MSNBC’s Joy Reid on Monday responded to the latest U.S. mass shooting — the killing of eight people at a Dallas-area mall — with a damning critique of the Republican response to gun violence.
“We are all literally on a Russian roulette lottery, just waiting for it to be our turn to run screaming from gunfire,” said “The ReidOut” host.
“If you managed to not get dead in a mall, at a restaurant in the Walmart or another store, at a concert, at church, in school, in third grade, at high school or in college, or even inside your own home, consider yourself lucky,” she continued. “Because America is a shooting gallery.”
“And all that Republicans have to offer for this constant state of terror are ‘thoughts of prayers,’” Reid added.
After examining right-wing interpretations of the Constitution’s Second Amendment, Reid said: “What Republicans are basically saying is that their precious Second Amendment is a suicide pact, a murder pact and a national consent to get slaughtered at the mall.”
