Rep. Diane Black Cites Porn As 'Root Cause' Of School Shootings

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Source: tpm




By Kate Riga | May 29, 2018 1:05 pm



Rep. Diane Black (R-TN), a candidate for governor of Tennessee, says that pornography is a “big part” of the impetus for school shootings, along with violent movies, “idle hands” and the “deterioration of the family.”

“It’s available on the shelf when you walk in the grocery store. Yeah, you have to reach up to get it, but there’s pornography there,” she said. “All of this is available without parental guidance. I think that is a big part of the root cause.”

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She added that mental illness and broken families are also parts of the problem, saying that even if a mother has a baby when she is not married to the father, both parents should recognize the sacredness of the baby and the life it will lead............................................




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House Budget Committee Chairman Diane Black, R-Tenn., flanked by Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., right, and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, left, speaks with reporters about progress on the GOP effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as “Obamacare,” on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 10, 2017. After grueling all-night sessions, the Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees both approved their portions of the bill along party-line votes. The bill goes to the House Budget Committee next week. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. But not guns

they are the body and blood of christ.

[Docreed2003]

2. I can't stand her...

She has ads out now where she is full on Trumpian.

I wonder what grocery store she shops in that sells porn? It sure as hell isnt the one in her neighborhood, although I doubt very seriously she shops for herself given that Mrs "average Jane" lives in a massive mansion on the lake.

[Grokenstein]

3. Porn leads to BUSY hands, not idle ones.

But hey, while we're talking about things that are "too readily available" and should be regulated strictly...

She added that mental illness and broken families are also parts of the problem

...but as a Republican she'll never do one single damned thing to help those people.

[George II]

21. Bazinga!

[jayschool2013]

29. I blame myself

I think of all the knitting and praying I could have done with my hands as a teenager.

Oh, well.

[dameatball]

4. I thought porn was the "root cause" of payoffs that did not happen.

[tazkcmo]

5. Wonder where she shops for food

Priscilla's?

[Javaman]

6. Aunt Lydia. nt

[Iliyah]

7. I have noticed that Repulicans sure are into sex and are

constantly trying to look in everybody's bedroom. As usual it is an insane answer to a true reality.

[Liberalagogo]

8. Hmmmmmmmmm......

“It’s available on the shelf when you walk in the grocery store. Yeah, you have to reach up to get it, but there’s pornography there,” she said. “All of this is available without parental guidance. I think that is a big part of the root cause.”

She sure does seem to know where to find and get to porn.

[thucythucy]

9. Calling Michael Cohen!

Clean up in aisle nine.

[beachbum bob]

11. Lol...kids getting parents guns and having white supremacist hate thrown at

Them has nothing to do with it?...absolutely bunkers as expected

[relogic]

12. Speaks like a...

pro. Her expertise is far removed from understanding the psycho dynamics of this subject. However, the more I ponder this-perhaps she’s a pro on pornography. Either way it doesn’t speak well of her inexcusable bluster-part and parcel of what makes her a repub, after all.

[IronLionZion]

13. Rep. Diane Black is part of the problem

if she can't acknowledge guns as a force multiplier. All of those other issues would produce a very different outcome if the "idle hands" were used for mass punchings.

[KG]

14. no matter the context or cause, the constant factor of mass shootings is guns.

guns.

guns. guns. guns. guns.

[jmowreader]

15. Folks, I've been to grocery stores in Tennessee

They sell a lot of things, but not porn.

Unfortunately, Screw Magazine went out of print in 2005...I would be tempted to buy any politician who claims that ordinary mass-market publications are "porn" a year's subscription to that publication, so that they would have a frame of reference as to what porn is.

[volstork]

34. I've lived in TN

For 48 of my 52 years and have never seen porn in a grocery store.

Here’s what’s REALLY obscene:

It’s diane black’s house. $1million on the kitchen cabinets alone.

[smirkymonkey]

44. Ugh! What a hideous monstrosity!

How tacky! How much is this moron getting paid anyway? How do people like this get elected? I have a hard time believing that people are really that stupid.

[RhodeIslandOne]

16. She looks like a fucking nut

[SansACause]

17. I thought it was Marilyn Manson?

But, dang, it was porn all this time.

[bucolic_frolic]

18. Her theory needs work

to explain how she gets from objectification to dehumanization to the desire for bloodshed and sometimes suicide.

