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A North Dakota Representative believes abortions lead to school shootings...

North Dakota Republican member of the House - Kevin Cramer - had some interesting remarks when giving a commencement address at the University of Mary on May 4th of this year.

During this speech, Cramer said, "Forty years ago, the United States Supreme Court sanctioned abortion on demand. And we wonder why our culture sees school shootings so often."

Right, because the legalization of abortion is the cause for school shootings. I'm not sure how that alleged link works exactly, but I'm going to try and crawl inside the mind of Representative Cramer (not literally, thank goodness) and see where he possibly came up with such a link.

"Ladies and gentlemen, today I stand before you all to tell you the honest-to-God truth - guns don't shoot and kill people; abortions shoot and kill people! Think about it... Due to the sinful nature of abortion, God has made it so that whenever a child is aborted, a person gets shot and killed due to that abortion. Also, when someone has an abortion, the baby is fired out of the woman's vagina and slams into the doctor like a bullet from a machine gun. The doctor dies instantly from the baby-gunshot wound. Don't just take my word for it - take God's! Now, due to all of these babies flying out of their mother's vaginas at great speeds and killing doctors, along with God punishing others with fatal gunshots, a great number of people have become angered by these events, and this is when they resort to school shootings. That, my friends, is a fact! Like I said, guns don't shoot and kill people; abortions should and kill people! Thank you. God bless you all and God bless the United States of America!"

I'm guessing Mr. Cramer would draw a similarly crazy link with regard to gay marriage, such as this:

"Hear me loud and clear, America! We're seeing more and more states legalizing gay marriage. And we wonder why people have so many abortions!"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/kevin-cramer-school-shootings_n_3285328.html?1368720539

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