Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett Wins Award for Most F–ked-Up Response to Covenant College Capturing

Hours after three youngsters and three adults have been murdered on the Covenant College in Tennessee on Monday, Republican congressman Tim Burchett beat out all his conservative friends to win the award for essentially the most callous, f–ked-up response to the mass capturing, the thirty eighth because the begin of this month. Word: This award isn’t truly actual and there’s no medal or financial sum to be collected for coming in first, making Burchett’s response all of the extra jaw-dropping.

Chatting with reporters, outdoors the Capitol, Burchett mentioned that what had occurred was “a horrible, horrible state of affairs”—after which declared: “we’re not going to repair it.” (Emphasis ours.) To be clear, the lawmaker wasn’t saying this to underscore the collective frustration and emotions of rage tens of millions of People really feel for politicians who proceed to permit most of these “state of affairs[s]” to happen, provide “ideas and prayers,” after which refuse to move significant gun management laws; he was saying “we’re not going to repair it” as a result of he thinks that’s right plan of action. “Criminals are going to be criminals,” he continued, including: “And my daddy fought within the Second World Battle, fought within the Pacific, fought the Japanese, and he advised me, he mentioned, ‘Buddy,’ he mentioned, ‘if anyone needs to take you out and doesn’t thoughts dropping their life, there’s not an entire heck of so much you are able to do about it.’”

Extremely, he went on: Requested if he thinks “there’s any position for Congress to play in response [to Covenant School shooting],” Burchett doubled down, saying: “I don’t see any actual position that we may do apart from mess issues up actually due to the state of affairs…I don’t assume our criminals are going to cease from [getting] weapons, you recognize you’ll be able to print them out on the pc now, 3D printing…I don’t assume you’re going to cease the gun violence. I feel you’ve acquired to vary folks’s hearts. As a Christian as we speak about within the church, I’ve mentioned this many instances, I feel we actually want a revival on this nation.”