CBS Legal Exec: No Sympathy For Vegas ‘Because Country Music Fans Often Are Republican’
A top legal executive at CBS, Hayley Geftman-Gold, said she “is not even sympathetic” for the victims of the shooting at a country music festival at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas Sunday night.
“If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs will ever do the right thing,” wrote Geftman-Gold on Facebook, perhaps referring to Sandy Hook. “I’m actually not even sympathetic bc country music fans often are Republican gun toters.”
Later Monday, CBS announced that Geftman-Gold had been fired.
Stephen Paddock of Mesquite, Nev. opened fire on a crowd of 22,000 country music concert goers from the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas late Sunday night. More than 50 people are dead, and 400 others were left injured after the shooting spree finally ended when the shooter turned the gun on himself.
“The gunfire began during a performance by the singer Jason Aldean, the closing act of the Route 91 Harvest Festival, according to Gail Davis, who was in the audience of more than 22,000,” reports The New York Times.
CBS has a history of hostility towards Republicans. Shortly after the attack on the GOP congressional baseball team gravely injuring Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise in June, former CBS anchor Scott Pelley questioned whether the shooting was “foreseeable, predictable and to some degree, self-inflicted.”
The original thread was deleted, but not by Geftman-Gold.
CBS did not immediately respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation for comment. http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/02/cbs-legal-exec-no-sympathy-because-country-music-fans-often-are-republican/
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"“If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs will ever do the right thing,” wrote Geftman-Gold on Facebook"
I disagree, IF enough rich white people started dying from guns conservatives would ... do something.
So it's the fault of rich white people that there are not "common sense" gun laws? What laws do you think are common sense and how would they prevent this type of attack?
I think a good common sense law was the one we used to have that banned extended magazines. The gun nuts fought successfully to have it repealed. Remember the Giffords shooting? Loughner had a 30 round mag and was stopped when he had to reload. What are extended mags really good for other than enabling a more successful rampage? Banning them was a good, common sense gun law, however, if we went with my idea on gun control, we wouldn't have to ban any weapons or equipment...
It sounds good on paper but is not enforceable. With a 3d printer they can be made easily.
I bought 30 round mags at the end of the "ugly gun ban". The law did nothing. Homicide was on the decline when it went into effect and continued to decline after it expired.
There are ways to target individuals. Loughner was a known person and with a Gun Restraining order law like CA he could have been adjudicated and put on the prohibited list. Actually a 30 round mag for handgun rounds is unreliable because of the taper of the cartridge. Two 15 round handguns are more reliable. The higher the capacity of the mag the more unreliable it becomes.
Ahh yes, the age-old gun argument: "they'll get the guns anyway" Of course, the same can be said of any crime, so by that attitude we should not have any laws at all. And you even managed to surpass the ridiculousness of that argument with the 'extended mags are unreliable' argument. We don't have to ban them because they don't work reliably enough?? Loughner's worked.
I didn't say that, I said IF enough rich white people started dying something would be done. and it would.
Poor people don't elect politicians, rich mainly white people do with their money.
Look at what it costs to run a successful political campaign and think about WHO pays for it.
He who owns the gold makes the rules , always has been, probably always will be.
The left claims it was a bunch of poor white hillbillies that elected Trump.
They will.
You are demonstrating you lack of understanding of mag design. I have made them from sheet metal for obsolete or hard to find models.
I could teach you about cartridge taper and curvature of the mag caused by the taper. How the follower has a difficult time functioning as it is forced by the spring to follow that curve. Mags curve because tapered cartridges in a straight mag don't feed correctly.
As to Loughner. Instead of a ban that affects all of us he could have been targeted because of his well known bizarre behavior. The CA gun restraining order would have removed his guns and placed him on the prohibited list until he was adjudicated.
Target the problem person before they act and not the whole country. It can be done!
I always hear them say," it was a bunch of poor stupid white hillbillies that elected Trump.
That changes the meaning of poor.
lol
Like I said, Loughner's worked. He got off more rounds because of the extended mag. He was stopped when he had to reload, period. Game, set, and match pal, you can take your mag designs and curvatures and stick 'em where the sun don't shine. And by the way, there WAS a 'good guy with a gun' there. He came out of the mall just as Loughner's gun was being taken away from him. He almost shot the guy who took Loughner's gun. Thankfully he didn't shoot before accurately analyzing the situation.
Also, I asked a simple question earlier that you still haven't answered. What are extended mags really good for other than enabling a more successful rampage? Comment removed for skirting the CoC [ph]
My reply was to someone BSing about BS from others... No reality to begin with.. all BS.
"Those poor stupid people" to me means about the same as "those unfortunately stupid people" anyway.
those poor stupid people .
nothing to do with the amount of cash in their account. It's all word play. no reality.
And many don't. he could do the same with two handguns.
Stick it where the sun don't shine?
That personal attack doesn't fly here. This isn't the vine!
"CBS executive Hayley Geftman-Gold wrote in a Facebook post that she was not “sympathetic” to the victims of the Las Vegas shooting because “country music fans often are Republican gun-toters.”
A person who wants "common sense" gun laws?
Get canned for saying what many on the left think. Those same voices popped up after the Scalise shooting.
Her response was and is sickening and is symptom of the malaise that infects the United States these days.
The question is, do you want to leave the power in the hands of the people and the states they live in or do you want to grow a more centralized government? The so-called 'more common sense gun laws' are always a threat against the Second Amendment and the people of the states recognize that. The people who value a more centralized government are always a threat to the Freedoms and Liberty of the people of this nation whether they realize it or not. This is a balancing act that has always determined whether a people are free or just subjects of the country they live in.
The left wing gun grabber anti-second amendment crowd simply want registration followed by confiscation. They just won't admit it. They simply can't let go of the idea that more and "stricter" gun laws will prevent future shootings. They forget that criminals ignore laws, determined killers will get what they want on the black market, buy covertly from criminals, buy from friends and neighbors in a private sale, or simply steal the guns they want.
Logical common sense thinking and reasoning does not come easy to them...they tend to rely on hope in a fantasy lalal land.