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Your Fingerprints Are on Those Guns, GOP

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212352686

If you are a Republican member of congress who has done nothing to curb the sale of automatic weapons – whose only purpose is to kill multiple people in a matter of minutes – your fingerprints are on the guns used in El Paso and Dayton, as well as those used in all of the other mass shootings we have endured as a nation on your “pResident’s” watch.

If you didn’t speak up against Trump’s racist rhetoric, which started even before you nominated and elected him, your fingerprints are on the steering wheel of the car that plowed into a crowd of peaceful protestors in Charlottesville, killing Heather Heyer.

It was you who beat-up those anti-racist protestors, and traumatized the country as you marched with your tiki-torches chanting Nazi and white supremacist slogans – and your fingerprints are all over the scenes of the crimes where anyone has been killed or injured by the racists your “pResident” literally encourages every day.

If you remained silent as your “pResident” demonized Mexicans, Muslims, people from ‘shithole countries’, labelled black athletes ‘sons-of-bitches’, told four American citizens of colour to ‘go back where they came from’, and speaks in terms of ‘infestation’ when referring to our non-white fellow citizens, it’s you he’s speaking on behalf of – because your silence can only be understood as agreement and outright complicity.

If you stayed quiet while your “pResident” encouraged violence at his rallies, as he told cops not to ‘go easy’ on arrestees, as he praised Greg Gianforte when he punched a reporter, it is far too late to feign surprise that his hate-filled rhetoric promoting violence and racism would not, with absolute certainty, lead to the carnage we are now forced to witness over and over again.

If you didn’t stand up to Trump, that means you stand with him. And his sins are your sins, his crimes are your crimes, and the blood on his hands is on your hands.

I can’t imagine what kompramat Trump or his puppet-masters have on you that would lead you to abandon not only your own principles and morals, but those of your party. Given what you have sacrificed to continue supporting your “pResident” – a liar, a thief, an obstructer of justice, and obviously a Russian asset – it is hard to comprehend what potential devastation to yourself and the GOP could possibly be worth doing so.

Today we heard Republicans selling the idea that video games are the issue, or social media, or mental illness. The only mental illness at play here is that of a “pResident” who foments racism and violence at every opportunity, and the party that insanely enables him.

At times like these, we wonder what goes through a gunman’s mind as he takes aim and fires on innocent men, women, children. Perhaps what went through the El Paso shooter’s mind was the hate-filled racist statements of your own “pResident” – or perhaps it was the deadly silence of those who have it in their power to do something about it, but have instead chosen to look the other way.

This is ALL on you, Republicans – from your “pResident” on down. The blood of the innocent is on your hands, and the decent people among us will never let anyone forget your cowardice – because we will be there to remind them.