{"id":51525,"date":"2015-06-19T22:06:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T04:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/19\/on-what-the-charleston-shooting-was-really-about.html"},"modified":"2015-06-22T15:23:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T21:23:22","slug":"on-what-the-charleston-shooting-was-really-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/19\/on-what-the-charleston-shooting-was-really-about.html","title":{"rendered":"On what the Charleston shooting was REALLY about"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rick Perry referred to it was an "accident" and probably involved overuse of prescription drugs: http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/rick-perry-charleston-shooting-accident-due-drug-use-manipulated-obama-ban-guns<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael Savage thought it might be drugs, too. Or maybe a government assassin: http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/michael-savage-maybe-charleston-shooter-was-set-loose-government<\/a><\/p>\n

But Rick Santorum said it was all about attacks on religious liberty: http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2015\/06\/18\/rick-santorum-reacting-to-charleston-shooting-denounces-assaults-on-our-religious-liberty\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Fox & Friends agreed, it might very well be part of the ongoing attacks on Christians: http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2015\/06\/18\/fox_and_friends_on_charleston_shooting_it_s_extraordinary_that_they_re_calling.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Regardless of the motivation, we know why it turned out as tragic as it did … because the church was a "gun-free zone": http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2015\/06\/18\/gun-free-zones-easy-target-for-killers.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Brian Fischer confirms the shooting took place because it was a "gun-free zone": https:\/\/twitter.com\/BryanJFischer\/status\/611530746625421312<\/a><\/p>\n

Fox & Friends is definitely behind the idea that more guns would have averted the tragedy: http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/18\/fox-amp-friends-exploits-south-carolina-church\/204046<\/a><\/p>\n

Mike Huckabee definitely thinks the prayer group should have been packing: http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/mike-huckabee-charleston-shooting-couldve-been-prevented-if-church-members-were-armed<\/a><\/p>\n

Yup, no question that it was because the church was a "gun-free zone": http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/18\/discredited-gun-researcher-john-lott-botches-sc\/204052<\/a><\/p>\n

And one NRA board member makes it clear that it was actually the fault of the killed pastor of the church because of his support for gun control laws: http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/18\/nra-board-member-blames-murdered-reverend-for-d\/204057<\/a><\/p>\n

It surely had nothing to do with why a guy would wear a jacket with the flags of white-minority-government Rhodesia and apartheid-era South Africa on it, nor how he was able to get a gun because of loopholes in the law in South Carolina. That's just crazy talk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Rick Perry referred to it was an "accident" and probably involved overuse of prescription drugs: http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/rick-perry-charleston-shooting-accident-due-drug-use-manipulated-obama-ban-guns Michael Savage thought it might be drugs, too. Or maybe a government assassin: http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/michael-savage-maybe-charleston-shooter-was-set-loose-government But Rick Santorum said it was all about attacks on religious liberty: http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2015\/06\/18\/rick-santorum-reacting-to-charleston-shooting-denounces-assaults-on-our-religious-liberty\/ Fox & Friends agreed, it might very well be part of the … Continue reading “On what the Charleston shooting was REALLY about”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,381,298,740,378,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-conspiracy-nuts","category-guns","category-race-racism","category-intolerance-persecution","category-religious-zanies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/11265297_111398835859264_82145487461570196_o.jpg.CROP.promo-mediumlarge5B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25222,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/jeffersons-bible-and-david-barton.html","url_meta":{"origin":51525,"position":0},"title":"Jefferson's Bible and David Barton","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Jan-12 2:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"David Barton, pseudo-historian (and dolt), will soon be publishing The Jefferson Lies, wherein he tries to demonstrate that Thomas Jefferson was just as much of an evangelical, miracle-believing, Jesus-praising, conservative Christian as ... well, Dave Barton claims to be. 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