On Wednesday, another mass shooting occurred in San Bernardino, CA, at a social care center for people with developmental disabilities. Before police had even identified the shooter, liberal journalists on Twitter came to their own conclusions: It must be a crazy right-winger.
Without a second thought, they blamed conservatives, the GOP and the NRA for the shooting.
Less than an hour into the breaking news of the shooting, Markos Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos and co-founder of Vox, blamed the GOP for “shooting up America.”
Yo GOP, kinda hard to talk about "keeping people safe" when your peeps are shooting up America.
— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) December 2, 2015
M.S. Bellows, Jr., a contributor to The Guardian, Alternet and Huffington Post advocated violence against NRA members, comparing them to Nazis:
Can someone explain to me how shooting NRA board members would be any different, morally, than, say, bombing the Nazi Reichstag?
— M.S. Bellows, Jr. (@msbellows) December 2, 2015
He went on to blame the NRA for “stoking the conditions for mass shootings”:
@presidentjlh I don't buy that. They are stoking the conditions for mass shootings, to increase gun sales, for money.
— M.S. Bellows, Jr. (@msbellows) December 2, 2015
Vox’s Matt Yglesias made this slam at conservatives:
Other countries must have fewer mass shootings because their conservative politicians offer thoughts and prayers more vigorously.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 2, 2015
At the same time, former Cosmopolitan senior political editor and columnist for The Guardian, Jill Filipovic joined in the call for the GOP to adopt stricter gun control:
If only there were something politicians could offer, other than thoughts and prayers, to stop gun violence. https://t.co/Ga9qkBgLkE
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) December 2, 2015
And claimed that the NRA “supports irresponsible gun owners”:
The NRA. https://t.co/toClmB0r12
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) December 2, 2015
Christine Nangle, a writer for Inside Amy Schumer, blamed pro-lifers:
Why don't actual "Pro-life" people protest gun stores in the same way anti-choice protest Planned Parenthood?
— Christine Nangle (@nanglish) December 2, 2015
While sex columnist and liberal troll Dan Savage said this about GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson and conservative columnist Ben Shapiro:
Go fuck yourselves, Bens. pic.twitter.com/FEfj3jKrj9
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) December 2, 2015
