The Huckster has called for arming parishioners to prevent more shootings.
The Mayor of Charleston is not remotely amused.
The mayor of Charleston, South Carolina questions the sanity of Mike Huckabee’s argument that better-armed parishioners could have stopped a deadly, racist terrorist attack that took place last week inside a church.
“That is so insane. That is so nutty I can’t even talk,” Joseph Riley told radio host Alan Colmes on Wednesday. “It’s crazy. Absolutely crazy. We want everybody to carry a gun and then you have everybody carrying a gun and then somebody gets upset and pull it out because they got it handy and they got mad all of a sudden and rather than argue, or take a swing at somebody, they just kill them. It’s crazy, that is insane.”
“I mean I knew these people,” Riley said. “I’m looking that their pictures right now in front of me. They weren’t going to be carrying handguns. You want an 87-year old retired lady or you want a minister to be carrying a handgun or a 78-year old retired lady that used to work for the city of Charleston? … You want those elderly people carrying handguns? Is that the best we can do in America?”
He demolishes Huckabee in particular but also smashes the NRA gun myth that more guns somehow equals more safety, which is the snake oil Huck's a-hawkin'..
There are no actual technical talking points for responding to Huck and this mythological belief system hawked by him and the NRA: data doesn't help, they merely ignore it.
I applaud the mayor for coming out and putting it plainly.