Rick Perry Calls Charleston Church Shooting an 'Accident'

The Liberals pounced like greased lightening on this one. He meant to say 'incident' but it came out 'accident'. According to his press secretary he misspoke. I can buy that. Of course the MSM is going to make a big deal out of it. They tried to put it in the same context as their favorite presidential candidate who infamously claimed she was shot at by snipers in Bosnia and later said she misspoke. Little different don't you think? 

 Perry's right, Obama wasted no time blaming it on gun control. It's now all over Twitter… the "right wing" and the NRA are responsible for the shooting.

http://www.examiner.com/article/liberals-on-twitter-blame-gop-nra-for-charleston-church-shooting

"On Your Head NRA," one person tweeted. "9 dead in shooting at Charleston African American church. Police chief calls it 'hate crime.'"

"The @NRA & the @GOP are 100 percent responsible for CHURCH SHOOTING IN SC," another person said on Twitter. So far, no evidence has been reportedly found that ties the shooter to either the NRA or the GOP.

(Raise your hand if you think the NRA endorses this?)

"This is indicative of the #nra-sponsored culture of white violence and #racism," a third person tweeted. "Let's see if that's how it's reported."

"I blame #NRA and the culture of violence propagated by the #GOP," said another Twitter user early Thursday morning. "Horrible. Just horrible."

"Congratulations to the @NRA on another successful mass shooting," added another Twitter user. "NRA will kill black people," one person claimed, citing no evidence whatsoever.

Using this logic... a fork is responsible for Michael Moore's morbid obesity. The AMA was the culprit when Helen Smith died on the operating table. Ford Motor Company is to blame for building the car which Pedro Rodriguez (here illegally... arrested and released 4 times) drove drunk killing a family of four in ahead-on collision.

 Liberals claimed the same crap in the Gifford shooting. Did you know the Colorado shooter (Holmes) great-grandfather was a Republican? I just made that up. But if I posted it somewhere liberals would line up to buy tickets. 

I read an article recently which claimed there are about 350 million guns in America. I'm not trying to minimize the tragedy in Charleston but when you look at that huge number those killed by guns is relatively small. For comparison every 2-hours, three people are killed in alcohol-related highway crashes.

http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/by_the_numbers/drunk_driving/index.html

Not to mention most people killed by guns are killed by someone in procession of a gun illegally. How will more restrictive gun laws be effective for those who don't follow the law? And of course we all know before the advent of the firearm no one died as a result of violence. Yet if it was up to Barry decreeing another Executive Order he would hunt down these guns and get rid of them. It would not be problem, but getting rid of 12 million illegals is an insurmountable task.

What I am saying here is this. Lets suppose Roof 2 hours before the service placed a pipe bomb underneath one of the pews setting it to go off  during the service. In the explosion 9 innocent people died. 

Would any of us feel any better now... whether you're a Republican or Democrat?

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Presidential candidate Rick Perry called this week's Charleston Church shooting an "accident" in a recent interview — an apparent slip of the tongue, his spokesman said later.

Perry entered the topic by calling President Obama's gun control message in the wake of the South Carolina tragedy, a "knee-jerk reaction," when prompted by a Newsmax reporter.

"This is the M.O. of this administration, anytime there is a accident like this," Perry told Steve Malzberg. "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."

Shortly after Perry's remark became a headline of its own, as well as a trending topic on social media, the politician's press secretary Travis Considine claimed the former governor misspoke. "From the context of his comments, it is clear Gov. Perry meant incident," Considine said in a statement.

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Also on topic, Perry said that he wasn't sure if the shooting was an act of terror, but that it was indeed a "crime of hate."

He also suggested that confessed shooter, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, may have been "medicated." One of Perry's platforms is the issue of opioids he alleges are being handed out too easily to ex-military members.

"I know for a fact, being a substantial supporter of our military and our veterans, that the Veterans Administration, for instance, is handing out these opioids in massive amounts," Perry said. "And then people question, 'Well then why can't these young individuals get work?' or 'Why is the suicide rate so high?'"

