Jeb Bush:
"
I don't know what was on the mind or the heart of the man who committed these atrocious crimes..."
Lindsey Graham:
“I just think one of these whacked out kids.
I don’t think it’s anything broader than that. It’s about a young man who is obviously twisted.”
Later he admitted race was a component, but pretended it was the religion that was the primary factor. When asked if he thought race or his mental state was a factor...
“Probably both. There are real people out there that are organized to kill people in religion and based on race. This guy is just whacked out.
But it’s 2015, there are people out there looking for Christians to kill them. This is a mean time we live in."
Bobby Jindal:
"Law enforcement will figure out what his
so-called motivations were."
Rick Perry:
"It seems to me, again without having all the details about this, that these individuals have been medicated and there may be a real issue in this country from the standpoint of these drugs and how they’re used.
This is the M.O. of this administration anytime there is
an accident like this. You know, the president's clear. He doesn't like for Americans to have guns, and so he uses every opportunity, this being another one, to basically go parrot that message."
Rick Santorum:
"You’re sort of lost that somebody could walk into a Bible study in a church and indiscriminately kill people. You talk about the importance of prayer in this time and we’re
now seeing assaults on our religious liberty we’ve never seen before. It’s a time for deeper reflection beyond this horrible situation."
Rudy Giuliani:
"We have no idea what's in his mind. Maybe he hates Christian churches. Maybe he hates black churches or he's gonna go find another one.
Who knows."
Mike Huckabee:
"It sounds crass, but frankly the
best way to stop a bad person with a gun is to have a good person with a weapon that is equal or superior to the one that he’s using."
Rand Paul:
"We had a shooting this morning in South Carolina. What kind of person goes into church and shoots nine people?
There’s a sickness in our country, there’s something terribly wrong, but it isn’t going to be fixed by your government.
It’s people straying away, it’s people not understanding where salvation comes from. And I think that if we understand that, we’ll understand and have better expectations of what we get from our government.
Steve Doocy of Fox & Friends:
"It's Extraordinary That Charleston Church Shooting Is Being Called A Hate Crime."
Erick Erickson, Redstate.com and Fox News Contributor:
“A society that looks at a 65 year old male Olympian and, with a straight face, declares him a her and ‘a new normal’ cannot have a conversation about mental health or evil because that society no longer distinguishes normal from crazy and evil from good. Our American society has a mental illness — overwhelming narcissism and delusion — and so cannot recognize what crazy or evil looks like.”
vibes, Whenever driving down south from NJ to GA with my Dad, we always got stopped by police in SC. Made sure we got the hell up out of there