In light of the tragic elementary school shooting, which ended with twenty-six casualties (excluding the shooter) - twenty of which were 6- and 7-year old kids - most of the country has tried figuring out who or what to blame. This is extremely common when tragedies strike. When the Columbine school shootings occurred, the media was quick to blame violent video games and musician Marilyn Manson. There was little to no evidence to suggest this, especially with regard to Manson, since it was later discovered the two shooters didn't even like his music. However, it made the nation feel some sense of collective relief, in being able to solve the riddle, as well as push responsibility as far away from themselves as was possible.
Following the Friday shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, there have been three main areas of blame: 1) Lack of mental health services/funding
2) Lack of gun regulation
3) Violent video games
Those have been the main three areas of focus, especially for liberals and moderates (the first two in particular). However, some on the right have been making a different argument.
As former Arkansas Governor and current Fox News talking head (soon to be blob) Mike Huckabee said: "...we've systematically removed God from our schools" and "...And somebody is going to suggest we pass a law to stop all this kind of thing. I might want to point out that we don't have to pass a new law, there is one that has been around awhile that works if we'd teach it and observe it: 'Thou shalt not kill.'"
Focus on the Family founder and rumored co-lead of the Brokeback Mountain sequel - James Dobson - followed Huckabee's lead, saying: "Our country does seem in complete disarray. I'm not talking politically, I'm not talking about the result of the November sixth election; I am saying that something has gone wrong in America and that we have turned our back on God.
I mean millions of people have decided that God doesn't exist, or he's irrelevant to me and we have killed 54 million babies and the institution of marriage is right on the verge of a complete redefinition. Believe me, that is going to have consequences, too.
And a lot of these things are happening around us, and somebody is going to get mad at me for saying what I am about to say right now, but I am going to give you my honest opinion: I think we have turned our back on the scripture and on God almighty and I think he has allowed judgment to fall upon us. I think that's what's going on."
That's right, ladies and gentlemen! The main reason for Friday's tragic shooting isn't the fact that the shooter had mental health issues and we've seen decreased funding and services for that kind of thing. It isn't the fact that mentally-disturbed individuals have less problem purchasing a firearm than a person with allergy problems has of purchasing Sudafed. It isn't the fact that assault weapons are legal to purchase. It isn't that many parents, instead of being the primary teachers of their children, have passed those responsibilities off to the entertainment world - many of which is violent. No, forget all of that. The main reason for Friday's shooting is that this country has turned its back on an invisible superman, somehow responsible for creating the world in six days, who sent his perfect son - born from a virgin - to die on a cross as a sacrifice for our sins, only to rise from the dead three days later, and afford us all the opportunity of living an afterlife with him in a paradise known as heaven. The reason is because it's legal for women who are raped to have an abortion. The reason is because women, whose lives are in jeopardy, can have an abortion. The reason is because even though such relationships have existed all throughout history (and across many different species), homosexual relationships (marriages) are being legalized. No, forget that the perpetrator of Friday's act was mentally deranged and had with him a Bushmaster .223 semi-automatic rifle he stole from his mother. Let's make it about turning our back on an invisible man in the sky and pretend everything will be alright. Just tell the parents of those twenty-six victims that - especially the parents of the twenty 6- and 7-year old kids, who will never drive a car, who will never go to prom, who will never graduate high school or college, who will never date, get married or have kids of their own, who will never live to see another day. Yeah, tell their parents, "Look - your child may have been the victim of a gun crime, where a guy with mental health problems got his hands on a legally-purchased semi-automatic weapon, but let's not focus our attention on getting people with such mental problems help or making it more difficult to purchase assault weapons. Let's overturn Roe v. Wade and add an amendment to the Constitution banning gay marriage. Then these kinds of shootings will never happen again." Yeah, good luck with that...
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/16/huckabee-attacks-tax-funded-abortion-pills-in-newtown-monologue/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/17/james-dobson-connecticut-shooting-gay-marriage_n_2318015.html
Following the Friday shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, there have been three main areas of blame: 1) Lack of mental health services/funding
2) Lack of gun regulation
3) Violent video games
Those have been the main three areas of focus, especially for liberals and moderates (the first two in particular). However, some on the right have been making a different argument.
As former Arkansas Governor and current Fox News talking head (soon to be blob) Mike Huckabee said: "...we've systematically removed God from our schools" and "...And somebody is going to suggest we pass a law to stop all this kind of thing. I might want to point out that we don't have to pass a new law, there is one that has been around awhile that works if we'd teach it and observe it: 'Thou shalt not kill.'"
Focus on the Family founder and rumored co-lead of the Brokeback Mountain sequel - James Dobson - followed Huckabee's lead, saying: "Our country does seem in complete disarray. I'm not talking politically, I'm not talking about the result of the November sixth election; I am saying that something has gone wrong in America and that we have turned our back on God.
I mean millions of people have decided that God doesn't exist, or he's irrelevant to me and we have killed 54 million babies and the institution of marriage is right on the verge of a complete redefinition. Believe me, that is going to have consequences, too.
And a lot of these things are happening around us, and somebody is going to get mad at me for saying what I am about to say right now, but I am going to give you my honest opinion: I think we have turned our back on the scripture and on God almighty and I think he has allowed judgment to fall upon us. I think that's what's going on."
That's right, ladies and gentlemen! The main reason for Friday's tragic shooting isn't the fact that the shooter had mental health issues and we've seen decreased funding and services for that kind of thing. It isn't the fact that mentally-disturbed individuals have less problem purchasing a firearm than a person with allergy problems has of purchasing Sudafed. It isn't the fact that assault weapons are legal to purchase. It isn't that many parents, instead of being the primary teachers of their children, have passed those responsibilities off to the entertainment world - many of which is violent. No, forget all of that. The main reason for Friday's shooting is that this country has turned its back on an invisible superman, somehow responsible for creating the world in six days, who sent his perfect son - born from a virgin - to die on a cross as a sacrifice for our sins, only to rise from the dead three days later, and afford us all the opportunity of living an afterlife with him in a paradise known as heaven. The reason is because it's legal for women who are raped to have an abortion. The reason is because women, whose lives are in jeopardy, can have an abortion. The reason is because even though such relationships have existed all throughout history (and across many different species), homosexual relationships (marriages) are being legalized. No, forget that the perpetrator of Friday's act was mentally deranged and had with him a Bushmaster .223 semi-automatic rifle he stole from his mother. Let's make it about turning our back on an invisible man in the sky and pretend everything will be alright. Just tell the parents of those twenty-six victims that - especially the parents of the twenty 6- and 7-year old kids, who will never drive a car, who will never go to prom, who will never graduate high school or college, who will never date, get married or have kids of their own, who will never live to see another day. Yeah, tell their parents, "Look - your child may have been the victim of a gun crime, where a guy with mental health problems got his hands on a legally-purchased semi-automatic weapon, but let's not focus our attention on getting people with such mental problems help or making it more difficult to purchase assault weapons. Let's overturn Roe v. Wade and add an amendment to the Constitution banning gay marriage. Then these kinds of shootings will never happen again." Yeah, good luck with that...
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/16/huckabee-attacks-tax-funded-abortion-pills-in-newtown-monologue/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/17/james-dobson-connecticut-shooting-gay-marriage_n_2318015.html
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