Former President George W. Bush’s Senior Advisor Karl Rove told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace that he wished he “had an answer” to this kind of violence, but it was a “racist, bigoted evil … act.”
The attack on a black church in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday by 21-year-old shooter Dylann Storm Roof has renewed the debate over race and gun control, Wallace noted in opening a panel discussion on the program.
Rove defended gun rights, saying “I don’t think it’s an answer” to “remove guns from society.”
In the Charleston church shooting, there were signs that the shooter was planning violence in Internet posts, Rove suggested.
“[A] lot of warning signs … I wish someone would have spoken up” when they saw the warning signs, Rove said.
Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md., said the Charleston attack “did take me back” to the church bombings of the 1960’s. She said the shootings remind the nation that there is “still … a lot of work to do [in the U.S.] on race.”
Dineen Borelli, a Fox News contributor, said: “Our country as a whole is affected by this.” She said it is “amazing to me the level of faith in God” expressed by the victims, “the forgiveness, love and compassion.”
