Stupid quote of the day: Florida senator defends “thoughts and prayers”

FL State Sen. Kelli Stargel (R)

I thought I’d finished my blogging rounds for the day, but that was before I saw this breathtaking pronouncement from Florida State Sen. Kelli Stargel:

At a Saturday debate on a proposed assault weapons ban in the Florida legislature, Stargel said “it’s not the weapon, it’s the evil from within” that leads people to commit deadly crimes.

“When we say ‘thoughts and prayers,’ it’s frowned upon. And I take real offense at that because thoughts and prayers are really the only thing that’s gonna stop the evil from within the individual who is taking up their arms to do this kind of a massacre,” Stargel said.

I don’t suppose actually taking “their arms” out of their hands and making it harder for the to buy guns in the first place would help any. Better just keep praying to Jebus for a miracle instead.

You know what I “take real offense” at? Pious fools, elected by an equally pious and foolish voter base, who use their pulpit to babble about asking an imaginary sky-being to intervene in the country’s gun violence epidemic in lieu of actually doing anything substantive, such as passing even the most basic laws to make it harder for deranged individuals to buy guns. Those people deserve every ounce of contempt they receive and then some.

Who the fuck keeps sending these nattering kooks to legislative office? Can we just vote out their voters? Seems like that might fix several problems in one go, and possibly save some lives to boot.

(via Joe.My.God.)