Considering the situation I'm glad I did. Your hear a man telling children everything is going to be OK and shielding one of them with his body.
If that's not bravery I don't know what the fuck it is.
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Texas: Midland/Odessa shooter dead, 28 shot and 7 killed
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Considering the situation I'm glad I did. Your hear a man telling children everything is going to be OK and shielding one of them with his body.
If that's not bravery I don't know what the fuck it is.
Honestly. He should just go up to Mitch and punch him in the face.
User Banned (1 Week): Inflammatory Commentary Surrounding Gun Violence
Representative Matt Schaefer
"Do something!" is the statement we keep hearing. As an elected official with a vote in Austin, let me tell you what I am NOT going to do. I am NOT going to use the evil acts of a handful of people to diminish the God-given rights of my fellow Texans. Period. None of these so-called gun-control solutions will work to stop a person with evil intent. I say NO to "red flag" pre-crime laws. NO to universal background checks. NO to bans on AR-15s, or high capacity magazines. NO to mandatory gun buybacks. What can we do? YES to praying for victims. YES to praying for protection. YES to praying that God would transform the hearts of people with evil intent. YES to fathers not leaving their wives and children. YES to discipline in the homes. YES to supporting our public schools. YES to giving every law-abiding single mom the right to carry a handgun to protect her and her kids without permission from the state, and the same for all other law-abiding Texans of age. YES to your God-given, constitutionally protected rights. YES to God, and NO to more government intrusions.
HOLY SHIT! That guy deserves to be a victim of one of these shootings. Let's see how long he holds those beliefs then
Just remember Americans this is what you'll be remember for for generations to come post-WW2.
You aren't war torn like some of the globe so why isn't your elected government protecting you? Why is this the new normal? Why are the lies and the deflections accepted so readily?
So angry that how twisted you have allowed civilisation to devolve.
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You aren't war torn like some of the globe so why isn't your elected government protecting you? Why is this the new normal? Why are the lies and the deflections accepted so readily?
So angry that how twisted you have allowed civilisation to devolve.
ps3ud0 8)
In Texas, Santa Fe High School shooting victims still defended guns after dodging bullets. The families there said they would hate for the incident at their school to be used to prevent innocent people from owning their guns and they thought current gun ownership laws had nothing to do with the tragedy.
I spent 28 years in Texas and I just left, partially to get away from the obscenely ill denial people are living in there, including on issues like gun safety. If you have a problem with guns in Texas, you are the minority that is expected to keep quiet.
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I dont think im going to the minor league game tomorrow. I legit dont feel safe when within 24 hours of one of these happening
I dont think im going to the minor league game tomorrow. I legit dont feel safe when within 24 hours of one of these happening
That's really sick and sad for their kids who need to learn that fucked up philosophy from them.
I guess most of them are religious fundamentalists too, right?
Oh definitely. Being an atheist in Texas is definitely being in the minority.
Representative Matt Schaefer
"Do something!" is the statement we keep hearing. As an elected official with a vote in Austin, let me tell you what I am NOT going to do. I am NOT going to use the evil acts of a handful of people to diminish the God-given rights of my fellow Texans. Period. None of these so-called gun-control solutions will work to stop a person with evil intent. I say NO to "red flag" pre-crime laws. NO to universal background checks. NO to bans on AR-15s, or high capacity magazines. NO to mandatory gun buybacks. What can we do? YES to praying for victims. YES to praying for protection. YES to praying that God would transform the hearts of people with evil intent. YES to fathers not leaving their wives and children. YES to discipline in the homes. YES to supporting our public schools. YES to giving every law-abiding single mom the right to carry a handgun to protect her and her kids without permission from the state, and the same for all other law-abiding Texans of age. YES to your God-given, constitutionally protected rights. YES to God, and NO to more government intrusions.
This is so sad. Not a single care for human. life. 😢
Fuck this piece of shit. God given right? Fuck off. This infuriates me. What a pos
They are cult levels of indoctrination. Won't change their minds.
Representative Matt Schaefer
"Do something!" is the statement we keep hearing. As an elected official with a vote in Austin, let me tell you what I am NOT going to do. I am NOT going to use the evil acts of a handful of people to diminish the God-given rights of my fellow Texans. Period. None of these so-called gun-control solutions will work to stop a person with evil intent. I say NO to "red flag" pre-crime laws. NO to universal background checks. NO to bans on AR-15s, or high capacity magazines. NO to mandatory gun buybacks. What can we do? YES to praying for victims. YES to praying for protection. YES to praying that God would transform the hearts of people with evil intent. YES to fathers not leaving their wives and children. YES to discipline in the homes. YES to supporting our public schools. YES to giving every law-abiding single mom the right to carry a handgun to protect her and her kids without permission from the state, and the same for all other law-abiding Texans of age. YES to your God-given, constitutionally protected rights. YES to God, and NO to more government intrusions.
This guy is a mindless conservative zombie.
