This week, MSNBC’s resident conspiracy theory enthusiast blamed Republicans’ supposed “gun fetishizing” for all mass shootings.
Gun violence is “a gruesome epidemic that continues with no signs of stopping or even slowing down,” Reid said. “When will this insanity stop? Unfortunately, because of the gun-fetishizing Republicans running so many statehouses, clearly not any time soon.”
She then pointed to Texas, whose State Legislature this week passed a permitless-carry bill, which Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign.
“Just look at Texas,” Reid said. She noted that Abbott even “bragged that he has signed a resolution naming an official state handgun and would sign more gun laws real soon because that’s the priority for the Republican governor and legislators who have now made it harder for adults in Texas to cast a ballot than to carry a handgun.”
This claim that it’s easier to buy a gun than it is to vote in Texas simply isn’t true, but whatever — I’m sure she’ll get it right next time.
“Of course,” Reid continued, referring to Texas’s new bill, “the anti-democracy, Second Amendment fetishists in Congress are all for it. Pretend tough guy [Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas] applauded Texas legislators for passing it. While noted gun fanatic and Q-anon Barbie [Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia] gushed that she’d love to see a similar law back home in already-guns-everywhere in Georgia. Of course, those two are far from the only Republicans pushing their obsession with pushing more guns into more American hands, including the hands of mass-shooters, by the way.”
“But the most bizarre and disturbing example of a willingness to shill for the now Texas-based and financially and morally bankrupt National Rifle Association’s agenda comes from Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy,” she added, “whose new video the NRA said would ‘trigger the libs.’”
In the NRA video, the Louisiana senator is seen saying, “I believe that love is the answer, but you ought to own a handgun just in case.”
“Well, Sen. Kennedy, yeah, we’re triggered,” Reid responded, “and not by your stupid video, which basically promotes guns as a stand-in for having a love interest, and poor spelling. We’re triggered by the continual death that we know is coming because of people like you and your friends who are pushing laws that let any untrained idiot off the street walk around with an unlicensed handgun that they might not even know how to properly use and let’s just hope and pray not kill a bunch of people with it. And for that, the Republicans’ obsession with fetishizing firearms are the absolute worst.”
So, was it this supposed Republican gun fetish that led deranged left-wing activist James Hodgkinson in 2017 to open fire on Republican members of Congress as they practiced for the annual congressional baseball game? He very nearly slaughtered 24 lawmakers in the process. On the bright side, he was a lousy shot — perhaps that lack of training isn’t such a drawback after all.
By the way, Reid used that shooting as an occasion to attack the victim who was critically wounded in it, Republican Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana.
“Rep. #Scalise was shot by a white man with a violent background, and saved by a black lesbian police officer, and yet …” Reid said on social media.
She followed up, later on in her show, saying, “There’s a whole country out there, and a lot of people, at least in my Twitter timeline, and it’s a delicate thing, because everybody is wishing the congressman well and hoping that he recovers, but Steve Scalise has a history that we’ve all been forced to sort of ignore, on race.”
She added, “Because he is in jeopardy and everybody is pulling for him, are we required in a moral sense to put that aside in the moment?”
Yeah, you can tell that Reid is just positively broken up about gun violence, can’t you?
