gop Candidate for Tenn. Gov. says porn "root cause" for school shootings

[Va Lefty]

"Rep. Diane Black (R-TN), a candidate for governor of Tennessee, says that pornography is a “big part” of the impetus for school shootings..."

"“It’s available on the shelf when you walk in the grocery store. Yeah, you have to reach up to get it, but there’s pornography there,” she said. “All of this is available without parental guidance. I think that is a big part of the root cause.”"

Gives new meaning to "clean up on aisle 6"


https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/diane-black-cites-porn-as-root-cause-of-school-shootings

[Arkansas Granny]

1. Good grief. They will blame anything except the thing that fires the bullets.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Has this guy ever heard if internet porn?

He needs to crawl back under his rock.

[Blue_true]

27. It's a woman. nt

[BigmanPigman]

30. OK. Has this woman ever heard of internet porn?

She needs to crawl back under her rock.

[Blue_true]

39. I honestly don't think the rock want her back.

Looks like she checked out a long time ago. But I guess she has to out weird her republican primary rivals.

[Ferrets are Cool]

28. Her, I think. nt

[lapfog_1]

3. nobody but nobody buys porn at the grocery store anymore

She is totally out of touch.

[Va Lefty]

14. I know. Everyone knows the really good stuff is at the hardware store.

[Blue_true]

29. Duh????? There is a reason why it's called a hardware store. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Who buys hard-copy porn any more?

[Major Nikon]

17. Horny luddites

[0rganism]

23. Diane Black, apparently

she seems to know exactly where to look for it, too

[Thomas Hurt]

5. I thought it was rural electrification, fluoride....no wait, it was rock and roll....

no wait, it was heavy metal, no wait, it was teletubbies, no wait, it was dungeons and dragons, no wait, it was Barney, no wait, it was Abercrombie and Fitch marketing, no wait, it was video games, no wait, it was.....

[ProfessorGAC]

10. You Forgot A Big One

At least for these troglodytes: It was when they took prayer out of the public schools. If someone hasn't said it on TV or the web, just wait. It will come up in just days. Guaranteed.


Them: "We didn't have these shootings when there was prayer in school."
Us: "When prayer was in school, we didn't have 50 round magazines on light weight rapid fire weapons readily available."
Them: "We need those weapons now, because they took prayer out of schools."

Then people like you me scream at the TV scream and change the channel.

[Thomas Hurt]

11. well kind of, but a high school kid from a blue collar family back in 1957

went on a killing spree, killed 11 people. Granted he did not kill them in a school, but he was a bullied student.

So using the right's own standard I think we can blame Charles Starkweather on prayer in schools.

I mean why not...

[treestar]

24. It is rather insane

The cure-all for just about everything. Merely reciting a prayer each morning is going to make kids entirely different.

[Ferrets are Cool]

32. Actually, the BIG one I keep hearing down here in the cradle of idiocy (bama)

is the lack of a "firm" hand on the children. In other words, if parents were still "allowed" to be the shit out of their children, none of them would be shooting up schools.

[treestar]

6. Absurd

What could be the relationship?

[Xolodno]

7. No, no, no...

...its people who play Dungeons and Dragons.

[Volaris]

21. AND the comic books, and the talkie pictures...

I'm just gonna go ahead and blame Thanos. Yep. That's the one.
Damn I should run for governor as a Republican (geeze we ALL should, given how easy this seems to be lol...).

[Blue_true]

35. Are you crazy enough to run for anything as a republican?

One long moment of sanity would do you in.

[Volaris]

43. Yeah that's very true I suppose...

It would be difficult to keep up The Crazy act for long enough to actually get sworn in...not sure I'd have that level of stamina OR acting ability heh!

[shraby]

8. Don't forget comic books and dancing.

[Major Nikon]

18. Teletubbies

[ProudLib72]

40. That I can believe

They never do ANYTHING! They run around in circles, mumble something, run back in their hole "house", and NOTHING of substance transpires the entire time! AND THERE IS A BABY FACE IN THE SUN THAT CHORTLES!!! It's enough to drive anyone insane.

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. Jees. And I thought it was the white supremists.

And their vitriol.

[Vogon_Glory]

12. Ms. Black does't get It. Long after the last nudie magazine

Has been swept off the drug store shelf (Which is where I used to buy mine decades ago), guys will still be able to buy gun magazines with half-naked models smiling and holding the latest deadly multi-round rapid-firing firearm.

[Ferrets are Cool]

34. Featuring the FLOTUS

on the wing of an airplane.

[spanone]

13. dianne black and marsha blackburn are trying to out-trump each other

they are both despicable

[mac56]

15. She blames porn AND "idle hands."

Umm... far as I can tell, those two things DON'T go together.

[Blue_true]

36. Yeah, she did seem to mismatch them. nt

[oberliner]

16. She thinks kids are getting porn from a shelf in a grocery store?

[Major Nikon]

19. They have to climb over the gun porn mags

[oberliner]

26. Or maybe just go online?

[Blue_true]

37. She isn't playing with a full deck, or she just purposely has shit come out of her mouth.

Amazingly, lots of voters take her seriously, she is a state rep afterall.

[maxsolomon]

20. Flailing, grasping at straws

Something's got to be blamed, but it can't be too-liberal access to firearms.

The impulse to seek revenge for imagined grievances, and achieve infamy is present in many young males - they're stuffed full of testosterone and their brains aren't fully formed.

its the means to enact that revenge that should be difficult to access.

REGULATE THE MILITIA.

[renegade000]

22. But it may be the cause of...

the alt-right's weird fixation on "cucks."

[Blue_true]

25. The grocery stores in Tennessee.

Do they have orgies going on in the bakery department? I have honestly NEVER seen porn in ANY grocery store that I have been in, never saw it even in convenience stores (other than magazines down low behind the counter.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

31. Well

if we're just going to say anything...then it's my supposition that porn makes rich people crazy and they should donate their wealth to charity after having been exposed to it.
ASIDE...I heard that while she was making this speech, her husband was home watching porn and ordering guns online. Clean your own house first lady.

[Initech]

33. Replace "pornography" with "guns" and I'll agree with you.

"“It’s available on the shelf when you walk in the grocery store. Yeah, you have to reach up to get it, but there’s guns there,” she said. “All of this is available without parental guidance. I think that is a big part of the root cause.”"

And this statement is far more true!

[Cha]

38. Then get rid of the fucking FAKE in the wh

[ProudLib72]

41. The real reason porn star Stormy is on full display on the cover of every tabloid at the checkout

You're absolutely correct about that.

[enid602]

42. Porn

You can bet that after all these years, she's still 'bearing that old rugged crotch.'