Rush Limbaugh claims Jacksonville shooter was part of the 'resistance' to Trump...
There are no depths they won't sink to...
PolitiFact hit Rush Limbaugh with a "false" ruling after the conservative radio talk-show host claimed that the person officials say was behind Sunday's mass shooting at a video game tournament in Jacksonville, Fla., was "part of the Trump resistance."
"I’m thinking you might not hear very much about this Jacksonville shooting after the preliminaries because it appears that the shooter was part of the Trump 'Resistance,' " Limbaugh said on his nationally syndicated radio program on Tuesday, two days after the shooting that resulted in two dead and 10 injured. The shooter took his own life after the shooting.
"The shooter apparently on a Reddit thread was very, very anti-Trump, and so the drive-bys are not going to want to make a vast, vast move on this guy, make it look like the resistance is taking up arms because people that hate Trump are supposed to hate guns," Limbaugh continued. "You see, the only people that like guns are Republicans. And when it comes to the conservatives and the media, as far as the media’s concerned, conservatives who are no longer able to be conservatives are the best kind."
Of course the NRA BLAMED THE VICTIMS:
As always happens after a high-profile shooting, spokespeople from the National Rifle Association (NRA) and their friends in right-wing media swung into action, seeking to blame anyone or anything they could -- except, of course, the lax gun laws that allow dangerous people to arm themselves.
The focus, as it so often is, was on judging the victims' behavior. Exhibit No. 1 was Grant Stinchfield, a host on NRATV, who actually blamed the use of headphones at video game tournaments for the tragedy.
"You’ve got to be aware of your surroundings at all places," Stinchfield said. "I know it’s hard when you’re wearing headphones, but we talk about this all the time, whether you’re jogging and wearing headphones, whether you’re at a video game wearing headphones, if they’re so loud you can’t hear what’s going on around you, you are living in your own world. That can become deadly."