWS and just ask people to "Look out for drunk drivers more"..

Yeah, that's the ticket.. yeah.

[trixie2]

39. Most high school students already take CPR

in gym or health class.

What the hell does that have to do with anything?

[xor]

45. Chrono Progression Reduction... AKA Bullet Time.

?t=112

[packman]

40. Better than that superintendent who wants a bucket of stones

in each classroom to ward off shooters. I can just see a student applying CPR while a guy is blasting away with a gun. Gawd, the stupidity of these morons.

[Corgigal]

41. Yeah,

Keep picking on the kids, who went through a traumatic event. Brilliant.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

42. Spreading Santorum

Someone call the hazmat crew.

[xor]

43. In addition to CRP they should learn some martial arts...

There is an ancient martial art that teaches people how to slow down time in order to avoid bullets. They demonstrated this time slowing technique in the documentary titled The Matrix. There is really no reason why we should not be teaching our kids how to use these powerful moves. All the other countries in the world teach their kids how to do this, and that is why they have so few gun deaths when compared to the US.

[Cold War Spook]

46. I am 74 years old,

and I don't know how much more of this shit I can take. I keep hoping that when one of these assholes makes a remark worse than all the others it is the bottom. It never is. I am going to have to watch at least 3 hours of speeches by Malala Yousafzai to get him out of my head.

[Leghorn21]

47. NOW have I seen and heard it all??! WTF, man? - well, at least hes getting hammered

righteously on twitter

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[Angry Dragon]

48. Shake your head and make the bad people go away

This man thought he should be president............no way

[Paladin]

49. There's a reason Santorum hasn't held office for years.

This quote is the latest Exhibit "A" as to why. Stupid, clueless NRA whore.

[Sophia4]

51. This guy claims to be "pro-life," doesn't he?

I am beginning to wonder why the emphasis on pro-life if he thinks once the babies are born, they are supposed to fend for themselves in a world that is allowed to be as dangerous to them as possible.

Somewhere I see a logic, but I don't like it.

Have lots of babies and then it's up to each of them to fight to survive. Let them learn CPR.

You can't perform CPR on yourself. And if you are being shot at by a powerful rifle, you have to get away. You can't stay behind to perform CPR on your best friend, sister, brother much less perfect stranger.

This is why we should not elect Republicans to public office.

They are stupid.

[bucolic_frolic]

52. Yes! That's the old Rick! Tone deaf as a mule

You can't fix the stupid. Rick proves it yet again

[Faux pas]

53. Besides being irrelevant and,

a pant load, old ricky boy is a boil on the ass of life.

[diane in sf]

55. Because cpr is so effective when someone is bleeding out from softball sized holes in their body

[Docreed2003]

56. So let's train kids to be combat medics? Yeah that's the ticket.

[WestMichRad]

58. That's the epitomy of a tone-deaf response

He proves to all once again how he is such an A-S-S.

This goes right to top of the list of your all-time stupid utterances. Nice job, Santorum, you still have the touch!

[uppityperson]

59. WTF on so many levels

[Botany]

60. CPR does not work when somebody's leg is blown off their body from a .223 round

Rick is a vile piece of crap. BTW I lost a friend to gun violence years ago and
it is not like the movies or TV .... she died a few months after being shot brain
dead and in a coma because of loss of O2. I can not post what I would like to do
to Rick S..

[Le Gaucher]

62. who the fuck is he? and what kind of fucking name is that?

[47of74]

63. Sanscrotum should learn how to fuck himself first.

[muriel_volestrangler]

64. Santorum has not been an elected representative for many years

His (paid) opinion is not, in itself, "important news of national interest", as LBN rules require. Please repost in GD. Thanks.