Not getting a ton of play online and in the news. I guess 5 dead isnt enough anymore. Need a higher body count for media vultures.
Yes... my brother saw a pickup this week that said something to the effect of "the only two forces who have put their life on the line for your freedom are Jesus and the American soldier." I shit you not.
I think the notion is stupid, but I don't see how that bumper sticker reinforces it. Seems like a reference to his death on the cross.
I went to his page because I don't have facebook and this gem is not being talked about at all. I guess we should replace our police with preachers and that'd solve our issues. Wouldn't be that bad. It's basically moving to a theocracy like Star Wars and their Jedi.
Representative Matt Schaefer
"Do something!" is the statement we keep hearing. As an elected official with a vote in Austin, let me tell you what I am NOT going to do. I am NOT going to use the evil acts of a handful of people to diminish the God-given rights of my fellow Texans. Period. None of these so-called gun-control solutions will work to stop a person with evil intent. I say NO to "red flag" pre-crime laws. NO to universal background checks. NO to bans on AR-15s, or high capacity magazines. NO to mandatory gun buybacks. What can we do? YES to praying for victims. YES to praying for protection. YES to praying that God would transform the hearts of people with evil intent. YES to fathers not leaving their wives and children. YES to discipline in the homes. YES to supporting our public schools. YES to giving every law-abiding single mom the right to carry a handgun to protect her and her kids without permission from the state, and the same for all other law-abiding Texans of age. YES to your God-given, constitutionally protected rights. YES to God, and NO to more government intrusions.
This kind of stupidity needs to be blasted on the news. He should be "ratioed" on national television so people could actually challenge his stupid ideas.
Christians have never hurt or killed anyone. They are 100% atrocity free, so what he says checks out.
Representative Matt Schaefer
"Do something!" is the statement we keep hearing. As an elected official with a vote in Austin, let me tell you what I am NOT going to do. I am NOT going to use the evil acts of a handful of people to diminish the God-given rights of my fellow Texans. Period. None of these so-called gun-control solutions will work to stop a person with evil intent. I say NO to "red flag" pre-crime laws. NO to universal background checks. NO to bans on AR-15s, or high capacity magazines. NO to mandatory gun buybacks. What can we do? YES to praying for victims. YES to praying for protection. YES to praying that God would transform the hearts of people with evil intent. YES to fathers not leaving their wives and children. YES to discipline in the homes. YES to supporting our public schools. YES to giving every law-abiding single mom the right to carry a handgun to protect her and her kids without permission from the state, and the same for all other law-abiding Texans of age. YES to your God-given, constitutionally protected rights. YES to God, and NO to more government intrusions.
Seems pretty obvious to me that if this God of yours exists, he doesn't give a shit. Your prayers are worth less than my farts.
Sad to say it's more newsworthy when you have a week without mass murder...
Newspapers aren't there to notify you of the norm.
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For Fucks Sake America. 5 million whining NRA members vs. 322 million citizens. Your prayers let you down. Your government lets you down. Your boycott of THQ Nordic lets you down. Get real, quit your bullshit, and confiscate those guns!
You have to factor in that america has never settled its civil war. Millions of people are terrified of minorities and their own shadows.
Guns = law and order = protecting yourself from ms13/crips. Even tho u live at the intersection of Mother of Pearl and Privilege lane.
At the current rate, which is not factoring in the increasing trend of frequency, that'll only be 5,600+ more mass shootings until something is done.
Representative Matt Schaefer
"Do something!" is the statement we keep hearing. As an elected official with a vote in Austin, let me tell you what I am NOT going to do. I am NOT going to use the evil acts of a handful of people to diminish the God-given rights of my fellow Texans. Period. None of these so-called gun-control solutions will work to stop a person with evil intent. I say NO to "red flag" pre-crime laws. NO to universal background checks. NO to bans on AR-15s, or high capacity magazines. NO to mandatory gun buybacks. What can we do? YES to praying for victims. YES to praying for protection. YES to praying that God would transform the hearts of people with evil intent. YES to fathers not leaving their wives and children. YES to discipline in the homes. YES to supporting our public schools. YES to giving every law-abiding single mom the right to carry a handgun to protect her and her kids without permission from the state, and the same for all other law-abiding Texans of age. YES to your God-given, constitutionally protected rights. YES to God, and NO to more government intrusions.
...Gonna need someone to point me to where I can find a mention of guns in the Bible. I have a couple lying around here, and while I haven't read ALL of it...I don't remember seeing anything like that. Someone halp!!!
In those days most towns required you to check your guns at the sheriff's office. They had stricter gun control laws than we do now.
I dont think it really matters anymore. If its white supremacy. It wont be.
If its anything else. The conservative cycle will transmorph it into anything else besides guns.
So tired of all this.
No. He knows exactly the power he wields, how to do it most effectively, and that it can be wielded against him should he not misuse it.
100% the GOP way now.
