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Trump’s Detestable NRA Speech: an Insult to Uvalde Victims

“Former President Donald Trump’s mangled recitation of the names of the 21 Uvalde, Texas, mass shooting victims at the National Rifle Association’s convention on Friday made Twitter critics’ blood run cold.

The names of the 19 children and two teachers, broken up into hardly recognizable syllables in Trump’s stumbling pronunciation, were interspersed with the funereal sound of a gong.”

Yahoo.com

Prominent NRA supporters Lee Greenwood, Don McLean, Larry Gatlin and Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick pulled out of the NRA Convention in Houston, Texas, they realized it would be disrespectful and hurtful to attend less than a week after 19 schoolchildren and two teachers were massacred at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

But Donald Trump, a sociopath with no empathy, decency or sense or propriety, gave a speech at the NRA convention where gun merchants had assault rifles on display, the same killing machines that the shooter used to murder the defenseless schoolchildren.

To add insult to injury Trump read the names of the 21 Uvalde mass shooting victims, predictably butchering the pronunciation of the Hispanic names. 

Any pretense that the reading of the names was meant as a dignified and solemn tribute to the victims was nullified by the theatrical sounding of a gong.Trump ending his speech with his patented spastic dance moves.

The twice-impeached former president is a perfect representation of the typical clueless and heartless NRA supporter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IeiyrUhe0A

Manufacturer of Uvalde Shooter’s Assault Rifle Posted Image of Toddler with Gun Before Massacre

“Gunmaker Daniel Defense posted online an advertising photo of a toddler holding one of its AR-15-style rifles just days before one of its firearms was used in the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Tex.

The photo shows a young boy holding the rifle on his lap, along with the caption: ‘Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.’”

Washington Post

The Daniel Defense tweet is meant to strike a chord with evangelicals, the caption is taken from Proverbs 22:6. The evangelicals love for God and guns begs the question: If they trust the Almighty to be their protector why do they feel the need to tote assault rifles?

The advertisement includes an emoji of two hands held together in prayer. Most appropriate because religion and violence go hand-in-hand.

A giant dildo shaped like an armor-piercing bullet with an image of a cross would sell like hotcakes at Christian bookstores.

Daniel Defense posted the controversial image to Twitter on May 16. The next week, the 18-year-old gunman used a Daniel Defense DDM4 Rifle to gun down 19 children and two teachers at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

The gun manufacturer is beneath contempt. The parents who allowed their toddler to hold a weapon of war in his tiny hands in the advertisement are beneath contempt. Those who think thoughts and prayers and armed teachers are the answer are beneath contempt.

Shortly after the school shooting, Daniel Defense deleted their offensive tweet, but the damage has been done, and the gun merchant must be held accountable.  

Ted Cruz Blasted for Offering Freaking Prayers After the Uvalde School Massacre

“Heidi and I are fervently lifting up in prayer the children and families in the horrific shooting in Uvalde.”

Ted Cruz tweet

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is facing backlash for his response to the May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.

I echo the sentiments of Rep. Ruben Gallego who tweeted:

“Fuck you @tedcruz, you care about a fetus but you will let our children be slaughtered.”

The pro-gun zealot Ted Cruz is a typical elected Republican who blocks all action on gun control and offers “thoughts and prayers” in the aftermath of every school shooting.

Cruz is a political animal with no genuine spiritual inclinations, he claims to be an evangelical out of political expediency. He’s smart enough to realize that thoughts and prayers are as effectual as farts and belches, and I doubt he prayed for the children and families of the horrific shoot shooting.

“Fervently praying!” Give me a break. Cruz’s evangelical supporters may believe that he was on his knees fervently praying for the victims, and that this is an effective action plan to stop violence.

But the time for “thoughts and prayers” was over a dozen school shootings ago, it’s time for concrete plans and effective legislation to fight gun violence and save our school children from being slaughtered.

Cruz is scheduled to speak at an NRA event in Houston in a couple of days, and the massacred children will be the last thing on his mind as he schmoozes with the gun merchants.