Another set of tweets to add to the gallery of ghouls, courtesy of bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates.
Like many of her fellow gun-grabbers, Oates wasted no time on prayer and grieving after news of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre devastated Newtown, Conn., and the nation. She was too busy turning the blood of innocents into warpaint for her battle against the NRA.
Her first idea? Publicizing the names and images of “politicians in thrall to the NRA” as guilty of “felony homicide.”
Names & photos of politicians in thrall to the NRA should be publicized in connection with the Newton, CT massacre. "Felony homicide."
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) December 14, 2012
"Guns don't kill people. People with guns kill people."
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) December 14, 2012
But Oates wasn’t done co-appropriating the tragedy for her left-wing agenda. In keeping with President Obama’s “new era of civility,” she seized on a possible strategy to force through gun control legislation: violence against NRA members.
If sizable numbers of NRA members become gun-victims themselves, maybe hope for legislation of firearms?
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) December 14, 2012
That’s right. Oates is pinning her Constitution-stomping hopes and dreams on “sizable numbers of NRA members” getting shot. And she certainly wouldn’t be the first anti-gun zealot endorsing or wishing for violence against those who treasure their Second Amendment rights:
- University of Rhode Island professor’s retweet: Murder anyone who thinks teachers should be armed
- Amid increasing death threats, NRA braces for D.C. anti-gun march led by left-wing CREDO Mobile
- Post-Newtown witch hunt: NRA president and members bombarded with death threats
But Oates questions whether others are making the nation less “civilized” than it could be by clinging bitterly to their rights.
What a strange "civilized" country where it is considered a brave act to suggest banning assault weapons…
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) December 16, 2012
Good news, Mayor Bloomberg: She’s on your team!
(No wonder Bloomberg is a "sane, sensible Republican"–people have pointed out to me that he's not a Republican any longer.)
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) December 18, 2012
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