Well, that didn’t take long. Just as we saw in the wake of the tragic shootings in Aurora, Colorado, and Oak Creek, Wisconsin, the Left is seizing today’s shooting near Texas A&M to push for stricter gun control laws:
@weywerdSun CNN reporting another shooting, near Texas A&M. How many? One a week? Two a week? How many til people DEMAND gun control?
— Barb #WhoWasThatMaskedMan (@barb_hill) August 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/HumanClouds/status/235084839454384128
https://twitter.com/Clare_OC/status/235084006121676801
https://twitter.com/Zael77/status/235084867686240257
How many shootings have to happen before we start taking gun control seriously? Prayers with Texas A&M
— Lorena O'Neil (@lorenaoneil) August 13, 2012
Now a shootout at Texas A&M. WTF is wrong with ppl?! Do we need more dead bodies to propose tighter gun control laws? http://t.co/6IcchB39
— Bindu Rai (@BinduRai) August 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/zacksigel/status/235085183513137152
https://twitter.com/Tomcatchisel/status/235089060010528769
Really!! AGAIN!? Shootings at Texas A&M campus. Come on now!!!! This is too much! Bring on Gun Control Laws already!!!!
— Raj Jhaveri (@rajpjhaveri) August 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/ReeceZakarin/status/235075845662838784
Reports of a shooting with fatalities at A&M university in Texas. Another tragedy but NRA & the ‘right to bear arms’ won’t be challenged
— Paolo Ciarrocca (@sherred) August 13, 2012
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Shameless and disgusting.
Citizens in favor of the right to bear arms countered the liberal anti-gun feeding frenzy:
Aurora, Wisconsin, and now TX A&M. I guess I need to learn how to protect my family. Who wants to teach me the way of the gun? @gawilkey ?
— Michael Nipp (@TheMichaelNipp) August 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/sportsbar_belle/status/235080741065740288
Arm the students! 'Multiple casualties' reported as gunman opens fire near Texas A&M campus http://t.co/WBxDLVLU #p2 #NRA
— Antonia Zerbisias (@AntoniaZ) August 13, 2012
Why do libs use every random shooting as an excuse for gun control like at Texas A&M. I don't use every lib as a reason to support abortion.
— Flowerbomb (@FL0WERB0MB) August 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/MmmMarshmallows/status/235083000193359872
https://twitter.com/katytx77/status/235089170014560256
https://twitter.com/LL_Cool_Jeff/status/235092426098872320
https://twitter.com/chelseagrunwald/status/235092401797083137
When will liberals learn that it’s possible to confront a horrific event and mourn the loss of life without politicizing? In responding to this shooting and so many others in this way, the Left disgraces itself and belittles the victims and their loved ones. There is a time for gun policy discussion; this isn’t it. To the Left, the Texas A&M shooting is but a means to an end: revoking our Constitutional right to defend ourselves. Exploiting tragedies does nothing to help liberals’ cause; it only exposes their desperation and refusal to view people as more than political tools. Gun control is indeed just about control, the defense of life be damned.
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Ed. note: Though we stated in this post and here that the shooting did not, in fact, take place on the Texas A&M campus, our original headline referring to today’s event as the “Texas A&M shooting” may have been misleading to our readers. We apologize for any confusion and have updated the headline accordingly.
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