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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy "WTF?" of the day, Rick Perry calls the SC shootings an "accident??!!??"
Rick Perry: Charleston Shooting An 'Accident' Due To Drug Use, Manipulated By Obama To Ban Guns
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Friday, 6/19/2015 1:50 pm
In an interview today with Steve Malzberg of Newsmax, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry described the mass shooting at an African American church in Charleston earlier this week as an accident that was possibly caused by the over-prescription of medication.
Perry and Malzberg kicked off the discussion of the shooting by attacking President Obama for mentioning the failure to pass gun reform. Perry, a GOP presidential candidate, said that the president is trying to take the guns out of the hands of everyone in this country.
This is the MO of this administration, any time there is an accident like this the president is clear, he doesnt like for Americans to have guns and so he uses every opportunity, this being another one, to basically go parrot that message, Perry said.
Instead of talking about guns, Perry said, we should be talking about prescription drugs: Also, I think there is a real issue to be talked about. It seems to me, again without having all the details about this, that these individuals have been medicated and there may be a real issue in this country from the standpoint of these drugs and how theyre used.
He said that such drugs are responsible for high suicide and joblessness rates, adding that there are a lot of issues underlying this that I think we as a country need to have a conversion about rather than just the knee-jerk reaction of saying, If we can just take all the guns away, this wont happen.
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-perry-charleston-shooting-accident-due-drug-use-manipulated-obama-ban-guns#sthash.SGVXJbNa.dpuf
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My "WTF?" of the day, Rick Perry calls the SC shootings an "accident??!!??" (Original Post)
Archae
Jun 2015
OP
Gothmog
(145,427 posts)1. Goodhair is an idiot
Archae
(46,340 posts)2. He's a part of a legacy.
Bush
Perry
Abbott
Hopefully they are only a trilogy.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)14. yeah but he does know a LOT about abusing prescription drugs.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)3. Mr Goodhair Brain knows a little about overmedication.
But, not nearly as much as he thinks.
Back to his on the job training.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)4. I'm guessing he meant to say "incident" rather than accident.
Even he's not dumb enough to consider the shooting an accident.
tridim
(45,358 posts)5. Still waiting for just ONE Republican to tell the truth about this issue.
BeeBee
(1,074 posts)6. He has nothing...
so he just makes shit up.
gopiscrap
(23,762 posts)7. what a total fucking moron
either he is a bigger idiot than I thought, or perhaps a callous fucker who panders to the racist crackers who fund his campaign.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)8. Early Alzheimer's?
dgibby
(9,474 posts)9. Well, speaking of people who need to be medicated.....
unfortunately for Perry (and us), there is no cure for stupidity-not even Duct tape can fix that (but it can muffle the sound).
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)10. Oops
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)11. The race for Dumbest of the Dumb in the Klown Bus
is a close one, but Perry is now even with Frothymix Turtlesex at the front of the tightly-spaced pack.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)12. Drives 100 miles, reloads his gun 5 times and tells them he has to do this. An accident. Right.
MineralMan
(146,320 posts)13. "Accident?" Rick Perry is a walking, talking accident.
Let's see to it that he doesn't accidentally become President, shall we?