Tim McGraw wants 'common sense' gun control

Waving to his armed bodyguards

Country music singer Tim McGraw wants what he calls "common sense" gun control. This comes just a few weeks after the Las Vegas shooting that killed 58 people and injured hundreds more at a country music festival.

"Shucks, if there was a law against having so many guns, especially guns with bump-stocks, this tragedy woulda never happened."

Of course McGraw didn't really say that but he's dumb enough to believe it.

In an interview with Billboard, he and his wife, Faith Hill, he actually said that gun rights are "not about the Second Amendment." He said that common sense needs to be part of the conversation.

Gun rights are NOT about the Second Amendment???

"Look, I'm a bird hunter--I love to wing-shoot," the hypocrite said as his security team scanned the room for possible terrorists. "However, there is some common sense that's necessary when it comes to gun control. They want to make it about the Second Amendment every time it's brought up. It's not about the Second Amendment," he emphasized, revealing how little he knows about the U.S. Constitution and the Second Amendment in particular. 

"In reference to the tragedy in Las Vegas, we knew a lot of people there," McGraw said, believing that because he knew someone there, it gave his claim credibility. "The doctors that treated the wounded, they saw wounds like you'd see in war. That's not right."

Of course that isn't right, you moron, but what does that have to do with gun control?

The problem that we're seeing lately isn't that we need more gun control, we need to better uphold the law regarding gun control. 

The church massacre in Sutherland Springs, Texas is a prime example of how a person who never should have gotten a gun slipped through the cracks. 

The U.S. Air Force gave the shooter a Bad Conduct Discharge and never put him in the federal data base. The shooter once escaped from a mental hospital and served time in military prison. He beat his wife and fractured the skull of his step-son. He was legally ineligible to own a firearm.

It isn't that we need more gun control--we need to ensure that it works and people are held responsible for when it doesn't. 

You want something to screw up--give it to the government to handle.

McGraw and Hill performed at the Country Music Association Awards this week. McGraw also said that military-style assault weapons should not be available to civilians, and called on the NRA to acknowledge the danger of civilians owning such weapons. He naively said it would make for a "safe country," but had not a shred of evidence to make that claim.

They don't use "assault weapons" in Chicago--they use "assault handguns."

Generally, there's no way to prevent a crazy person with a gun, a knife, a car, axe, baseball bat or a truck from killing innocent people. But it was a hero with an "assault rifle" that stopped the Texas shooter from killing more people.

McGraw is just another liberal with armed bodyguards who knows better than the rest of us peons what's best for the world.



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At least 26 dead, and 20 wounded

At least 20 people are feared dead and about the same number wounded in the small Texas town of Sutherland Springs 30 miles from San Antonio, on Sunday.

The mass murders occurred at First Baptist Church, which usually has about 50 church members at the service. If the number of dead is confirmed, this will be the deadliest massacre at a church in modern U.S. history.

The motive at this time is unknown but the gunman has been shot and killed by police.

Wilson County Commissioner Larry Wiley told Fox News that an emergency responder reported between 20 and 24 people had been killed and 20 were wounded when a man walked into the church around 11:30 a.m. local time on Sunday and began shooting at the congregation.

"It's horrible," Wiley said. "It appears someone walked in and started shooting."

The church's pastor, Frank Pomeroy, said his 14-year-old daughter was killed in the shooting, as reported by ABC News.

A spokesperson for Connally Memorial Medical Center in Floresville, Megan Posey, said "We have accepted a multiple number of patients from the shooting," but didn't specify a number. The Medical Center is located 15 miles from the scene of the slaughter.

It was reported by Fox News that a 2-year-old was also struck by a bullet.

Some of the victims were transported to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.

The FBI is also on the scene.

According to Wiley, the shooter was killed about five miles away in Guadalupe County after being cornered by law enforcement.

Sutherland Springs is a small town of about 400 people. Most know each other so it stands to reason that the entire town will be devastated and will require intervention to deal with post traumatic stress that will undoubtedly follow in the next few days.

President Trump is traveling in Asia and tweeted: "May God be w/the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The FBI & law enforcement are on the scene. I am monitoring the situation from Japan."

Of course some politicians followed up with obvious statements meant to console the inconsolable. And you know the liberals will be politicizing this horrible massacre and call for more gun control--right after they accused President Trump of politicizing the recent terrorist truck attack in lower Manhattan by his wanting to close the Diversity Visa Program.

Sadly, it's all politics.

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