With speeches like the annual State of the Union address, it’s difficult for President Trump to make everyone happy.
Of course, gun control advocates are crying foul because Trump had “no mention” of the Las Vegas shooting (which is utterly false).
According to POLITICO’s Dan Diamond, Trump’s mention tonight was inadequate.
It’s been four months since more than 500 were killed or injured because of one American-born gunman in Las Vegas. Worst mass shooting in modern history.
But other than Trump praising “strangers shielding strangers,” virtually no mention tonight.
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) January 31, 2018
What do you want him to do? Please, enlighten us.
It's a common known fact that if the killer were anything BUT, we would've heard from him about it daily for 4 months. This is where we are…
— Kelz (@kelz_dc) January 31, 2018
Translations: Trump is racist.
Same thing with the Scalise shooting. Did we hear one peep about gun control? Don't think so.
— georgealanruth (@jackalspaanncr) January 31, 2018
Probably because Scalise is a white guy, so they didn’t care. It didn’t fit the gun control narrative.
No mention of putting in place common sense laws that stop people from getting guns in his dog whistle on immigrants being murderers? Yeah. No. Guess not.
— Jeremy Bird (@jeremybird) January 31, 2018
He did mention “common sense laws.” It’s called immigration reform, you know, that thing that Democrats are so VASTLY against.
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There are gun laws. The problem is enforcement.
— Bartlett Kelloggs (@BartlettKellogg) January 31, 2018
BINGO.
But if you try breaking these things down to gun control advocates, it’s always the same.
“We NEED more laws.”
But the current laws on the books didn’t stop someone from illegally obtaining a firearm and killing someone.
“But we NEED more laws. It’ll protect people.”
And the cycle continues.
Mom’s Demand Action founder Shannon Watts wasted no time slamming Trump either:
Trump has somehow pointed out shootings and gun violence victims without ever mentioning the words “shootings” or “gun violence” #SOTU
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) January 31, 2018
Would those three words make you happy?
Trump throws in #SOTU shout-out to the @NRA: “We are defending our Second Amendment, and have taken historic actions to protect religious liberty.”
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) January 31, 2018
If it was a true shout out, he would have said the NRA by name. Don’t get your panties in a bunch, Shannon.
Trump says in #SOTU, “We saw strangers shielding strangers from a hail of gunfire on the Las Vegas strip.” But not once does he mention working to stop gun violence.
Demand our lawmakers stand up to the @NRA instead of asking citizens to stand up to gunmen.
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) January 31, 2018
So, let me get this straight? You want to make law-abiding people defenseless because you think it’ll stop gun violence? What do you tell those women who were unarmed when a criminal raped them?
Why does this administration believe banning immigrants will keep us safer than vetting gun buyers? There are 12,000 US gun murders each year – a 25 times higher rate than in peer nations. #sotu
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) January 31, 2018
Because if a large portion of those who are committing crimes come from other countries, it makes more sense to stop them at the border then it does to hunt them down AFTER they’ve committed crimes.
HELLO, common sense.
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