Posted on 07/24/2015 9:14:39 AM PDT by rickmichaels
'This is an awful night for Lafayette, an awful night for Louisiana, an awful night for the United States,' said Governor, and presidential candidate, Bobby Jindal at the scene of America’s latest mass shooting.
His voice wobbled, his lips trembled and his eyes welled up as he dug deep into the reservoirs of statesmanlike emotion.
'This is a time for us to come together,' he said, 'What we can do now is pray. We can hug these families, shower them with love, thoughts and prayers.'
All fine words, of course.
Exactly what a Governor should say when people in his state have just been murdered and maimed as they watch a movie.
But Jindal’s rhetoric made me want to vomit, coming as they did from a man who’s on record as saying: 'In Louisiana we love us some guns.'
Louisiana is ground zero for America’s gun violence epidemic.
An official report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a year ago revealed that 45 per cent of Louisiana residents have a gun in their homes.
This compares, as the local Louisiana Weekly newspaper pointed out, to 13 per cent for Rhode Island.
The State ranks fifth for weakest gun laws in the country, according to data researched by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Louisiana has twice the national average of gun deaths, with 18 per 100,000 residents. (Rhode Island, again by comparison, has just 3 per 100,000).
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Louisianans support the 2nd amendment and they like to hunt.
The demographics are totally different. And Piers the idiot is probably counting the people shot by police as victims of gun violence.
Pirs, you ignorant slut. Must we summon Mr. Clarkson again to give you a good thrashing ?
“An official report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a year ago revealed that 45 per cent of Louisiana residents have a gun in their homes.”
Why would the CDC have such information?
They’ve been trying to claim that guns are a health hazard for a long time.
Even their own studies fail them, but it makes no difference.
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