This isn't the only time Perry has made a public political gaffe while running for the nation's highest office. During the 2012 debate, Perry was unable to remember the third federal agency that he planned to eliminate if elected president.

Roof is accused of killing the nine victims at the historic black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on Wednesday night.

Rick Perry Calls Charleston Church Shooting an 'Accident'

Brain Williams speaks out

He must have called John Kerry for advice. 

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A good position for him at MSNBC would be co-anchor of Politics Nation. At least one of them could read a teleprompter.

Brain Williams speaks out

Dylann Roof Hears Victims' Families Speak at 1st Court Appearance: 'I Forgive You'

You have to applaud these families. They set an example in Charleston for the the rest of the country. They're not Baltimore. They're not Ferguson. Instead of rioting and looting causing mayhem for others who had absolutely nothing to do with it they said to the murderer of their friends and family:

 'I forgive you'. 

There's a lesson to be learned here for everyone.

Especially me.

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Found this on Twitchy.

Dylann Roof Hears Victims' Families Speak at 1st Court Appearance: 'I Forgive You'

Just what we wanted to hear from Jeb Garcia

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He'll get a bounce all right.

What a sorry state of affairs. 

This awkward GOP candidate feels he must emulate the worthless moron currently in the oval office by appearing on the Tonight show making a fool out of himself in thinking this will grease the skids to his nomination. He couldn't be more wrong. The very thing that repulses me about Barry has been adopted by a Republican candidate! Who's advising this guy? These numb nut episodes are reserved for Democrats who have nothing to offer, no solutions, seeking popularity to cover for their lack of  leadership. Barry has been reduced to the role of a capon. And in the eyes of the world, to friend and foe alike, every country knows it.  

Haven't we had enough of this kind of shit already? Seriously, are these the actions of a pimple-faced teenager with a new iPhone or the Commander in Chief of the United States? 

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In other news...

Guess Marie Osmond is still waiting for the call at Nutrisystems.

And last but not least. The Pope is now officially an advocate of climate change.




 Seems to me he took a much bigger interest in climate change then he has with ISIS killing Catholics. The Dem’s are going to run wild with this.

 I can here Barry, Pelosi, and Hillary now…"See.. even the Pope agrees with us.”

Not the best of times.

  

Just what we wanted to hear from Jeb Garcia

Suspect in deadly South Carolina church shooting ID’d; manhunt underway

You would have to be one sick bastard to do something like this!

What a senseless tragedy.

Sorry to see this happen in one of my favorite towns. Being from the North I feel the people in Charleston, and the South in general, are some of the nicest I have ever come across. Both white and black. If you can't be safe in your own church where can you? 

Mark my words. Any overtures from Sharpton to come down to "help out" will be rebuffed knowing full well he'll turn it into a media circus by taking a terrible situation and making it worse.

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Manhunt underway for man who killed nine in church

South Carolina police are hunting Dylann Roof in the deadly shooting Wednesday night at a Charleston church that left nine people dead, authorities announced as they identified the 21-year-old as the gunman. 

Police immediately branded the shooting spree, which began just after 9 p.m. Wednesday, a hate crime, and released surveillance images of a white man fleeing the scene at 180-year-old Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church after the horrific incident, which left six women and three men dead.

"This is an unspeakable and unfathomable act by somebody filled with hate and a deranged mind," Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley said in a Thursday morning press conference. He vowed that authorities were "committed to finding this horrible scoundrel."

The Post and Courier reported that Roof was arrested twice in South Carolina and was jailed in March in Lexington County on a drug charge.

"This is an unspeakable and unfathomable act by somebody filled with hate and a deranged mind."

- Charleston, S.C., Mayor Joseph Riley

A five-year-old girl reportedly survived the attack by following her grandmother's instructions to play dead, and a woman was allowed to leave to tell what had happened. It was not immediately known what message she was supposed to convey.

Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen said the gunman, described as clean-shaven, was still at large. Police said the man was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt with blue jeans and Timberland boots. 