From reading around, apparently Democrats didn't even run anyone against that piece of shit. Yet an Independent managed to get 24% of the vote. I think it's inexcusable for Dems to not at least run someone against people who're as damaging as Schaefer is to this country.
Seems a bit disrespectful to use this to springboard your weird distaste for not buying games from a videogame company but ok
Vaughn Hillyard @VaughnHillyard
In ongoing press conference: Odessa PD says there are 7 dead & 22 injured. The law enforcement agencies involved are not releasing the name of the gunman at this time.
1:34 PM - Sep 1, 2019 · Texas, USA
CBS News @CBSNews
Odessa police chief refuses to publicly name the suspect for Saturday's mass shooting: "I'm not going to give him any notoriety for what he did" http://cbsnews.com/live
1:33 PM - Sep 1, 2019
Shimon Prokupecz @ShimonPro
Of the seven people who were killed, they range between 15 and 57-years old.
1:34 PM - Sep 1, 2019
In ongoing press conference: Odessa PD says there are 7 dead & 22 injured. The law enforcement agencies involved are not releasing the name of the gunman at this time.
1:34 PM - Sep 1, 2019 · Texas, USA
CBS News @CBSNews
Odessa police chief refuses to publicly name the suspect for Saturday's mass shooting: "I'm not going to give him any notoriety for what he did" http://cbsnews.com/live
1:33 PM - Sep 1, 2019
Shimon Prokupecz @ShimonPro
Of the seven people who were killed, they range between 15 and 57-years old.
1:34 PM - Sep 1, 2019
BuzzFeed News @BuzzFeedNews
17-month-old Anderson Davis is recovering after being shot in the face during the highway shooting in west Texas that left 7 people deadhttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/baby-shot-face-odessa-shooting?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
1:07 PM - Sep 1, 2019
17-month-old Anderson Davis is recovering after being shot in the face during the highway shooting in west Texas that left 7 people deadhttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/baby-shot-face-odessa-shooting?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
1:07 PM - Sep 1, 2019
The guy is a fucking robot, no wonder his tweets all read some random generated shit. Fuck him
Fuck this guy. You know who was more devout than 99% of Americans. The BTK strangler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rader
Religion being the answer is fucking laughable. Thinking that god has a master plan in a world where babies are shot in the face and children are killed at schools is also laughable.
Eventually it will be public record, he just didn't want to do it in the press statement.
A lot of people own guns and then buy more guns to protect their guns. Having their guns taken away is just as good an excuse to shoot someone as any. Factor in that a lot of law enforcement officers would likely refuse to confiscate guns, either on principle or because they don't want to be shot, and you've got a shitstorm.
White republican terrorist. Calling it now.
If it was brown person they would have photos and family statements all over the place already.
His district is in one of the darkest red pockets of the country; even with Texas rocketing towards purple he's safe with a D challenger only getting 10-15% or some such more than the indy.
Unless he's chastised by state GOP into resigning, he's there as a bomb-throwing shithead till he decides different (and with how bad the TX GOP has shown themselves as the shit gets real for them, the former is not likely).
It also plays into their Fantasy Fears of shadowy evil government (a real one they've already tried to put in) taking their guns and, I dunno, turning Gay Rays on their children or somesuch.
The NRA is dying, and that's the lynchpin of this madness; once they're exposed for what they are proper gun strategy will get much easier.
I was pleased to see in local news (Finland) how the news anchor started with mentioning the perp being white male. This usually doesn't happen, while people being immigrants/refugees is always mentioned, like in the Lyon knife attack that was reported just before this incident.
The fuck, god gave the right for firearms? Are we sure they have been asked? They certainly didn't create them. Dude's a nutter.
Representative Matt Schaefer
"Do something!" is the statement we keep hearing. As an elected official with a vote in Austin, let me tell you what I am NOT going to do. I am NOT going to use the evil acts of a handful of people to diminish the God-given rights of my fellow Texans. Period. None of these so-called gun-control solutions will work to stop a person with evil intent. I say NO to "red flag" pre-crime laws. NO to universal background checks. NO to bans on AR-15s, or high capacity magazines. NO to mandatory gun buybacks. What can we do? YES to praying for victims. YES to praying for protection. YES to praying that God would transform the hearts of people with evil intent. YES to fathers not leaving their wives and children. YES to discipline in the homes. YES to supporting our public schools. YES to giving every law-abiding single mom the right to carry a handgun to protect her and her kids without permission from the state, and the same for all other law-abiding Texans of age. YES to your God-given, constitutionally protected rights. YES to God, and NO to more government intrusions.
The fuck, god gave the right for firearms? Are we sure they have been asked? They certainly didn't create them. Dude's a nutter.
Indys get higher numbers than Dems in ruby red districts and Republicans in sapphire blue districts. A Dem running in that district would just split what the indy is getting. Maybe scrape up a couple more points from the few people who would vote for a Democrat but not against a Republican in that district, but would still come in with fewer points than the Indy has now.