Posted on 10/22/2018 2:26:07 PM PDT by Ennis85
Not long ago Republican Phil Scott was one of the most popular governors in America, poised for a comfortable re-election in November. Then, after a possible school shooting was discovered by police in Vermont, he decided to support sweeping gun-control legislation - and has reaped a political whirlwind.
The Vermont governor stands at a lectern in front of the state capitol building in Montpelier on a grey, blustery April day earlier this year. His wife and various politicians, officials and dignitaries stand behind him. Before him, a motley crowd. Some are cheering; others are angry - and loud.
He's talking about gun control, a subject that touches raw nerves across the US, even in serene, bucolic Vermont. Perhaps especially in Vermont.
"On February 16," he begins to a crescendo of jeers, "I was in my office preparing for the day ahead, when everything changed."
He relates how he received an affidavit that morning detailing the arrest of 18-year-old Jack Sawyer, who law enforcement officials said was in the midst of plotting a mass shooting at a high school in Fair Haven, a small town in the western part of the state.
A friend of Sawyer's had informed police of his plans - and how he praised the attack at a high school in Parkland, Florida, that claimed the lives of 17 students and teachers just days earlier.
"That's fantastic," he texted her. "I 100 percent support it." He called the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre - which shocked the American public and prompted teen-led anti-gun protests across the nation - "natural selection taken up a notch".
Mass shootings in America
The police searched Sawyer's car and found a shotgun, ammunition, a gas mask and books on the 1999 high school shooting in Columbine, Colorado,
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Taking away the right of the law abiding will NOT protect you from the non law abiding.
“He’s talking about gun control, a subject that touches raw nerves across the US, even in serene, bucolic Vermont. Perhaps especially in Vermont.”
“Serene, bucolic” - read rural.
Of course people will want the right to have guns for protection.
Banks.................protected by guns.
Cops......................by guns.
Politicians........... armed guards.
ANYWHERE there is lots of$$$$$$$...........LOTSA guards and guns.
.............our KIDS...IN SCHOOLS...............
................Naaaaaaaaaaah. Not so much. Guns are ickey, after all. Gutmenschen don’t like them.
Reading through the article, there did not appear to be any mention whatsoever of Vermont for all of those years being one of the areas of the United States having the most casual or permissive states pertaining to firearms laws, yet being one of the least violent. This sort of dishonesty is likely not that terribly surprising from the BBC or other media outlets, but still worth pointing out.
From the people who need a license to buy a butter knife because of immigration.
The question that will get them in their tracks:
How long would slavery lasted in the US had the slaves been armed????
One would expect the idiot Brits, living as helpless sheep in a cage populated by savage third world worlders, would applause this idiot.
I hope he loses. We can spare a governor.
Every year, England proves that America was founded by the best they had!
RIP Britannia!
Good thing he’s running against a tranny or he would have been booted out.
“During a governor’s debate in Rutland two weeks ago, Mr Scott frequently came down on the liberal side of hot-button national political issues.
He said manmade climate change was real - and governments should take action. He expressed support for a Medicare-for-all universal government healthcare system. He spoke of the benefits of immigration.”
So the choice there is between a turncoat liberal RINO and a leftist tranny. Sounds like California.
Not long ago Republican Phil Scott was one of the most popular governors in America
Stopped reading right there. Scott is indistinguishable from a prog leftist.
when I was in school and when I taught school kids had their hunting rifles hanging on a rack on the rear window of their pickup out in the school parking lot. A lunch time you could see them sitting on the tailgate of trucks showing them to their buddies.
a dozen replies so far and NOT ONE person has commented about the obvious stupidity of this article.
GOV PHIL SCOTT ???
HIS NAME IS RICK SCOTT.... WHAT A MORON !
One guy; and it’s a news story?
Any politician who can be so easily manipulated does not deserve our support. Being a leader requires a bit of fortitude and critical thinking. Absent that, they are worthless.
“Not long ago Republican Phil Scott was one of the most popular governors in America,”
I am not from VT but I am American and have never even heard of Phil Scott. I lived in MA until 2008, too.
It doesn’t surprise me that Left loons would be popular in New England though.
Time for your meds? You are yelling. (And confused).
“Philip Brian Scott is an American entrepreneur and politician serving as the 82nd and current Governor of Vermont since 2017.”
One of many worthless politicians.
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