“We are committed to do whatever is necessary to bring this individual to justice,” Mullen said, adding that the suspect “should not be approached by anyone.”

Mullen said the suspect entered the church and sat in a pew for up to an hour after the regular prayer meeting had begun, before opening fire at 9:06 p.m.

"This is a tragedy that no community should have to experience," Mullen said. "It is senseless and unfathomable in today's society that someone would walk into a church during a prayer meeting and take their lives."

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Mullen said investigators are going through surveillance video gathered overnight from a variety of sources to try to determine the suspect’s whereabouts. State Police and the FBI were working with local authorities in the hunt. Although Mullen said “there is no doubt in my mind that this is a hate crime,” the Department of Justice, which will ultimately make that determination, said it is opening a hate crime investigation.

Mullen said the scene was chaotic when police arrived, and the officers thought they had the suspect tracked with a police dog, but he got away. He also announced that a reward for information leading to the shooter's capture would be offered Thursday and that the FBI would aid the investigation.

Authorities said the crime scene investigation had been complicated by a bomb threat that had been called in, forcing police to move members of the media back and close off a large section of the street where the shooting took place.

Among the dead was the church's pastor, state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, 41, who had been a pastor since he was 18. Pinckney was the youngest African-American elected to the South Carolina legislature when he won office in 1996 at age 23 and had been a state senator since 2000. The other victims were not immediately identified.

Soon after Wednesday night's shooting, a group of pastors huddled together praying in a circle across the street. Early Thursday, a family assistance center was set up for families of the victims at a nearby hotel, according to city officials. The center will be staffed by local, state and federal victim services personnel and the Charleston Coastal Chaplaincy.

Amid the prayers and disbelief, was a simmering anger. Community organizer Christopher Cason told The Associated Press he felt certain the shootings were racially motivated.

"I am very tired of people telling me that I don't have the right to be angry," Cason said. "I am very angry right now."

Authorities said the shooting took place at approximately 9 p.m. local time. Police would not immediately confirm the identities of the victims. Mullen said there were survivors, but did not say how many, or how many were inside the church at the time of the shooting.

Dot Scott, the president of the Charleston NAACP, told the Post and Couriernewspaper that she had spoken with a female survivor who said the gunman told the woman he was letting her live so she could tell others what had happened.

"There is no greater coward than a criminal who enters a house of God and slaughters innocent people engaged in the study of Scripture," NAACP President and CEO Cornell Brooks said in a statement Thursday. "Today I mourn as an AME minister, as a student and teacher of scripture, as well as a member of the NAACP."

Police described the suspect as wearing a gray sweatshirt with blue jeans and Timberland boots. 

The church is a well-known landmark in Charleston, known as "The Holy City" because of its many houses of worship and denominations. The church traces its roots to 1816 when African-American members of the city's Methodist Episcopal Church, led by a freed slave, broke away to form their own congregation. The church was burned to the ground in the 1820s, and rebuilt a decade later.

The campaign of GOP presidential hopeful Jeb Bush sent out an email saying that due to the shooting, the candidate had canceled an event planned in the city Thursday. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley issued a statement calling the shooting a "senseless tragedy."

"While we do not yet know all of the details, we do know that we'll never understand what motivated anyone to enter one of our places of worship and take the life of another," Haley said. "Please join us in lifting up the victims and their families with our love and prayers."

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C. posted a series of Twitter message about the tragedy. "My heart is breaking for Charleston and South Carolina tonight," one of them read.

The church is a historic African-American church that traces its roots to 1816, when several churches split from Charleston's Methodist Episcopal church. One of its founders, Denmark Vesey, tried to organize a slave revolt in 1822. He was caught, and white landowners had his church burned in revenge. Parishioners worshipped underground until after the Civil War.

Anyone with information on the gunman's whereabouts is asked to contact Charleston Police dispatch at 843-743-7200.

Suspect in deadly South Carolina church shooting ID’d; manhunt underway