Guns 'n Centerfolds - a work in progress

[azureblue]

19. Republicans

are the cause of school shootings. They doing the bidding of the NRA. They block every attempt at regulating gun sales. They allow guns to get into the hands of the shooters. They are the cause of school shootings

[rurallib]

20. She'd make one hell of a criminal investigator wouldn't she?

It takes a special kind of stupid to twist things up and come up with porn as the answer - especially when it is hard to do a shooting without a gun.

[Rebl2]

22. Porn?

Does she mean gun porn? Not quite how you connect the two.

[47of74]

23. Uh, does she know which states are the biggest consumers of the porns?

Somehow I doubt it

Red-state conservatives may insist that the rest of us should keep aspirin between our knees and be forced to bear Divine Justice Babies if we don’t. They may refuse to provide cake or flowers for gay weddings, or even to attend. They may pretend that teens won’t do it if we just don’t tell them how. They may adopt the Church Lady posture if anyone mentions sex that doesn’t involve one man, one woman, the missionary position and a pulsing desire for more offspring.

But online search traffic from behind closed doors in Jesusland suggests that the bad, nasty, sexual impulses righteous believers are trying so hard to shut down may be their own. And if Google search patterns mean anything, they’re not succeeding too well: studies consistently demonstrate that people in conservative religious states search for adult materials online far more often than people in blue states.

[LudwigPastorius]

24. "It's available on the shelf when you walk in the grocery store."

I guess I didn't realize that Kroger's was selling copies of "Assmasters" at the checkout.

They must keep it between the "TV Guide" and "Women's Day".

[Vinca]

25. Idle hands? If they're watching porn their hands are probably occupied.

Definitely one of the dumber GOP excuses why guns aren't the problem.

[YOHABLO]

26. Because we're only suppose to procreate and never, never have pleasure with our bodies

[DRoseDARs]

28. I don't know about the rest of us, but Rep. Black can definitely go fuck herself. nt

[DRoseDARs]

27. And Reagan's destruction of the mental health system allowed people like Rep. Black into office. nt

[Ohiogal]

30. What else can you say but

[Eliot Rosewater]

31. Imagine being this dumb and attaining position of assistant mgr of a 7 11 let alone this.

[sinkingfeeling]

32. Yes, lots of gun pine magazines out there.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

33. And it can all be fixed if everyone would just accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

That's the subtext of what she's saying, isn't it? Surely we can't do anything that might hurt those poor, innocent guns.

GOPers are so full of shit I'm surprised they can speak.

[Warren_Pointe]

35. She means lack of porn, right?

Parental controls ruin so many lives.

[mwooldri]

37. Lack of parental controls on the guns ruin lives.

Parental controls on porn can ruin lives too... but I haven't heard of any mass death by masturbation.

Maybe we need to recruit teachers like Stormy Daniels to the classroom? Naaa... but it might get people interested in the physiology and anatomy parts of science class.

[llmart]

36. OMG!

You can't make this shit up. The GOP has become some sort of weird abomination of people with diarrhea of the mouth who have no idea what they're talking about but love to hear themselves speak.

Now I've heard everything (at least for today).

[George II]

38. I'm truly dumbfounded!

I'm sure that vile woman rues every day of her existence, having to live her life with the surname "Black"!

[The Genealogist]

39. I thought their story was too many doors in schools.

Whatevah. Their all coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs.

[videohead5]

40. Broken families?

Trump has two broken families and cheated on Melania with porn stars and Playboy bunnies.he did not just watch porn he slept with a porn star.

[TexasBushwhacker]

41. God I wish stupidity were painful n/t

[sarcasmo]

42. Porn, Ritalin, and video games. It's the guns you Dolt.

[sakabatou]

43. ...wut?

[riversedge]

45. Howard Dean: OMG

Link to tweet

[tclambert]

46. If porn causes your hands to be idle, you're doing it wrong.

[flibbitygiblets]

47. Someone should tell her that pulling facts out of your ass is an act of pornography.

FOR SHAME!! Think of the CHILDREN!!

[Locrian]

48. what the hell?

What decade is she stuck in? Is this 1985 or something? And what grocery store (cough... sex shop) does she go to?

“It’s available on the shelf when you walk in the grocery store. Yeah, you have to reach up to get it, but there’s pornography there,” she said.

wonder what she would think of this new fangled thingy called the "internets"?



edit: But she may actually be right: I do see a lot of porn in the super markets, but its "gun porn" magazines like "Guns and Ammo", "Shooters Digest", etc. Maybe she thinks those admit-ably phallic titles are "real" porn magazines?!