This fucker (TX House Rethug) is the perfect example of why we have mass shootings exploding

[Celerity]

Link to tweet

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. So now the right of every idiot with a pulse to own an assault weapon

is God-given, and what we should do is pray that even though God conferred that right, he'll protect people from those who exercise it? How does that work? That's some seriously fucked-up theology.

[Zambero]

2. Attesting to a god that does not exist in order to rationalize endless evil

Through the looking glass by any standard.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. But even if God did exist, somehow I don't think the right to own an AR-15

is something God would have included in a list of inalienable rights.

[Zambero]

19. I'm not even claiming that the Jesus God of the New Testament doesn't exist

Whether he does or not, the religious right has come up with it's own quasi- "Christian" idol to put in its place. Virtually every New Testament tenet put forth has been replaced with greed, tribalism, hatred and bigotry, violence, punishment of perceived enemies, neglect of those in need, hypocrisy where convenient, premeditated cruelty, ends justifying means (including strategic lying), and plundering the planet and species that occupy it since, well, Jesus is coming anyway!

[Scarsdale]

29. These words should be

comforting to the parents and family members of the 2 year old just shot in the face. Obviously, they do not have the right to take their children in their car and drive along a highway. Movie theaters, churches, schools, shopping malls, Wal Marts are all on the no go lists now for citizens afraid they might not live to see another day? What a country, eh? Home of the brave, land of the free. As long as you have protection like this ass does.

[dickthegrouch]

67. Whatever happened to God's actual words?

THOU SHALT NOT KILL??????

[Arkansas Granny]

3. But, he's going to pray! What more do you expect?

[H2O Man]

6. Seriously.

He'll pray to the god that he believes grants gun rights. He's a hopeless case.

[Zambero]

23. Always after the fact

The usual sequence of events follows: Prayers not answered, another mass shooting occurs, thoughts and prayers with the usual bunch of politicians promising meaningful action this time around, outrage gradually fading from the news cycle, politicians go silent because Mitch says no-go, incendiary Trump MAGAt rally gets covered by MSM, and yet another slaughter with non-stop "breaking news" coverage. Rinse and repeat.

[Newest Reality]

4. So Schaefer...

Then why don't you just resign and eliminate the middle-man? You have made yourself redundant and obsolete.

God and prayers can handle everything, so you can go crawl back into your hole and we won't waste taxpayer dollars on you, and we trust that God will provide, so you don't need a job. Your services are no longer required you fatuous clown.

[moose65]

57. Yeah really

If nothing can stop people with evil intent, why do we need ANY laws, or any lawmakers? Why aren’t these fuckers ever asked that question?

[struggle4progress]

5. Texas really needs a new state song

Dead babies can't take care of themselves ... dead babies can't take things off the shelf
Well ... we didn't love you anyway

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. What would Jesus carry?

[SCVDem]

17. Word for word

WWJC?

God given rights?

What firearms were around "in the beginning?"

You can bet that IF there were firearms in the beginning, they wouldn't be stoning people to death.

We would be reading it in the bible.

Dont'cha think?

[underpants]

28. I kind depends on your Jesus. MY research shows.

?w=680

[oasis]

8. "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" antiquated mentality.

[dalton99a]

10. This POS hypocrite wanted to impose the most severe government intrusions to deny women choices.

[MarcA]

53. Because guns like women, children and slaves are gawd-given Property

to an authoritarian feudalist.

[MyOwnPeace]

11. I would think........

that if "God" is handing out rights, the "right to survive" would be higher on the "desired" list than the right for single moms to be packin'..............

[smirkymonkey]

12. "God given right"?

WTF? These people are so sick I can't even get my mind around it. What is this obsession with guns and the absolute resistance to any kind of safety precaution surrounding them? I will never understand this sickness as long as I live.

[Scarsdale]

34. Obviously, something is

lacking in these people like him. Inadequate in some way, so they have to push their beliefs onto everyone around them. Who ELECTS these heartless clowns?

