SEVERAL POLITICIANS AND MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA HAVE RESPONDED AND
SHARED THEIR OPINION IN REGARD TO THE MASS SHOOTING THAT JUST
TOOK PLACE IN LAS VEGAS WHICH KILLED 59 INDIVIDUALS AS OF
TODAY.
I WANT TO START OFF WITH A SPEECH THAT DONALD TRUMP
GAVE IN RESPONSE TO THIS SHOOTING AND HOW HE FEELS
THAT NOW IS THE TIME FOR US TO UNITE AS A COUNTRY.
TAKE A LOOK.
WE ARE JOINED TOGETHER TODAY IN SADNESS, SHOCK, AND GRIEF.
IT WAS AN ACT OF PURE EVIL.
TO THE FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS, WE ARE PRAYING FOR YOU AND
WE ARE HERE FOR YOU.
AND WE ASK GOD TO HELP SEE YOU THROUGH THIS VERY DARK PERIOD.
SCRIPTURE TEACHES US THE LORD IS CLOSE TO THE BROKENHEARTED
AND SAVES THOSE WHO ARE CRUSHED IN SPIRIT.
WE SEEK COMFORT IN THOSE WORDS, FOR WE KNOW THAT GOD LIVES IN
THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO GRIEVE.
TO THE WOUNDED, WHO ARE NOW RECOVERING IN HOSPITALS, WE
ARE PRAYING FOR YOUR AND SPEEDY RECOVERY.
MELANIA AND I ARE PRAYING FOR EVERY AMERICAN WHO HAS BEEN
HURT, WOUNDED, OR LOST THE ONES THEY LOVE SO DEARLY IN THIS
TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE ATTACK.
WE PRAY FOR THE ENTIRE NATION TO FIND UNITY AND PEACE AND WE PRAY
FOR THE DAY WHEN EVIL IS BANISHED AND THE INNOCENT ARE
SAFE FROM HATRED AND FROM FEAR.
MAY GOD BLESS THE SOULS OF THE LIVES THAT ARE LOST.
MAY GOD GIVE US THE GRACE OF HEALING AND MAY GOD PROVIDE
THE GRIEVING FAMILIES WITH STRENGTH TO CARRY ON.
THANK YOU.
GOD BLESS AMERICA.
THAT IS YOUR TELEPROMPTER PRESIDENT.
HE COULDN'T QUOTE SCRIPTURE OFF THE TOP OF THE SIDE OF HIS
LIFE DEPENDED ON IT SO HE IS OBVIOUSLY READING FROM A
TELEPROMPTER.
WHAT DO THEY DO THAT?
IT SENSIBLE AND LOGICAL BECAUSE GOD KNOWS WHAT DONALD TRUMP
WOULD SAY IF YOU DIDN'T GIVE THEM A SCRIPT IN A
SITUATION LIKE THIS.
I'M SURE THERE WAS AN INTERNAL MEETING IN THE WHITE HOUSE LIKE,
GET THAT GUY SCRIPT OTHERWISE HE WILL SAY SOMETHING
DISASTROUS AT A HORRIBLE MOMENT LIKE THIS.
SO HE GOES AND PRETENDS TO TALK ABOUT GOD AND PRAYERS.
LET ME TRANSLATE FOR YOU.
WHENEVER YOU HEAR SOMEBODY SAYING THAT THEY ARE GOING
TO PRAY ABOUT AN ISSUE, POLITICIAN SAYING IT, THAT
MEANS I AM NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
I'M NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
I'M JUST GOING TO SAY HERE AND PRAY.
THIS TRUMP SAY THAT IS AN ACT OF TERRORISM, WELLNESS IS
RIGHT RING TERRORISM.
IF IT'S A MUSLIM RADICAL TERRORISM TO SEE TRUMP
GOING, WE'RE GOING TO PRAYING GOD LIVES IN THE HEARTS OF
THE GRIEVING VICTIMS SO WE'RE JUST GOING TO PRAY ABOUT IT
NOT DOING ANYTHING.
NO, HE IS LIKE TRAVEL BAN, BOMBINGS, WAY TO KILL THEM
AND THEIR FAMILIES.
NOW WHEN IT IS A MASS SHOOTING AFTER MASS SHOOTING, 33,000
PEOPLE DIE EVERY YEAR FROM GUN SHOOTINGS IN AMERICA ALL OF
A SUDDEN, PRAYERS.
ANOTHER WORDS, NOTHING.
I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE ANY POLICY ACTION.IN FACT I'M
GOING TO BLOCK POLICY ACTION AND THEN FINALLY, GOOD VERSUS EVIL.
THAT WILL SOLVE IT.
THAT IS HOW SIMPLE MINDS THINK.
OH, THERE'S NOT A LOT OF DIFFERENT FACTORS.
ISSUES OF BACKGROUND CHECKS.
