I’ll take more guns and less people making money selling books & peddling useless, amateurish philosophy. @DeepakChopra
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Dr. Schadenfreude (@PoliticsOfFear) August 06, 2012The blood at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., was barely dry before Deepak Chopra began using the tragic loss of six lives to feed his gun-grabbing agenda.
Guns do not belong in a civil society—
Deepak Chopra (@DeepakChopra) August 06, 2012
Ah. We see Chopra is branching out from pseudoscientific quantum quackery to ignorant leftist crankery. The conservative Twitterverse slammed the “poet-prophet of alternative medicine” for drooling out a liberal gun control platitude just hours after the deadly shooting.
You know what else doesn't belong in a civil society? Self righteous hypocrites that peddle bullshit self help books. @deepakchopra—
Ryan (@RJF_723) August 06, 2012
But lying hacks that bilk ppl out of $ through spiritual self help schemes are OK. RT @DeepakChopra: Guns do not belong in a civil society—
(@hipstervative) August 06, 2012
Neither do bullshit artists. RT @DeepakChopra: Guns do not belong in a civil society—
(@gbernsie) August 06, 2012
No, con-men "spiritualists" don't. #Caring RT @DeepakChopra Guns do not belong in a civil society—
Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) August 06, 2012
@RBPundit Can't blame @DeepakChopra He saw a tragedy and figured he couldn't let it go to waste. Maybe he can parlay tweets to a TV deal.—
Daniel LaMalfa (@cbyfrmhll) August 06, 2012
Chopra didn’t stop at just one tweet.
Gun control laws enacted in Australia in 1996 have reduced gun violence to record lows .—
Deepak Chopra (@DeepakChopra) August 06, 2012
Golly, Australia sounds swell, what with no pesky Second Amendment to get in the way of disarming the people.
Or not.
Hi @deepakchopra , you state gun control has been a success in Australia. How do you explain the 42.2% increase in violent crime in AU?—
Jason B. Whitman (@JasonBWhitman) August 06, 2012
Why does Australia have triple our rape rate? bit.ly/Rr8r4K RT @DeepakChopra Gun control laws enacted in Australia in 1996…—
Sean D Sorrentino (@sdsorrentino) August 06, 2012
@DeepakChopra @akeigwin Really? What about all the other kinds of violence? Australian gov says violence has gone up. aic.gov.au/statistics/vio…—
Russ (@RDS_) August 06, 2012
Chopra eventually got around to grieving instead of simply politicizing.
My wife comes from a Sikh family, the ethnic group targeted in the gun violence in Wisconsin. We grieve with all those affected—
Deepak Chopra (@DeepakChopra) August 06, 2012
But, really it’s all about the energy, man.
Violence is the shadow energy of shame & impotence—
Deepak Chopra (@DeepakChopra) August 06, 2012
Guns don’t kill people, the shadow energy of shame and impotence kills people?
Hours later he’s still at it.
The only use of a gun is to kill—
Deepak Chopra (@DeepakChopra) August 06, 2012
Oh, man. Somebody better break the news to the Olympic skeet shooters and trap shooters, not to mention the countless women and men who use firearms to deter assailants every hour of every day. Maybe he can let them know on Piers Morgan’s CNN show tonight:
Will be on CNN @piersmorgan discussing gun control.—
Deepak Chopra (@DeepakChopra) August 06, 2012
Evidently Morgan and Chopra will do their best to out-ghoul one another.
Another day, another gun massacre in America with a legally-owned firearm. So horribly predictable and depressing. #Wisconsin #Sikh—
Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 06, 2012
Why was an unhinged skinhead white supremacist ALLOWED to own a gun?
Those poor Sikh temple victims deserve answers. CNN 9pm/ET #Wisconsin—
Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 06, 2012
And before the pro-gun lobby scream 'Too soon to talk about gun control' – let me remind them it's been 17 days since the Aurora massacre.—
Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 06, 2012
Presidents shot, Congresswomen shot, Beatles' stars shot, movie-goers shot, temple-users shot. Where does it end?
Who will at least try?—
Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 06, 2012
Some politician in America will come out soon and say, 'If those Sikhs had all been armed with guns in their temple, they'd be alive.'—
Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 06, 2012
And gun sales will rocket in #Wisconsin over the next fortnight. Who has the courage to end this cycle of deadly madness? #Sikh—
Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 06, 2012
Does Deepak Chopra have the “courage to try”? That all depends on the current state of the thermodynamic inclines.
Life and love are thermodynamically uphill #CosmicConsciousness—
Deepak Chopra (@DeepakChopra) August 06, 2012