‘Gun control is too hard’: Internet rains hell on Rick Santorum for blaming school shootings on single moms – By David Badash (The New Civil Rights Movement) / Feb 25 2018
Right wing culture warrior and anti-gay Christian extremist Rick Santorum used his platform as a CNN contributor to deliver his hot take on America’s gun violence pandemic. On Sunday’s “State of the Union” Santorum railed against what he sees as a common denominator in mass shootings: single mothers and the lack of fathers in the home.
“Gun control is a debate we need to have,” Santorum told the panel. “Another debate we need to have is something that’s also common in these shootings: there fact that these kids come from broken homes without dads. And that is not something that we’re talking about and that is a commonality.”
“We want to talk about things we can work together on, how about working together to try to see what we can do to try to get more dads involved” in the lives of their children, Santorum concluded.
Many watching were outraged and took to social media:
Gun control is too hard for Rick Santorum. Much easier to get a father in every home.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 25, 2018
@maggieNYT @RoguePhilMudd Rick Santorum on CNN just blamed single mothers as a main cause of males becoming mass shooters ('no father in the home'). Seriously @RickSantorum? You really want to go there?
— Dr Gina van Raphael 🇵🇸 (@AliaGvR) February 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/WitchCandee/status/967775526097125376
😂😂 Rick Santorum just blamed the mass shootings on lack of fathers in the shooters homes. He actually said we need more dads.
So there it is – more dads not less guns. Pathetic angle @RickSantorum
— Andrew R (@kidcue) February 25, 2018
What does not having a father in the home have anything to do with it? That's kind of sexist… No one's making the argument about mothers not being in the home for single-father families, Rick Santorum… #CNNSOTU
— Matt Griffin (@mattgriffinreal) February 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/nhdogmom/status/967775706162724865
OMFG😵 Just now on CNN while debating gun laws:
Santorum: "There is a commonality among the shooters, that there was no dad figure", he said "This is a serious thing we are not talking about"Jake: "Well Rick, Im not saying it's IRRELEVANT, but this kids dad had died, so ..😒" pic.twitter.com/MLCJfdp6EE
— Grammitude☮️🌈🇺🇦🌻✌️ (@Grammitude55) February 25, 2018
On @CNNSotu poor Rick Santorum says the #ParklandShooting happened because the shooter "didn't have a father in the home".
Really? How many kids without fathers kill 17 people in a gun rampage?#BanAssaultWeapons
— Darwin1800 (@Darwin1800) February 25, 2018
PB/TK – Remember the good old days when partisan pundits agreed on a scapegoat yet now everyone’s pointing in all different directions: Video games, single parent homes, multi-gendered tv shows, internet, porn, cats and dogs living together and so on
