Posted on 03/15/2019 5:54:54 AM PDT by Raebie
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez(D-N.Y.) on Friday tore into the National Rifle Association after at least one gunman opened fire at two New Zealand mosques, leaving at least 49 people dead.
The New York lawmaker condemned the fatal attack on Twitter, focusing her message on the American gun group.
“At 1st I thought of saying, “Imagine being told your house of faith isn’t safe anymore. But I couldn’t say ‘imagine,’” the lawmaker wrote, citing the deadly shootings at a Charleston, S.C. church, a Pittsburgh, Penn., synagogue and a Sutherland Springs, Texas church.
“What good are your thoughts & prayers when they don’t even keep the pews safe?” She added.
Ocasio-Cortez noted that “thoughts and prayers” is a reference to the NRA phrase she says is “used to deflect conversation away from policy change during tragedies.”
That train left several minutes ago...
(population nearly 5m now) meaning a little over 5% are licensed gun owners (regulate owners rather than guns there -Red Flags???) and it still happened.
The US has approx. 43% gun ownership. (Would be more if it weren’t for all those boating accidents)
We need more guns banned. I thought guns were banned in NZ?
*** AOC has something to say about everything.
She is eventually going to test the limits of the saying, “There is no such thing as bad publicity.” ***
And that is the beauty of being a celebrated liberal. The media is giving her the Obama treatment. Everything she says is put through the Obama cycle... the really stupid stuff is ignored, the semi stupid stuff is massaged and given “context” so it seems almost rational, any accidental spew that makes sense is given high praise and airtime.
I hate her, I hate them. Yes, hate.
AOC has transcended mere descriptions of obnoxious & disgusting .... she’s well & truly living in a state of “vile”.
Muslims do not belong in New Zealand...or Australia or the United States, or or anywhere actually.
Funny how AOC and the rest of the athiestic Communists are all for “Thoughts and Prayers” when it suits their goals.
Otherwise, not so much.
Fifty Coptic Christians are burned to death in their own church by Muslim rioters.
“Dog bites man” - not a story, not even a blip.
Fifty Muslims are gunned down in their mosques by a certifiable madman.
“Man bites dog!!!”
“Stop the presses! Total lockdown!! It’s all Trump’s fault!! Seize all the guns NOW!!!”
“Molon labe, bitch!”
She probably believes New Zealand is a part of northern Texas.
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New Jersey
New Mexico
New Zealand
3 of our 57 states.
Better yet, imagine being on an airplane that is headed directly into a building, or the elevator you are taking up to work isn’t going to be coming back down. How about flames getting ready to consume you and there is no way out but to jump to your death.
I was amazed this morning when Fox referred to the New Zealand mosque shootings as an “unprecedented” terrorist attack. (This was a horrible event but not unprecedented, prayers for the victims)
Muslims around the world pray for our annihilation every day.
Doubt it. Thought they only had space to slap rugs down on the floors. They might have chairs in some rooms.
If Allah is so wonderful why isn’t the middle east?
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Chinese people after the massacre of 60 million during the socialist terror of AOC’s friend Chairman Mao.
At least the NRA is capable of having thoughts.
Were they illegals? Welfare recipients? Exclusively Spanish-speaking?
The growth of an Anglophone population in an Anglophone nation where the vast majority of adults have on-the-books jobs isn't a problem. This is.
The bigger question... does she realize that New Zealand is not even in the same hemisphere as the USA?
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