Showing posts with label John Mercure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Mercure. Show all posts

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Is It Still Too Soon?

After the horrible event in Newton, Connecticut on Friday, radio propagandist John Mercure at WGOP-AM, went off on State Representative Jon Richards for issuing a press release calling for just one reasonable change to Wisconsin's gun laws:
The school shooting in Connecticut broke all of our hearts today. As a father, I can’t even imagine the pain these parents are suffering. As we learn more about the mass murderer in Connecticut and how he obtained his weapons, Democrats and Republicans need to work together to do all we can to ensure that what happened there can’t happen here. It can be done. Three years ago, Democrats and Republicans cooperated to pass the Wisconsin law that keeps guns out of the hands of people who have been involuntarily committed for mental illness. In the meantime, all of us in Wisconsin are keeping the families touched by this horrific tragedy in our thoughts and prayers.”
Mercure then went after me when I confronted him on Twitter for his obscene diatribe.

Apparently 20 dead school children wasn't enough for him.

I wonder if Mercure still thinks it too soon now that there was another gunman going around shooting up a hospital in Alabama.

It's not too soon to make reasonable changes in gun laws, as well as making mental health services more available.

If anything, every day shows us we're too late for too many people.