The Senate Majority Leader and Kentucky’s answer to decency, Mitch McConnell, was talking about his victory over the hare when the subject of school shootings came up. The Lexington Herald Leader reports, Sen. McConnell is as impotent as the rest of his political party.
“I don’t think at the federal level there’s much that we can do other than appropriate funds,” McConnell told a group of community leaders in Danville Tuesday.
McConnell did however, think that we need to turn children’s schools into security states, implying that local legislatures need to follow the example set by “how much it takes to get on an American plane or given how much it takes to get into courthouses.” Considering that more children have been murdered by guns in school this year than military murdered during “combat operations,” maybe the way to go is just send kids into combat instead of school?
In what may be a first for Republicans, McConnell did use the “E-word” to describe our country’s gun violence issue.
“It’s a darn shame that’s where we are but this epidemic is something that’s got all of our attention,” McConnell said of the school shootings. “And I know it’s got the attention of every school superintendent in the country.”
Republican leadership: the buck stops somewhere below us, anywhere but with us.