Mike Pence calls for ‘quick executions’ for mass shooters at NRA conference: VP takes stage to BOOS
Mike Pence calls for ‘quick executions’ for mass shooters at NRA conference: VP booed in home state during speech calling for ‘institutionalization of the clearly mentally ill’ and hard beating ‘trans activist’ in school murder Nashville
- “I love you too,” Pence said sarcastically at the Indianapolis event about an hour before former President Trump spoke
- The former vice president called for armed guards in all schools and the expansion of mental health facilities in the US
Vice President Mike Pence took the stage to cheers at the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) annual leadership summit in his home state.
“I love you too,” Pence said sarcastically at the event in Indianapolis, about an hour before former President Trump.
Pence called for the execution of mass shooters as soon as possible and blamed transgender people and mental illness for the country’s chronic gun violence.
“I am tired of the senseless violence and loss of life that could have been avoided if our leaders supported law enforcement, protected our schools, institutionalized the clearly mentally ill, and passed legislation that would ensure that anyone engaging in this horrific acts of mass violence will meet their fate in months, not years,” Pence said.
Vice President Mike Pence took the stage to cheers at the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) annual leadership summit in his home state
“We don’t need gun control,” Pence added. “We need crime fighting.”
The former vice president called for armed guards in US public and private schools. “The answer to mass shootings is not less guns,” he said. “It’s more institutional mental health.”
“By ignoring the motivations of the trans activist who killed three children and three adults at that Nashville Christian school, and the ‘mental health challenges’ of the man who killed five people and injured eight others in Louisville, President Biden and the Democrats have bounced back against the same tired arguments about gun control and confiscation,” Pence said.
The female shooter at Covenant Christian school in Nashville used masculine pronouns on social media.
Pence called on the US to “go back to institutional mental health settings.”
Pence addressed the crowd before Trump. The former running mates and close allies now prepare for a political duel against each other as Pence goes ahead with plans to enter the presidential race.
Trump’s comments were his first public appearance since he was arrested in New York last week and charged with misdemeanor charges stemming from hush money payments.
“I love you too,” Pence said sarcastically at the Indianapolis event, hours before his former running mate spoke to former President Trump
A day earlier, Trump spent eight hours in Attorney General Letitia James’ New York office over her $250 million lawsuit alleging fraud in his business practices.
Trump and another GOP presidential candidate – former Vice President Mike Pence – speak with gun rights activists at the NRA convention in Indianapolis.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott and United Nations Ambassador, the other three GOP front runners in the presidential election, also appear via video messages.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson and candidate Vivek Ramaswamy appear in person, as do Indiana Senator Mike Braun and Rep. Jim Jordan from Ohio.
NRA annual leadership attendees listen to the national anthem
Guests inspect merchandise while attending the 152nd National Rifle Association Convention at the Indiana Convention Center on April 14, 2023 in Indianapolis, Indiana
The convention comes in the wake of mass shootings in Kentucky and Tennessee – this week a gunman killed five people at a bank in Louisville, Ky.
The convention comes in the wake of mass shootings in Kentucky and Tennessee – this week a gunman killed five people at a bank in Louisville, Ky. Three weeks ago, a gunman killed three children and three adults at a Nashville elementary school.
The convention also falls on the anniversary of the Indianapolis mass shooting that killed 9 people at a Fedex facility.
Last year’s NRA convention took place in Houston, Texas, days after 19 children and two adults were killed by a gunman a few hundred miles west of Uvalde, Texas.
But NRA President Wayne LaPierre, undeterred by the shootings, said “politicians who hate guns should never go to bed without fear of what this association and all our millions of members can do to their political careers.”
Last year, Congress passed the most significant gun reform in decades