‘Ignore Guns, Talk Inflation’: Memos Show GOP Strategy After the Uvalde Massacre

[Big Bend Texas]

‘Stay cool. Run out the clock. Scare some gun nuts while you can. But don’t worry: this moment will be over soon.

That’s the message the Republican Party, Donald Trump, and conservative leaders rapidly coalesced around after a series of mass shootings in recent weeks, including at one at a Texas elementary school.

Several strategy memos and private communications, prepared for a variety of conservative candidates and organizations, reviewed by Rolling Stone in the days following the Uvalde school massacre were clear: change the topic to literally anything else, and let this news cycle run its course.

“Ignore guns, talk inflation,” one such memo, written for a top-tier GOP Senate candidate, succinctly reads, citing polling data of voter concerns ahead of the critical 2022 midterm elections. Other documents predictably decried liberal desires for “gun-grabbing” and “gun confiscation,” and made whataboutism-type references to gun violence in Chicago.’

'Ignore Guns, Talk Inflation': Memos Show GOP Strategy After the Uvalde Massacre

The GOP plan? Change the topic to literally anything else. Trump, for his part, “talked a lot more about Johnny Depp than he did about guns”

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Run out the clock until November, of course.

With control of Congress next January, Republicans can ignore mass shootings, gun crime and violence altogether.

Speaking of "whataboutism" democrats are doing everything humanly possible to keep people's minds and discussions off of just how bad the economy is between now and election day.

Republicans are right not to get pulled off topic.

 

[Weatherman2020]

No shit, did you figure that out all by yourself. How many mass killings have you seen where 5 or 6 people are strangled to death by one man?

More of the same dumb ass talking points. Nobody is trying to take folks guns, folks are talking about military style weapons. Have you ever served? Have you ever seen what an M16 will do to a human body? Ask the parents of Uvalde or as the black families of the black folks who were gunned down in a grocery store in Buffalo, NY.

You're a boot licking idiot, plain and simple. How many black folks do you even associate with? Does your white husband allow you to even go around your family? Trump said he was going to stop the violence in Chicago and it would be done in a week and it would be easy, so much for that bullshit. Who is pumping the guns into Chicago and Baltimore? Who is pumping the drugs into the crime ridden cities as you call them? Do you even know anybody that lives in any of these cities?

Why Black Americans Are Buying More Guns: The people who bear the brunt of rising violent crime are taking steps to protect themselves.

 

[Big Bend Texas]

Why Black Americans Are Buying More Guns: The people who bear the brunt of rising violent crime are taking steps to protect themselves.

For the last six years my classes have all been predominantly female and black or Hispanic.

Properly handled firearms don't just level the playing field they give would be victims a distinct advantage.

 

[Flash]

Talk doing away with the 2nd Amendment; ignore massive inflation, high cost of energy, tremendous crime, millions of Illegals and reduced family income - Democrat strategy talking points after Uvalde massacre.

 

[2aguy]

Why are Democrats holding up two bipartisan bills that would actually address gun violence?

Because a mass school shooting is Christmas morning for them.....the dead kids are gifts under their gun control tree....

If they prevent mass public shootings, in particular mass school shootings, they would never be able to stampede uninformed Americans into giving them power to ban and confiscate guns....

 

[Failzero]

Republicans will do nothing about gun crime and violence in an effort to appease this important component of their voting base.

Until Democommies realize that 2A/RTKBA is NOT about (Hunting) ( Bench rest) ( Historical /Collecting) (Trap & Skeet) (3 Gun Competition) ...

 

[struth]

So the Dem message is, let's talk about taking away 2nd Amendment rights from law abiding citizens and ignore the massive xiden inflation that is harming America and making people more poor?

Interesting game plan

 

[Big Bend Texas]

How many mass school shootings 1900-1960?
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That is when the US actually had a "Gun Culture" and as a result, very little violent crime committed with firearms.

 

[Flash]

Democrats want zero publicly owned guns and zero election accountability. I can’t imagine why.

 

[Big Bend Texas]

Democrats want zero publicly owned guns and zero election accountability. I can’t imagine why.

They kind of go hand in hand... .

 

[WEATHER53]

Does that mean you can't show me?

Deliberately obtuse. Guns or arms.

 

[WEATHER53]

You mean to tell me Lightfoot would let a Republican come in and fix Chicago's problems?

A fact based crackdown on criminals is unwanted by the voting block of those areas. That’s why conservatives can’t win there

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Deliberately obtuse. Guns or arms.

Arms could be guns, bombs, missiles, ships, tanks, etc.

 

[WEATHER53]

Arms could be guns, bombs, missiles, ships, tanks, etc.

Except that in 1700’s there were no tanks, bombs, ships for Individuals to utilize which is what it addresses
Rum dumb dummy apples to bazookas fails again.?

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Except that in 1700’s there were no tanks, bombs, ships for Individuals to utilize which is what it addresses
Rum dumb dummy apples to bazookas fails again.?

There were no AR15s, M16s, Machine guns either. Why shouldn't I be able to purchase a LAW or TOW it is considered as ARMS.

arms
/ärmz/
See definitions in:
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noun

1. 1.
   weapons and ammunition; armaments.
   "arms exports"
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   Similar:
   weapons (of war)
   
   weaponry
   
   
   firearms
   
   
   guns
   
   
   ordnance
   
   
   cannon
   
   
   artillery
   
   armaments
   munitions instruments of war
   war machines
   military supplies materiel
   
   
   
2. 2.
   distinctive emblems or devices originally borne on shields in battle and now forming the heraldic insignia of families, corporations, or countries.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Republicans will do nothing about gun crime and violence in an effort to appease this important component of their voting base.

Yo Jones, how's those strict gun laws in blue shit holes working out for you ?

"Watches Jones'shit himself and run away

 

[WEATHER53]

There were no AR15s, M16s, Machine guns either. Why shouldn't I be able to purchase a LAW or TOW it is considered as ARMS.

arms
/ärmz/
See definitions in:
All
Military
Heraldry
Biology
Clothing
Sport
Mathematics
Finance
noun

1. 1.
   weapons and ammunition; armaments.
   "arms exports"
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   Similar:
   weapons (of war)
   
   weaponry
   
   
   firearms
   
   
   guns
   
   
   ordnance
   
   
   cannon
   
   
   artillery
   
   armaments
   munitions instruments of war
   war machines
   military supplies materiel
   
   
   
2. 2.
   distinctive emblems or devices originally borne on shields in battle and now forming the heraldic insignia of families, corporations, or countries.

Word parser hard at work. Bless his little heart but no thinker and few emoters need a special distinction between guns and arms

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Word parser hard at work. Bless his little heart but no thinker and few emoters need a special distinction between guns and arms

So it is like the Bible, you don't take the words at face value. You interpret them to fit your madness.

 

[daveman]

Republicans will do nothing about gun crime and violence in an effort to appease this important component of their voting base.

Democrats will do nothing about gun crime and violence because shootings serve their agenda.

 

[daveman]

Hmmmmmm….like ignoring the fact that joe Biden’s son committed a felony by lying on the Federal gun background check to buy a gun?

You mean like that?

It's impossible for Jonesy to see his hypocrisy or criticize his masters.