[DonaldsRump]

45. I was about to quote this phrase

This is insanity of the highest order, or shamelessly using religion to manipulate insane people, or a both.

Absolutely disgusting.

[True Blue American]

49. No Christian in their right mind

Would say such an ignorant thing.

[barbtries]

13. he's running unopposed

god given right. whatever happened to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

[Liberal In Texas]

24. Last election 2018, he had an indy running agianst him who got like 25% of the vote.

Dems in Texas are still getting their act together here, he should have had a dem opponent. Too many times in the past I've gone into the voting booth to see that the dems didn't put up anybody in opposition to the repubs.

Granted the guy is from RW Tyler and crazy East Texas, but we need to start at least running candidates and maybe the voting apathy will at least abate if people have someone to vote for.

[barbtries]

36. exactly.

my response is to never live in TX though. I try to do my part to make NC blue and that can be discouraging. I can't even imagine living in a place where I would not be allowed to refuse to have guns on my own property. I've never allowed guns in my home.

[Liberal In Texas]

41. You can still refuse to have guns on your own private property.

Although they have passed a law that "provides a defense for licensed handgun owners who unknowingly enter an establishment that prohibits firearms as long as they leave when asked."

[barbtries]

43. okay.

what if i own an apartment building? because i read otherwise just this morning, I think it was on DU?
it also said that school parking lots, places of worship, not sure what else, had to allow guns. no?
thanks

[Liberal In Texas]

46. Well, you should probably google texas gun laws and just read them.

Apt. management can't refuse to rent to someone just because they want to have guns in the apt.
Yes, school parking lots with locked up guns in the car. Church congregations can decide not to allow guns, previously there was a blanket prohibition.

[tblue37]

51. Remember Howard Dean's highly successful 50-state strategy? He didn't get the credit he deserved for

that, and he was just kicked to the curb.

[Liberal In Texas]

60. Yes, it was successful.

We should still be doing that. And all races are important, right down to the city and county races.

[tblue37]

63. The local and state races are the pipeline. The GOP uses them to train their pols

and to help them network and build name recognition. Dems tend to ignore those races. Heck, even now too many of the most competitive Dems can only see the presidency. The other races are invisible to them.

[Paladin]

14. Eat shit and die, Matt Schaefer. (nt)

[Mc Mike]

15. Double down, tough it out.

[Vinca]

16. What a bloody moron. WTF do they find so objectionable about background checks and

red flag laws? If a woman calls the police and says her husband is acting nuts, drinking and is threatening her with his gun, shouldn't it be just fine to take said gun away until the situation is resolved? Last week there was a story in the local paper about police taking 9 guns away from a felon. A noise complaint came in and they found the guy shooting in a gravel pit. The girlfriend (and a small child) were in the car and she told police the guy likes to shoot to "calm himself down." I guess the idiot Texas legislator would allow the felon to keep his arsenal and tell the people around him to pray.

[Lonestarblue]

18. He's from Tyler in East Texas.

The El Paso murderer was also from East Texas (Allen). If I remember correctly, in 2016 an East Texas woman (former teacher!) claimed that Obama had been a male stripper and was a drug dealer. East Texas has the most right-wing crazies of any part of the state, so nothing surprises me coming from the people in this area.

[Liberal In Texas]

26. FYI, Allen is in North Texas.

But there are still a lot of crazies in East Texas.

[elias7]

20. What's his end point?

[yaesu]

21. God gave them that right?, I need to look up assault rifle in the bible. nt

[bronxiteforever]

22. The Prophet Isaiah responds

So when you spread out your hands in prayer,
I will hide My eyes from you;
Yes, even though you multiply prayers,
I will not listen.
Your hands are covered with blood.


Learn to do good;
Seek justice,
Reprove the ruthless,
Defend the orphan,
Plead for the widow.


Note the action verbs Matt and yes your hands are covered in blood.

