Posted on 06/14/2016 6:53:09 AM PDT by Cyberman
A former Republican senator is endorsing Hillary Clinton for president after the mass shooting in Orlando, citing her support for gun control.
Former Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) called for universal background checks on all gun sales and an assault weapons ban Monday in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
"I can't believe I'm endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, but I am," said Pressler, who spoke with The Hill on Monday after endorsing Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, in a statement issued over the weekend....
He said he feels disenfranchised by Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, and modern-day congressional Republicans who have opposed efforts to expand background checks for gun sales.
"We need to go the route of more gun control as a result of Orlando and all the other shootings that have occurred," Pressler said. "But it's almost as though Republicans are saying gun control shouldn't be part of the conversation at all."
But gun control isn't the only reason why Pressler is ready to join "Republicans for Clinton" — he's also concerned about Trump's rhetoric on Muslims.
"This election is starting to sound like the German elections in [the late 1920s]," Pressler said. "This is a very dangerous national conversation we're slipping into."
Pressler, a Mormon Sunday school teacher, said he understands all too well the dangers of singling out a particular religious group.
In 1838, Missouri Gov. Lilburn Boggs ordered Mormons to be killed, which forced many to leave the state before eventually resettling in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Trump makes "Mormons very nervous," Pressler said....
The Republican Party can do without fuzzy thinkers.
Another example of why turds float.
Coddle ISIS Molsem sympathizers, disarm the citizens. What could go wrong?
Were the Jews of 1920s Germany attacking nightclubs?
No?
Then this guy is a total idiot.
This doesn’t even rate an “article” - unless the liberal media likes it because it fits their narrative.
I’ve never been anti-Mormon but between Romney and this guy, I’m getting there.
This guy even gives RINO's a bad name.....
Did the Nazis advocate gun control?
Yes?
Then this guy is a total idiot.
Another quisling of which Samuel Adams spoke:
“If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
Marteen was checked out FULLY by a background check and the FBI.
I can see why he is a “former” GOP Senator.
You really can’t fix stupid. This Romneybot is a prime example.
Sam gets my vote.
Orlando omar passed his background check despite having been on the FBI's watch list, despite having traveled to Saudi, the beating heart of wahhabism, despite having told his coworkers he wanted to kill Americans, despite going to Afghanistan for weapons raining.
Passed with flying colors, all red flags.
He wants more checks? What's that definition of insanity?
Another GOOBer comes out of the closet against the Bill of Rights. Somebody needs to ask this useless turd why “gun control” didn’t work in Paris.
There are people who insist they were.
“Mr. & Mrs. America, turn in your guns and learn to trust Muslims!”
Obama & Hillary’s message, boiled down.
Mormons with brains (such as Sen. Mike Lee) have no problem distinguishing between importing an alien anti-American culture such as Syrian ISIS and Al Qaida sympathizers and people who want to contribute to and enrich the American fabric such as the large crop of Mormon immigrants which arrived from places like England, Scotland, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Sweden, etc. beginning in 1836.
To equate the two is the mental exercise of a moron, not a Mormon.
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