{"id":2438,"date":"2023-10-28T13:24:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T13:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2023-10-28T13:24:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T13:24:33","slug":"white-house-outraged-that-new-house-speaker-said-guns-dont-kill-people-people-kill-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2438","title":{"rendered":"White House Outraged That New House Speaker Said Guns Don&#8217;t Kill People, People Kill People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_2290525913-scaled.jpg\" data-caption=\"Shutterstock\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_2290525913-696x464.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_2290525913-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_2290525913-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_2290525913-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_2290525913-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_2290525913-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_2290525913-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_2290525913-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_2290525913-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_2290525913-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_2290525913-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/shutterstock_2290525913-560x373.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"Speaker Mike Johnson\" title=\"Speaker Mike Johnson\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The White House rebuked comments [House Speaker Rep. Mike] Johnson made to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night, a day after 18 people were killed in two mass shootings in Maine, in which Johnson said that guns are not the cause of America\u2019s unique mass shooting crises.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Saying that it was \u201cnot the time\u201d to talk about gun control, he told Hannity, \u201cThe problem is the human heart. It\u2019s not guns, it\u2019s not the weapons. At the end of the day, we have to protect the right of the citizens to protect themselves, and that\u2019s the Second Amendment, and that\u2019s why our party stands so strongly for that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates issued a blistering response to the notion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cWe absolutely reject the offensive accusation that gun crime is uniquely high in the United States because of Americans\u2019 \u2018hearts,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cGun crime is uniquely high in the United States because congressional Republicans have spent decades choosing the gun industry\u2019s lobbyists over the lives of innocent Americans.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014 Mark Alfred in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/maine-shooting-biden-white-house-rips-mike-johnsons-offensive-comment\">White House Rips New GOP Speaker\u2019s \u2018Offensive\u2019 Mass Shooting Comment<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/white-house-outraged-that-new-house-speaker-said-guns-dont-kill-people-people-kill-people\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shutterstock Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 The White House rebuked comments [House Speaker Rep. Mike] Johnson made to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night, a day after 18 people were killed in two mass shootings in Maine, in which Johnson said that guns are not the cause of America\u2019s unique mass shooting crises. 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