.@SteveScalise on gun control debate: "Go pray for these families, care about these families. Don't try and promote your agenda in the middle of a tragedy." @IngrahamAngle pic.twitter.com/1jF1ovSFjf
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And he of all people should know. He was called a racist and a traitor and attacked for managing to survive after he was shot by a leftist who in a terrorist act, wanted to kill Republicans because he had constantly heard from liberal media how they were an existential threat to him.
Via Lifezette:
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) said Thursday night on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” that “it’s disgraceful” when lawmakers immediately begin calling for gun control legislation and “taking away the rights of law-abiding citizens” following mass shootings.
Scalise, of course, was shot in the hip during a GOP congressional baseball practice last June 14 by liberal gunman James Hodgkinson. Two armed Capitol Police officers who were at the scene returned fire — and protected the lawmakers.
On Thursday night, the congressman spoke with host Laura Ingraham just one day after a gunman tragically killed 17 people at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Nikolas Cruz, 19, who is in custody, was charged earlier on Thursday with 17 counts of premeditated murder. And it didn’t take long for Democratic lawmakers to begin calling for further gun control legislation.
“It’s disgraceful. Anytime there’s any kind of tragedy — I mean a shooting, a bombing, whatever — immediately you’ve got a group of legislators that go run out, start calling for gun control and taking away the rights of law-abiding citizens,” Scalise said. “And again, look at their bills, read their bills. They have nothing to do with these kinds of shootings.”
He said there isn’t “some kind of magic unicorn law” that is going to prevent every future single mass shooting from occurring, no matter how hard Democrats may push for it.
“So this idea that one magic law is going to stop the next one from happening — it’s not,” Scalise said. “What you do see in common is, number one, you see a lot of mental illness in common, but you also see gun-free zones. Shooters know that if you go to a gun-free zone, you’re the only one with a gun that nobody else has.”
Fortunately in his situation, Scalise noted that the law enforcement agents who accompanied him to the baseball practice were armed and able to counter the gunman.
“And ultimately that’s what took him down. It was other people with guns that took down the shooter,” the congressman said to Ingraham. “And if there weren’t other people with guns to stop the shooter, there would have been 15 members of Congress executed that day. And there weren’t, luckily, by the grace of God, first of all. There were true miracles that happened on that field.”