Discussion: Trump on Oregon College Shooting: 'These Things Happen'

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“Bad things happen…whatchergonnadoaboudit?”

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That’s the way the world works

Huh, que sera, sera from the ‘action’ guy…yellow ain’t just the color of his hair.

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Yet another reasonable, thoughtful, well articulated answer from the Dumpster.

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He doesn’t even want to try! In any other situation, he’d be advocating for an answer. In this case, no way. You are done for, Donald.

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And this is one of the reasons why he commands a (albeit small) lead in the GOP polls. He represents the GOP base to a “t.” This is how they look at solving problems: whatchergonnadoaboudit. The simplistic, childlike and blameless view of the world. If the issue is gun violence, just shrug your shoulders because it CANNOT be the fault of the gun. If the issue is immigration, get rid of them (whoever “them” represents)

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It’s been the problem of the GOP for a while now. Their base want simple solutions. Never mind what will happen if those simple solutions are followed through with. Never mind the crops rotting in the fields because Americans are too unwilling to do farm labor these days and getting rid of the “ferners” is going to rob our farms of laborers. Never mind that Climate Change is destroying businesses left right and center so long as it doesn’t impact our oil prices. And so forth.

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Correction: That’s not the way the world works, that’s the way the US of A works.

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When one person [Kate Steinie] was killed by an undocumented immigrant in San Francisco this summer Trump was using it as a was to hammer other immigrants. Nine people get slaughtered at a community college, “Well shit happens, what are you going to do about it.”

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“We already have very strong laws on the books.” Well, I guess it’s true that there are laws against murder. All we need to do is start enforcing them, right DT?

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Australia has strict gun laws and very few murders such as this, yet it’s legal for anyone there to own a weapon if you want to go through the rigorous steps to procure one.

“Shit Happens” is an apathetic and lazy answer.

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“These things happen.” That’s no answer.

I thought Donny wanted to make America great again?

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Makes one shake one’s head in disgust, doesn’t it

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Isn’t it amazing that the GOP can tell you what’s not going to work, but has no clue as to what will work. Turds.

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Trump will browbeat China and intimidate Mexico. But he becomes a timid little mouse before the NRA.

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After 35 people were killed in the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre they essentially put strong restrictions on the kind of guns that enable you to shoot people rapidly and continuously. They haven’t had a mass shooting since.

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He’s got to inform his ass-kissers …because they can’t grasp a concept bigger than Donnie.

Yes. This, from the same man who just a few days ago said he fights like hell to pay as little in taxes as possible.

As if anyone needed any further evidence to this effect, Trump here reveals himself as, at best, indifferent toward the welfare of anyone other than himself. Strange, isn’t it, that so many of the people supporting Trump’s candidacy are of the sort that, otherwise, he would denigrate as losers; but in him they nevertheless see a fellow traveller–they, too, are at best indifferent toward anyone other than themselves. This sort of indifference may make for politically-strange bedfellows, but i suspect that if Trump were to become President, we’d see a lot of those folks getting kicked out of that bed.

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THIS.

It’s a uniquely American problem. C’mon Donald, “Making America Great” doesn’t mean keeping America the Wild West.

Almostevery nation in the world has managed to figure out how to keep this from happening, Don’t tell me there are no solutions, Those are the words of coward.

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Shorter Trump: ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens’
Which was an Onion headline from May 2014.

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