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REPORTER: "Do you think there's any role for congress to play in reaction [to the Tennessee shooting]?"
BURCHETT: "I don't see any real role that we could do other than mess things up."
REPORTER: "What else should be done to protect people like your little girl?"
BURCHETT: "Well, we homeschool her."
Link to tweet
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Instead of Congress enacting stricter gun laws, background checks, and a ban on assault weapons, Congressman Burchett said, "you've got to change people's hearts," as he called for a Christian revival.
"As a Christian, we talk about the church. I've said this many times, I think we really need a revival in this country."
https://www.rawstory.com/were-not-gonna-fix-it-tn-republican-says-congress-can-do-nothing-to-stop-gun-violence-calls-for-christian-revival/

roamer65
(37,801 posts)I am sick of these christofascist scum suckers.
onecaliberal
(36,594 posts)moonshinegnomie
(3,673 posts)Freethinker65
(11,201 posts)JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)change
The one question which NEVER will be asked is how "thoughts and prayers" will change anything?
Initech
(106,458 posts)It got flooded with right wing nut jobs and 2A fanatics. It was so bad that I finally wound up deleting the tweet. I did add a bunch of users to my block list though. Fuck the 2A absolutionists.
MagickMuffin
(17,929 posts)Theyll be secured for the 2nd coming!
malaise
(289,688 posts)showing his family with weapons - some fucking revival that you ignorant fool.
These people are sick - take your effin religion and shove it theocrat.
spanone
(140,316 posts)Yesterdays massacre was less than a mile down the road from me.


RobinA
(10,443 posts)to understand his job as a legislator if he thinks the solution to a societal problem is to withdraw from society. Why is he in government?
maxsolomon
(37,467 posts)Homeschoolers are tedious.