Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana made an appearance on Fox News Channel’s Hannity Monday night, rejecting calls for tighter gun laws following a deadly shooting in Manhattan.
Host Sean Hannity opened the segment by acknowledging the gravity of the tragedy: “We have five dead that we have confirmed at this point. We hope that the toll stays where it is and does not climb. We’re sorry for the prayers with the families that lost his loved ones. Is there anything you’re gleaning from the information that we have so far? We’ll know a lot more, probably within the hour.”
Responding with emotion, Kennedy expressed deep sorrow: “All you can do at a time like this is be sorry. And, I’m sorry. I’m sorry for the civilians who were killed or injured. I don’t know why bad things happen to good people. I don’t if I make it to heaven, I’m going to ask. I’m sorry for the police officers who were killed or injured. I’m also thankful for those who ran into the danger and away from it. I’m grateful for them. And I’m sorry for the people in New York. This is going to cause them to have to live in further fear.”
Turning to the policy debate that often follows such attacks, Kennedy anticipated renewed demands from fellow lawmakers to enact new firearms legislation. “On Capitol Hill, probably beginning in the morning, there’ll be the inevitable call by some of my colleagues for more gun control laws. We’ve got hundreds of gun control laws. We don’t need more gun control. We need more idiot control. And I don’t know exactly how to do that, but I do know this: I don’t want to hear anyone feeling sorry for this guy who did this. And there will be some that say, well, he was mixed up. He was confused. He was just sick. His mama or daddy didn’t love him enough. All that may be true. But from the bottom of my heart, I don’t care. I believe there’s objective evil in this world. And we saw it today. And I’m just – I’m just sorry.”
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First we need to throw the idiot liberal judges and defense attorneys in jail and then punish the criminals in a way that will make them more reticent about committing crimes
You might start at the elementary school level or in the home.
Idiots?? Every society has plenty of them..The danger is that very few societies besides the US allow them to inflict so many casualties on any given day r”l.
p.s.That’s without the gun apologists trying to turn every community into their default unhealthy ready-to-draw Western town
So is there a solution?Yes.
I want to know why someone with mental illness is able to get a license to carry with no review. There should be “mental illness” checks for people on medication for mental illness or a mental health board that either allows or denies a gun license. So many of the mass shootings are coming from people with mental illness and we need to stop it.
The c i a have been using drugs in their mk-ultra programs to create assassins.
Yes, we do need idiot control, as Mr. Kennedy’s statements illustrate so well.
Yeh, terrible.
Hopefully Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will be in power next time around and we’ll have a Bernie Sanders/AOC democrat controlled Congress and Senate.