IF IT WAS POLITICAL, WHICH WE DON'T KNOW, THAT
WOULD BE A LEGITIMATE CONCERN.
IF IT'S A RELIGIOUS CONCERN IT WOULD BE LEGITIMATE TO HAVE THAT
AS PART OF THE THINGS THAT YOU LOOK AT TO SEE, HOW CAN WE
PREVENT THIS.
INSTEAD OF HAVING THAT DISCUSSION, MIKA, THEM EVIL.
NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT.
LEAVE IT UP TO GOD, WILL SEE TOMORROW DON'S MOTHER WILL
BE ANOTHER MASS SHOOTING.
YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO IS FED UP WITH THIS
RESPONSE TO THESE SHOOTINGS.
THERE ARE SOME REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS WHO ARE
SPEAKING OUT AND THEY ARE REFUSING TO LOOK TO GOD OR
TO PRAYER IN ORDER TO SOLVE THIS TYPE OF TRAGEDY OR PREVENT
IT FROM HAPPENING IN THE FUTURE.
REPRESENTATIVE SETH MOULTON FROM MASSACHUSETTS ACTUALLY HAD
SOME PRETTY STRONG STATEMENTS IN REGARD TO THIS.
HE SAID AFTER THE SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED IN ORLANDO I WILL
NOT BE JOINING MY COLLEAGUES IN A MOMENT OF SILENCE JUST
BECAUSE AN EXCUSE FOR INACTION.
NOW IS NOT THE MOMENT FOR SILENCE, IT IS THE WOMAN
FOR ACTION.
THIS IS WHAT HE TWEETED JUST AFTER THE SHOOTING AND I
THINK THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES THAT ARE
TIRED OF THIS HAPPENING.
THAT YOU WANT SENSIBLE ACTION TAKEN BY HER LAWMAKERS.
HE IS EXACTLY RIGHT.
I WILL GO FURTHER.
THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR SCIENCE.
THIS IS A TIME FOR SHOUTING.
IF YOU ARE TIRED OF YOUR FELLOW AMERICANS BEING BUTCHERED AND
THEY WERE, WE PLAYED THE VIDEO IN THE LAST SEGMENT FOR YOU
GUYS IN THE LIVE SHOW AND IT SOUNDED LIKE A WAR ZONE.
A GUY WITH A FULLY AUTOMATIC WEAPON JUST OPENING FIRE ON
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AND SO FAR, ONE PERSON DIED IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE LIVE SHOW SO IT IS NOW 59
PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAD AND OVER 500 THAT ARE INJURED.
IS NOT TIME FOR SILENCE.
IT IS TIME TO SPEAK OUT ON THEIR BEHALF AND MOST IMPORTANTLY,
SPEAK OUT ON THE BEHALF OF THE NEXT POTENTIAL VICTIMS SO THEY
DON'T BECOME VICTIMS SO THAT WE CAN BEGIN TO FIX THIS ISSUE
AND OUR GUNS A PART OF THE ISSUE?
OF COURSE THEY ARE.
WEAPONS LIKE THIS MAKE IT MUCH EASIER TO DO MASS MURDER.
YOU CAN'T GO AROUND WITH A ROPE AND KILL A LOT OF PEOPLE AT
ONE TIME THAT YOU CAN'T DO IT WITH A KNIFE OR SCISSORS.
PEOPLE SAY SOMETIMES YOU CAN DO IT WITH VEHICLES.
THAT IS TRUE.
SO IF THERE IS A GOOD WAY TO PUT THE CONCRETE BARRIERS WERE A LOT
OF CIVILIANS ON THE SIDEWALK, MAYBE WE SHOULD CONSIDER THAT.
THAT IS A REASONABLE CONVERSATION TO HAVE DONE
INSTEAD THEY GO NO, DON'T TALK ABOUT IT I'VE ITS VEHICLES,
LET'S HAVE A CONVERSATION BUT IF I AM MAKING MONEY OFF OF
GUNS AND ALL OF THE REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS DO MAKE MONEY.
THEY GET CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES FROM THE NRA AND GUN
MANUFACTURERS SO THEY BENEFIT PERSONALLY FROM THIS AND
POLITICALLY FROM THIS SO ALL OF A SUDDEN, SILENCE.
SILENCE AND PRAYERS.
EXACTLY.
BY THE WAY, FOR PEOPLE WHO MIGHT BE WATCHING WHO ARE VERY
PROTECTIVE OF THEIR GUN RIGHTS.
THEY DO WANT ANY GUN LEGISLATION WHATSOEVER AND YOU DON'T
BUY THAT THESE POLITICIANS ARE BOUGHT, KEEP IN MIND THAT
JUST THIS PAST FRIDAY, WE DID A STORY ABOUT HOW THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION IS NOW MAKING IT EASIER FOR WEAPONS
MANUFACTURERS HERE IN THE UNITED STATES TO DIRECTLY SELL WEAPONS
TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES SOME OF WHICH MAY BE OUR ADVERSARIES.
