Illinois governor tells NRA to 'leave us the hell alone'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker told the National Rifle Association in a Tweet to “leave us the hell alone” in the wake of a mass shooting that killed seven people in Chicago’s Highland Park suburb Monday.

In a tweet Tuesday, the NRA cited recent research from the nonprofit Crime Prevention Research Center, which found that “Since 1950, 94% of mass public shootings occurred in gun-free zones.”

Pritzker replied: “And 100% of mass public shootings happen with guns. As Governor, on behalf of the people of Highland Park — leave us the hell alone.”

Link to tweet

The Illinois governor, in a press conference hours after the incident, called the July Fourth shooting exemplary of “our uniquely American plague.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/illinois-governor-tells-nra-to-leave-us-the-hell-alone/ar-AAZhQuw

[MustLoveBeagles]

1. Great response

[The Magistrate]

2. Hell, Sir, Let's Look At This NRA Line A Bit...

Shots ring out from a rooftop, dozens of people in the crowd drop to an alert crouch, producing pistols and even the occasional semi-auto rifle, begin blazing away at wherever each thinks the first shot has come from.

Can this prove out to anything but tragedy limned in farce?

How dim must one be to take such fantasies seriously?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Pistols?

Whoever wrote that is not a firearms expert but a gun fetishist. The accuracy of pistols is such that they more likely would have hit a bystander than the shooter.

[The Magistrate]

6. That's Original Fiction, Sir

A thought experiment illustrated in words. I quite agree few can shoot a pistol accurately, I believe Churchill said having the muzzle touching the target helped. But that's what most of our intrepid NRA eagles would have on their bodies. And I'm pretty sure the block wouldn't look the same for months and nobody would have plugged whoever'd opened fire in the first place. He might not even hold the lead in tallying who got shot by whom.

[IronLionZion]

11. And each person holding a gun looks potentially like the mass shooter

while the real mass shooter would be able to blend in and escape

[Midnight Writer]

15. Plus there were armed cops at the scene. The shooter fired 70 shots in less than 10 seconds.

By the time anyone got their bearings, it was all over.

[Frustratedlady]

3. Other Democratic governors should do the same, plus...

ban those killing machines from their state. Maybe the airhead Repukes will get the message...or, not.

If enough of America says, "we're mad and we aren't going to take it anymore," things will change.

[North Shore Chicago]

4. My Governor.

Very happy for it. Glad he is wealthy, unfortunately that is part of what it takes to be in the big time.

[AwakeAtLast]

17. Mine, too!

I'm way downstate in a sea of red, but this is a bright spot!

[Stuart G]

7. K and R Thanks for Posting ..My governor too

[tclambert]

8. I doubt the NRA would change their messaging even if someone shot up an NRA convention.

"Someone did a mass shooting at one of OUR conventions? Obviously our members need MORE GUNS!"

"Oh, and thoughts and prayers for all the traumatized survivors. Is 30 seconds enough? Or do you want a full 60 seconds?"

[Rhiannon12866]

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[dalton99a]

12. +1

[orleans]

10. my gov.

he's a good guy.
i feel lucky illinois has him

[Mblaze]

13. The only reason that I can think of

For the NRA to make that specific observation is that they want every zone in the USA to be flooded with weapons and shooters.

[Cha]

14. Rt💕🤷‍♂️TY & Gov Pritzker!!!

Save Our Democracy💙 in 2022 & 2024!

[SergeStorms]

16. So everyone should....

carry semi-automatic military style rifles everywhere, all the time, according to the NRA then?

We think the carnage is unbearable now? If the NRA gets its way - and with the current Supreme Whores in place there's no reason to believe they won't - imagine the Killing Fields type slaughter awaiting us all.

Yeah, fuck off, NRA.

[barbtries]

18. what does that shit even mean?

gun free zones? let's discuss the states and their laws and the relationship to mass murder. Any zone is by definition no longer gun free when a shooting happens there, because shootings can't happen without guns.