Flashback: Scalise Blasts Obama's Gun Measures

[BeyondGeography]

[riversedge]

1. Rep. Scalise calls Obama's gun measures "insulting. Referring to expanded background checks-

and other measures such as making sure the person buying a gun does not have a mental disorder.

Scalise accuses Obama of trying to take away the gun rights of Americans. Worth listening to.

[Squinch]

2. I cannot generate sympathy for this man. I wish I could, and I don't like the fact that

I can't, but the fact is that he has been peddling death, and got caught in the net he helped build.

His arguments aren't even standing up for constituent wishes. The vast majority of Americans support background checks and closing loopholes. This is pure NRA propaganda, and you know he is rewarded by them for spreading it.

I hope he recovers, but I think he is the cause of his own disaster.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Well said

I remember thinking at the time that "he's just covering up for his ISIS failure" line was particularly vile. They were all singing from the same playbook, as they always do.

I hope he has a re-think about all that. We need people like him in this country to have epiphanies.

[Squinch]

5. There is no integrity there whatsoever.They are brainless, like amoebas going toward food and light,

the food being money from lobbyists, the light being talking points that insult their voters and that are handed down by their leaders, who themselves are only chasing larger amounts of lobbyist money.

[Paladin]

7. My sentiments exactly. I hope that A-plus NRA rating is bringing him some comfort. (nt)

[gopiscrap]

16. you said it much kinder than I

I would have just said fuck him, what goes around, comes around

[tomhagen]

18. Scalise apparently wanted to make it easier for the deranged to acquire dangerous weapons...

And he got his wish. No sympathy at all; here.

[Fatemah2774]

4. As Robert Stack once said...

Irony can be pretty ironic.

Maybe Scalise thinks so now too.

[tomhagen]

6. The Definition of Karma

And on what basis can he claim all gun sellers are “law abiding citizens?”

[dalton99a]

8. +1

[MyOwnPeace]

9. tomhagen..........

LOVE your comment - and, by the way, I think your "video" clip is one of the most obnoxious things I've EVER seen of Orange Cheat-o, or anybody else for that matter, and I hang my head in shame to think that he is entitled to be the President of our country.

[calimary]

14. And what about all gun owners and users? They're all angelic innocents to him, correct?

I hate what happened to him. I feel terrible about that. NOBODY wants that. Nobody really wants to see these folks on that side of the issue be forced to eat their words. I sure don't. I'm rooting for him and the others who were wounded along with him to get better, and sooner than later.

But SHEESH...

I'm hoping that when and if he reaches full recovery, MAYBE, JUST MAYBE he'll have had time in that hospital bed to think more deeply about a couple of things:

1) the wanton, reckless access almost ANYBODY in this country, no matter how mean-spirited, aggressive, anger-filled, menacing, or just flat-out wacko they might be, can get their hands on ANY gun - of any size or caliber - for ANY reason.

And

2) the blessing that is a solid, affordable health care plan - not to mention the outright LAVISH version he enjoys as a Member of Congress. And it's not even on his tab! It's on OURS, as taxpayers. Like the ones that legions of Americans can't access, can't afford, and can't even imagine - especially after he and his GOP cohorts get their selfish, thoughtless, hard-hearted way.

[justhanginon]

10. As it says in the Bible, "what goeth around cometh around and

sometimes biteth one in the ass".
I would hope that he would recover and hopefully have an epiphany as to gun measures and help get some of these guns off the streets. That would be "in a perfect world". Yeah, I know!

[progressoid]

11. SEEEEE!! If Obumer had done his job, none of this would have happened!!!11!!!

[riversedge]

12. k for visibility

[SummerSnow]

13. Some people create their own storms, then get upset when it rains

[MarcA]

15. What about the medical expenses of gun violence victims?

[Nitram]

17. Yes, Scalise is a typically deranged NRA shill.

However, background checks would not have prevented his injuries. The shooter had not been charged with domestic abuse, did not have a criminal record and did not have obvious mental health issues.

[BeyondGeography]

19. No, but if Scalise had his way, people with mental health issues

would have expanded gun rights:

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/house-republicans-vote-expand-gun-access-mentally-impaired

[WhoIsNumberNone]

20. In a world where justice exists, they'd have this playing on a loop in his hospital room