WHY IS THAT?
WHY WOULD WE WANT TO SELL WEAPONS, NOT JUST GUNS, AND
TALKING SERIOUS MILITARY GRADE WEAPONS I CAN CAUSE A LOT
OF HARM AND KILL A LOT OF PEOPLE.
WHY WOULD WE WANT TO SELL THOSE WEAPONS IF WE KNOW THEY ARE
LIKELY TO END UP IN THE HANDS OF OUR ENEMIES?
WHY WOULD WE WANT TO DO THAT?
WEAPONS MANUFACTURERS WANT THAT THAT THEY WANT TO MAKE MONEY.
THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT LIVES OF PROTECTING AMERICANS.
THAT OKAY BUT THE CONSTITUTION OR YOUR SAFETY OR ANY OF
THOSE ISSUES AT ALL.
THEY CARE ABOUT MAKING MONEY AND SO TRUMP IS NOT GOING TO DO
ANYTHING ABOUT THIS.
THERE IS NOT GOING TO BE A SOLUTION.
WE'RE SITTING HERE GETTING ANGRY BUT THIS IS THE SAME THING
THAT WE'VE GONE THROUGH BEFORE AND WE'RE GOING TO KEEP
GOING THROUGH IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
WHO NUZZLED THE DEATH TOLL IS GOING TO BE.
IS BEYOND FRUSTRATING.
WE BUILT THESE AMORAL MACHINES CALLED PUBLIC CORPORATIONS
AND WE TOLD THEM WHATEVER YOU DO, MAXIMIZE PROFIT.
IF YOU MAKE SNEAKERS, MAKE AS MANY AS YOU CAN TYPE YOU
MAKE GUNS, MAKE AS MANY AS YOU CAN DOCUMENT DRONES OR
TANKS OR KILLING MACHINES, MAKE AS MANY KILLING MACHINES AS
YOU POSSIBLY CAN.
THEN WE TOLD THEM, IT'S OKAY TO BRIBE POLITICIANS.
WE'RE GOING TO CALL IT CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES, CAMPAIGN
DONATIONS.
YOU CAN SPEND LOBBYIST MONEY, THINK ABOUT THE DINNERS, ALL
THESE THINGS THAT TAKE THEM ON VACATION DO ANYTHING YOU WANT.
WE HAVE LEGALIZED BRIBERY AND THEN WHAT WOULD A RATIONAL
AMORAL MACHINE DO?
THERE IN THE BUSINESS OF PRODUCING KILLING MACHINES,
THEY WOULD LOGICALLY BUY OFF ALL OF THE POLITICIANS WHOSE
JOB IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE TO PROTECT CITIZENS FROM THOSE
KILLING MACHINES.
THEY WOULD SAY NO, I MAKE KILLING MACHINES, I PROFIT OFF
OF THEM SO I AM JUST GOING TO BRIBE YOU, I'M IN, GIVE YOU AN
INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURE WHATEVER WE WANT TO CALL IT TODAY AND SO
YOU SHOW UP AND EVERY TIME MY KILLING MACHINES DO WHAT THEY
ARE DESIGNED TO DO, MURDER, IN THIS CASE, PEOPLE.
THEY SAY WE COULD'VE BEEN BUDDIES, COULD'VE INTO A
RABBIT HUNTING.
AS IT TURNS OUT HE MURDERED DOZENS AND DOZENS AND
DOZENS OF PEOPLE.
THE GUN MANUFACTURER MAKES THE SAME PROFIT EITHER WAY.
DON'T WORRY, THEY SEND IT TO, THEY SOLD A LOT OF THIS TO
GULF COUNTRIES.
YOU KNOW ARE THE NUMBER ONE FUNDING AND WEAPONS CAME
FOR IRAQI INSURGENTS WHO MURDERED OUR TROOPS?
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT KNEELING DURING FOOTBALL?
THEY KILLED HER TROOPS IN IRAQ.
CAME FROM THE GULF, THE SAME COUNTRIES WE JUST
AUTHORIZED TO SELL A LOT MORE WEAPONS TOO.
ARE YOU GOING TO PROFIT OFF OF THAT HER TROOPS?
KNOW, BUT THESE AMORAL MACHINES THAT WE BUILT AND SOLD TO
MAXIMIZE PROFIT AT ALL COSTS ARE GOING TO GO OUT THERE AND
FILE THE POLITICIANS AND THEY ARE GOING TO MAKE ALL OF
THOSE KILLING MACHINES AND THEY'RE GOING TO SPREAD
THEM ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES ARE GOING TO DIE BUT THEY ARE
GOING TO CONTINUE TO MAKE MORE
MORE PROFIT.