Missouri Republican Billy Long Blames Mass Shootings on Abortion

[Blkfyre]

https://www.newsweek.com/billy-long-abortion-responsible-guns-mass-shootings-1713119

Because, of course he does:

"Rep. Billy Long, who serves Missouri, made the startling claims on Columbia radio station 93.9 The Eagle. The 66-year-old said: "It's a systemic problem. When I was growing up in Springfield, you had one or two murders a year. Now, we have two, three, four a week in Springfield, Missouri, so something has happened to our society, and I go back to abortion. When we decided it was OK to murder kids in their mother's wombs, life has no value to a lot of these folks."

Long seemed certain of his theory during the radio interview on June 1, with the politician placing the blame for recent atrocities—such as teenage gunman Salvador Ramos murdering 19 children and 2 teachers in a massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas — squarely at the door of women's access to abortion. He believes Roe v. Wade, which saw the Supreme Court legalize abortion in 1973, also had the side effect of encouraging mass murder. He has previously said he supports the abolition of the law. He made the direct link between abortion and mass shootings in response to a question about whether there was any appetite for increased gun control within his party.

Long's Twitter feed has a pinned a clip of a Donald Trump rally in Nebraska, in which the former president singled him out of the crowd for a round of applause. "He's a great guy. He's a character too, but he's a great guy," Trump said of Long.

[Hobby]

So what? There are crackpots in both parties... Abortions do kill more people per year than guns do.

[HighStepper]

The problem is that heretofore "crackpots" in the Republican Party are now becoming mainstream in the Party.