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Showing Original Post only (View all)Rick Santorum Suggests Unarmed 'Soft Target' Shoppers Tempted El Paso Shooter [View all]
Rick Santorum Suggests Unarmed Soft Target Shoppers Tempted El Paso Shooter
The former Pennsylvania senator parroted a line often used by gun control opponents that if everyone is armed, everyone is safer.
By Mary Papenfuss
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-santorum-soft-targets-el-paso-cnn_n_5d4766d3e4b0aca3411fa40b
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When CNN State of the Union host Jake Tapper asked about the Texas shooting Saturday that killed 20 people, Santorum responded: So they go after soft targets, thats exactly right. The whole point is that when you restrict guns to law-abiding people, you make more soft targets.
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Texas is an open-carry state where shoppers could legally have been armed but the law didnt have any impact on the Walmart attack. Tapper pointed out to Santorum that alleged gunman Patrick Crusius, 21, did not appear to be deterred by the possibility of any armed shoppers. In addition, it wasnt likely that a gunman could have easily determined who was armed and who was not to make any decision about a soft target.
Santorum, now a conservative CNN commentator, was parroting the narrative of gun control foes who argue that everyone is safer if everyone is armed. He also claimed, without evidence, that in several shooting instances this year, armed law-abiding people actually come, not police ... and stop these things.
In fact, it was police, not armed civilians, who stopped the attacks in both El Paso and later that night in Dayton, Ohio, where a gunman killed nine people in yet another mass shooting. Last Sunday, police also stopped a mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California that killed two children and an adult.
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Rick is just full of Santorum.
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Rick Santorum Suggests Unarmed 'Soft Target' Shoppers Tempted El Paso Shooter [View all]
marble falls
Aug 2019
OP
And how do the arriving police know who to shoot? They don't. Considering that so many
Nay
Aug 2019
#13
Let alone the good citizen shot to death by cops in the Baton Rouge Mall ...
marble falls
Aug 2019
#19
MAGA Cultist Answer: "... which ones skin is the darkest..." No sarc tag, they'd actually say this
uponit7771
Aug 2019
#21
Right, they were so tempting he drove 9 hours to kill those particular 'soft targets'.
tanyev
Aug 2019
#11
CNN decided they needed someone who could deliver the demented market niche.
marble falls
Aug 2019
#20
If the cops hadn't gotten that guy when they did, he was only a step or two from getting ...
marble falls
Aug 2019
#45
Seems like I recall there was a good guy with a gun (legally licensed to carry) who happened to be a
Grammy23
Aug 2019
#41
Ah Ricky - go back to ... Virginia - or Pennsylvania or wherever it is that you are from.
yellowcanine
Aug 2019
#51
Ricky Sanctorectum, the Original Frothy Mix, Thinks He's Relevant. How Cute. n/t
TygrBright
Aug 2019
#53
That is what amazed me in the Dayton videos - thoses cops were RUNNING towards full ...
marble falls
Aug 2019
#61