When Joni Ernst, Iowa Republican Senate Primary candidate favored by Mitt Romney and other insane people described the killings in Santa Barbara as an "unfortunate accident" during her recent debate, Iowa Democrats came out fighting.
The Democrats punched back, saying:
It’s clear that Ernst is so fiercely partisan, so rigidly ideological, and so beholden to the special interests fueling her campaign that she is unable to even comprehend another viewpoint on these important issues,” said Representative Marti Anderson, a Des Moines Democrat. Anderson added, “As a mother and a longtime advocate for victims of violence, I find the idea that a premeditated, violent mass shooting can be described as an ‘unfortunate accident’ incredibly concerning and wrong.
Democrats were no doubt hoping to goad Ernst into doubling down on her obvious extremism on gun issues. She obliged, according to
the above quote and more from WHO TV in Des Moines. Ernst has riposted to the Democrats' call-out with a feeble counter-attack, belittling her detractors for going off on an unintentional slip of the tongue. She never meant to say "accident", you see. There is far too much information about what she really thinks in a word like "accident". She really meant to say "incident". That is a nice, neutral word, devoid of any content beyond recognition that "something" happened.
This earlier, far too widely ignored post by grape crush examines in detail Ms. Ernst's true position on gun control, which amounts to opposition to the most basic and reasonable and widely popular steps that government could effectively take to actually try and keep the peace against these kinds of "incidents" which are so common in American communities and so rare in most other advanced nations. Outlawry is more her style, no matter how many children and other innocents must suffer and die. It is an unreasonably extreme position in today's America. As grape crush's post so succinctly summed it up:
Being against licensing gun users is like being against licensing drivers.
Particularly in the Senate races, the more extreme the Republicans become in their primaries, the more beatable they will be in November if Democrats run smart.