Yeah stuff happens on both sides. That stuff is not okay of course but Moscow Mitch became Massacre Mitch because after the latest batch of mass shootings people are blaming him for jamming up gun control legislation. It's a name he's earned imho.
So you endorse the mob gathering outside McConnell's home at night and calling for violence against them.
As is often pointed out, Obama controlled the House and Senate with supermajorities that could have passed ANY legislation, and never made mass shootings a priority. Obama was also not blamed when mass shotings (Sandy Hook, L.A., Fort Hood, Dallas police officeres killed, Pulse Night club, Aurora CO movie theatre...) happened on his watch. Nor were Harry Reid, or Nancy Pelosi blamed (as yo blame McConnell), or toward the end, then-Senate majority leader "cryin'" Chuck Schumer.
Your hypocrissy is on full display. Any of these people were infinitely more able to pass gun legislation.
But as I've said before, this is all liberal demagoguery anyway. There is no legislation that could have been passed, 8 years aago or now, that would prevent any of these shootings. All these shooters purchased their guns legally and went through background checks. The most visible one was Nicholas Cruz in Parkland, FL, but his school never made an official report of his threats, and police who visited his home for dozens of complaint calls likewise made no official reports that would have prevented him from obtaining weapons legally.
So what exactly are you blaming McConnell for, M E M?
Not passing legislation that wouldn't prevent shootings, but would take guns away from tens of thousands of law-abiding licensed owners?
A reminder:
Concealed Carrier Prevents Mass Shooting At Missouri Walmart August 9, 2019, by Madeline Osburn
When a 20-year-old man reportedly walked into a Springfield, Missouri, Walmart carrying tactical weapons and wearing body armor on Thursday, an off-duty firefighter carrying his own concealed weapon held the suspect at gunpoint until police arrived.
While not preventing shootings, what you advocate would actually take away the guns that prevent
more shootings from successfully killing people.
And "stuff"
DOESN'T "happen on both sides". Democrats are the ones (Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Cory Booker, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez... ) whose bellicose rhetoric from the very top in the Democrat leadership,
and in the liberal media, and as enabled by leftist-run social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube, cheer this stuff on and enable the spread of rhetoric calling for liberal violence on Republicans.
In examples like the El Paso shooter or
Cesar Sayoc, they are lone nuts, and not even consistently conservative.
In the case of the
El Paso shooter, he was primarily a radical environmentalist, and had even voiced opposition against Trump. His primary goal was preventing increased population of the United States, and his main beef with Trump was that Trump didn't shut down immigration completely, instead of just wanting to shut down
illegal immigration.
Details the liberal media and Democrat leadership don't want to achnowledge. Because the details make clear this guy wasn't inspired by Trump, that his beliefs were formed years before Trump even announced his presidential run.
Hodgkinson, Dorner, and the Dayton shooter, by contrast, were clear in their writings that they were directly inspired by Democrat leaders and CNN and MSNBC pundits. And the Democrats never at any point call for toning down the violent rhetoric from their side. After the Hodgkinson baseball shooting, at least two Democrat advisors and pollsters
actually called for more shootings!
You don't see that on the Republican side. No way you can make that turd float, M E M.
