A view from the makeshift memorial in front of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. /Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Opinion: Several Arizona Republicans on Wednesday took to the Senate floor to explain why a classroom full of kids had to die. Here’s a hint: it had nothing to do with guns.
By Laurie Roberts | Arizona Republic
Several Republican legislators took to the Arizona Senate floor on Wednesday to lament the wholesale slaughter of a classroom full of Texas children and to explain the many reasons why those kids had to die.
Long story short: Blame abortion, transgender people and the removal of God from America’s classrooms.
Absolutely not to blame for Wednesday’s massacre: The ready availability of high-powered assault-style weapons to any Tom, Dick or Dirty Harry who wants one.
Sens. Gray, Townsend were quick to blame
Sen. Rick Gray took to the floor to explain that God is absent in today’s anything-goes society.
“We’ve been teaching our children, ‘there is no God …’,” the Sun City Republican said. “All they’ve been taught is they’re animals. There are no absolutes.”
Sen. Kelly Townsend, R-Apache Junction, echoed Gray’s comments.
“When we don’t value life, when we celebrate abortion, when we don’t acknowledge science when it comes to gender, when it comes to who you are and what you want to be and you can just do whatever. When we bastardize childhood, what do you expect?
“What do we expect to happen? When you say there is no God, that we rose from science and evolution and God doesn’t exist, then remove what God is. God is love. That’s what God is supposed to be and when you remove love you replace it automatically with what, hate, and you see events like this.”
If we can’t prevent shootings, can we cut the carnage?
What do I expect?
