Las Vegas.
The place where the stakes are pretty high for losing not just money, but lives as well:
Those were the sounds a host of concert-goers heard last Sunday Night at a Jason Aldean concert. There were shots ringing from an assault rifle coming from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas. Armed with a sledgehammer to knock out the windows, suspect Stephen Paddock unleashed an unholy amount of fire down on the Route 91 Harvest Festival, having an unobstructed, clean view to shoot from. This all set up the perfect storm for the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. recent history, killing fifty-nine and injuring five hundred thirty more.
Some have done the proper thing in this tragic event. Others, well, have other ideas:
Wow. That is pretty profound to blame a shooting on a lack of respect for Trump, protests of the Anthem, and God.
Yes, host of “The 700 Club” and possible messenger for the grim reaper Pat Robertson thinks that if we just gave the oompa-loompa in chief, a song, and possible imaginary friend the Gandhi treatment that is obviously unrequited, then shootings won’t happen. Giving blind respect and adoration for people has NEVER led us astray, has it?
Anyways, the solutions to prevent further acts of mass terrorism slowly started to filter in. Hillary Clinton offered her take on Twitter as the presidential hopeful from last year Tweeted:
“The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter has a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.”
It made sense on the forefront; if a silencer had been in place, the death toll would have reached the hundreds. This was thought to be an outright slam on the Hearing Protection Act, introduced by Reps. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) and John Carter (R-TX), that would “remove silencers from the Internal Revenue Code’s definition of ‘firearms.”
Supporters of the bill vouch that it would protect against hearing loss, while opposers vouch that the sound guns make is a safety feature, alerting people of potential danger.
Anyways, Hillary’s take had made a whole lot of sense to all with a brain, then there’s her:
“We need more facts on the shooting…”
Yeah, not like we’ve got a plethora of mass shootings to provide us with plenty of facts about how dangerous weapons, such as assault rifles, are in the wrong hands. Solutions need to be found, fast. And it might be wise to heed advice from somebody who, according to your boss, has spent thirty years in politics.
Respect those with higher seniority than you.
Now with the moment of the week:
More Crazy Shit Pat Robertson Has Said: