Spare me your crocodile tears, Governor Jindal

[dutch508]

damnedifIknow (2,777 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027009083

Spare me your crocodile tears, Governor Jindal, you've got the blood from this massacre all over you


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.

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.


This is the second-highest rate in America.

After the hideous annihilation of 20 children in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, more than 100 new gun laws were passed by state legislatures.

But Louisiana actually LOOSENED restrictions on guns, making it easier for people who wanted to carry concealed weapons to stay anonymous.

Jindal is primarily responsible for all this.

This is a guy awarded an A+ rating from the NRA – meaning they absolutely love him for his pro-gun speeches and legislative behavior.

*What happened in his state last night is what happens when the people charged with governing a state fail in their central duty to protect their citizens.

So spare me all your crocodile tears, Governor.

You’ve got the blood of those victims all over your A-star-rated, NRA-loving, 'we love us some guns in Louisiana' hands."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3173327/PIERS-MORGAN-Spare-crocodile-tears-Governor-Jindal-ve-got-blood-massacre-NRA-approved-hands.html

Of course.... the shooter was from Alabama. Guy didn't have a concealed permit. Dude shouldn't have been able to buy a gun with the existing laws. So--- how is that Jindal's fault? Oh... right. He's a Republican.

Nuclear Unicorn (16,210 posts)
2. Chicago is a city of 9 million in a nation of 330 million or 2.7% of the total US population

In 2012 it had over 500 gun homicides of the total 11,000 nationwide or 4.5% of the nation's gun homicides. In other words it had nearly double the gun homicide rate in spite of the fact its laws imposed a near total prohibition on gun ownership.

Houser was not legally allowed to own a gun. Prohibitions do not work.

True Blue American (29 posts)
5. Houser Was Refused

A Gun license in Georgia because his history showed a record of Domestic abuse. He was able to buy one legally in Alabama from a Pawn Shop.

Houser admired Westboro Church. His Internet writings are full of hate and rage. A Right Winger whose family was trying to have him committed.

The jury is still out on the legality of his purchase in Georgia, by the way. Oh--- the Westboro baptist is a Democratic church.

gordianot (8,771 posts)
7. Jindal owns a piece of this action.

What happens when you court the angry and violent and something comes out with teeth.

But Barry isn't responsible for anything his administration has done.... or failed to do.

ellennelle (252 posts)
24. except...he bought the gun in AL.

Yup. Phenix City, AL, to be exact.

Skittles (101,130 posts)
32. WHO CARES? the point is THEY LOVES THEM SOME GUNS, then get all crocodile-teary when they're actually USED

No one needs facts.

[SVPete]

Of course.... the shooter was from Alabama. Guy didn't have a concealed permit. Dude shouldn't have been able to buy a gun with the existing laws. So--- how is that Jindal's fault? Oh... right. He's a Republican.

And the movie theater was a "gun free zone" ... until Houser broke that law as well.

DU-folk - and other gun-grabbers - dare not ask themselves: how is it that all these murderers manage to commit murder despite all these magically effective anti-gun laws?

Could it be that their gun "control" laws are intrinsically ineffective?

Could it be that disarming law-abiding citizens makes murder and crime rates worse?

Could it be that the problem is not the inanimate symbol, the gun, but the hearts of the murderers (whom many gun-grabbers view as victims of society)?

[Carl]

Then Barry is criminally responsible for every evil act a muzzie butcher or an illegal alien does.
He will be locked away for eternity.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Jindal doesn't have to "own" this.

DUmmies are a sick bunch of ****ing ghouls.

[I_B_Perky]

And the movie theater was a "gun free zone" ... until Houser broke that law as well.

DU-folk - and other gun-grabbers - dare not ask themselves: how is it that all these murderers manage to commit murder despite all these magically effective anti-gun laws?

Could it be that their gun "control" laws are intrinsically ineffective?

Could it be that disarming law-abiding citizens makes murder and crime rates worse?

Could it be that the problem is not the inanimate symbol, the gun, but the hearts of the murderers (whom many gun-grabbers view as victims of society)?

A different question needs to be asked about these incidents:

Why are these incidents happening in the first place? 

The Answer:

Because the media gives extensive coverage to any nut that does things like this. This, in turn, inspires other nuts. From teens with hormones raging to grown nuts, they see the coverage the murders get and aspire to do the same.  Quit giving extensive coverage, and odds are the nuts will never think about doing it in the first place.

The MSM wants these incidents to happen for the simple reason they support the gun grabbing agenda of the dems. 

[Aristotelian]

Louisiana has twice the national average of gun deaths, with 18 per 100,000 residents.

What a scary sounding statistic...clearly demonstrates that Louisiana's gun laws are to blame.

It does, however, raise two questions in my mind:

first, what proportion of those were in New Orleans?
second, does Nwe Orleans have its own regulations on firearms?

[thundley4]

What a scary sounding statistic...clearly demonstrates that Louisiana's gun laws are to blame.

It does, however, raise two questions in my mind:

first, what proportion of those were in New Orleans?
second, does Nwe Orleans have its own regulations on firearms?

New Orleans: Gun homicides per 100,000 people: 27.7

[J P Sousa]

  California has a higher murder rate than a lot of other states, and the Brady Campaign To End Gun Violence has said it has the best gun control laws in the entire country. 
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-is-the-murder-rate-high-in-louisiana-2013-9

Yeah, we need more gun laws that criminals can ignore. 

Louisiana's demographics may also play into its high murder rate. Its population is more than 32% black, compared to a national average of 13%, and blacks are the most frequent victims of gun violence in America.   

  Two Louisiana cities, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, made our list of America's most dangerous cities.   

In New Orleans, blacks make up 60% of the population.
Black on black crime again.

[FiddyBeowulf]

Louisiana's demographics may also play into its high murder rate. Its population is more than 32% black, compared to a national average of 13%, and blacks are the most frequent victims of gun violence in America.

Black lives matter....except the ones that make up crime statistics.

[Aristotelian]

New Orleans: Gun homicides per 100,000 people: 27.7

Oh my, I'm shocked, say it ain't so.

[Lacarnut]

Oh my, I'm shocked, say it ain't so.

Jindal has been a lousy Gov. IMO but he bears zero responsibility for this incident. The only reason this made headline news is that he is running for Prez.  Had this happened in a liberal sh!thole city such as Chicago, L.A., Detroit, etc, this would be a non event on the boob tube and buried on page 21 of section C of the newspaper.