[Pepsidog]

25. Scumbag

[EveHammond13]

27. dangerous freak.

[gordianot]

30. The Bible is strangely silent about firearms even though Jesus cautioned about swords. N/T

[underpants]

31. I think Cracker said it best

[czarjak]

32. Hateful ignorance wrapped in religion or patriotism is still...

Hateful ignorance.

[edbermac]

33. My reply:

Link to tweet

[Celerity]

40. +10000

[justhanginon]

35. Hey Matt! There is an old saying applicable to you here.

"Live by the sword, die by the sword".
Thoughts and prayers for you, you POS. Thoughts and prayers for you.

[sinkingfeeling]

37. Having read the Bible, cover to cover, several times, I

wonder how I missed where god said, "Let all be armed to thy teeth with military grade weapons of war."

[NoPasaran]

65. You must have skipped over the Book of Armaments

[spanone]

38. This motherfucker thinks GOD gave man guns? FUCK YOU MATT

[Historic NY]

39. God didn't give us constitutional rights....

find it in the bible. These guys think the Declaration of Independence is the law of the land, when its an address to George III of grievances.


[link:https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/02/why-god-is-in-the-declaration-but-not-the-constitution/|]

[Prosper]

42. Removing all guns is the solution.

Replacing guns with a sense of security is a possible solution to removing all guns. Right wing will oppose because of the cost. Left wing will oppose a police state. Hillary said maybe we should look at Australia's buy back. Other than Hillary’s comment I haven’t seen anything close to ending gun violence in the near future.

[42bambi]

44. Why doesn't God send us good people with

guns to stop these mass shootings? That said, how many mass shootings has there been when a good guy with a gun stopped/killed the shooter?

[onetexan]

47. Damn SOB is a whacked RW

[dlk]

48. Schafer is the Essence of Evil

[MarcA]

50. See how it sounds if "god" is replaced with "allah" in his statement.

[3catwoman3]

58. It would be fascinating...

...to see how that jackass might reposed to such a rewording. Very interesting suggestion.

[calimary]

52. If all those prayers meant closed-minded willful idiots like you would never get another

vote for office, then maybe I'd start to believe in them as real solutions.

Maybe.

But as we've repeatedly seen, all those thoughts and prayers haven't done squat to make this problem go away. If they worked, I'd be advocating for them. But others choose to do only that, so I'll do something different - like ramp up my anti-gun activism.

[Sanity Claws]

54. God-given right to a gun?

Huh? God did not create guns. If the right to own guns was God-given, wouldn't he have given us guns? Like a tree that grows AK-47s?
Guns were created by man and are manufactured to make money.
What fucking assholes.

[TheCowsCameHome]

55. Schaefer's God-given right to

be a complete asshole.

Where the F do these people come from???!?

[Crunchy Frog]

56. TLDR.

Too much of an asshole for me to stomach.

[jmowreader]

59. Texas Monthly magazine rates him the worst legislator in Texas

https://www.texasmonthly.com/list/the-best-and-worst-legislators-2015/the-worst-representative-matt-schaefer/

[PatrickforO]

61. Well...at least we KNOW where Matt Schaeffer stands.

This uncompromising attitude is probably really strong in a lot of Trump supporters.

[moondust]

62. Public Endangerment

Hiding behind God?

Li'l Matt belongs in a nuthouse--not a statehouse.

I'll bet the opioid manufacturers sure wish their "God-given," deadly products were protected by a (depraved interpretation of an obsolete) Constitutional Amendment.

[IronLionZion]

64. So just prayers this time? Gave up on thoughts?

[keithbvadu2]

66. Joe The Plumber: 'Your Dead Kids Don't Trump My Constitutional Rights' To Have Guns

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/27/joe-the-plumber-guns_n_5397981.html

Joe The Plumber: ‘Your Dead Kids Don’t Trump My Constitutional Rights’ To Have Guns

Ironic how he chose that verb back in 2014