Obama: "It Shouldn't Be Routine" vs Bush: Stuff Happens"

Republicans Accept Mass Killings. Gun Control Advocates, Get Graphic. | The New Republic:
October 08, 2015

But even thinking in the most cynical terms, throwing “stuff happens” in Bush’s face to suggest he has no sympathy for victims of gun violence is a tactical error as well as an intellectual one. “Stuff happens,” Bush said. “There’s always a crisis. And the impulse is always to do something and it’s not always the right thing to do.” The trouble with this statement isn’t the phrase “stuff happens,” or even the (completely uncontroversial) observation that sometimes crises and tragedies have no obvious government remedies. The trouble is that Bush both ceded the point that some crises do merit government action, and also suggested that routine mass killings don’t fall into this category. “Stuff happens” wasn’t Bush’s response to the killings in Oregon last week—it’s the essence of his overall gun control policy, and the gun control policy of the entire Republican Party. Killing is senseless, but guns are great, and we must accept killings as a price of our freedom to own them.

Oh, Bullshit!

Compare Bush's comment that "Stuff Happens" with Obama's statements that 'we treat this as routine, and it shouldn't be routine!"

All of which he delivered off-the-cuff and with no understanding of the details of the incident.  Whoa!  Way to finesse the inability to read a teleprompter, Obama-Man!   Just ... make it sound bad, and make yourself sound wise and all-knowing even when you don't know shit!

(Damn!  I love it when he makes bullshit happen, and nobody notices!)

And yet, Obama has no better solutions to offer than does ANY of the Bush family.
Okay, I noticed THAT!

This article is a primer for Democratic response to Republican "Shit Happen" insouciance.

Republicans at least acknowledge that there is nothing they can do to stop public massacres in "Gun Free Zones".

Democrats dismiss this as unhelpful, but they can offer no solution themselves.

Okay, let's see if we can shortcut the political crap:  eliminate Gun Free Zones.

There, that's the whole thing.  Can't hurt, might help.  Politicos can't offer any solution at all.

GEEZ ... how politicos can ignore the obvious is beyond my ken!

Well, there IS another solution.

PS:  What's the origin of the Bush "STUFF HAPPENS" quote, you ask?

You can find it here:

While speaking at an event in South Carolina, Jeb Bush was asked to weigh in on mass shootings and what could be done about them. Bush’s answer was perfectly standard GOP boilerplate on the issue: “we’re in a difficult time in our country and I don’t think that more government is necessarily the answer to this,” he said. “But I resist the notion — and I did, I had this, this challenge as governor, because we have, look, stuff happens, there’s always a crisis and the impulse is always to do something and it’s not necessarily the right thing to do.” Answering questions after the event Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker‘s Washington correspondent, seemed to take personal offense to that response and approached Bush with his conclusion already in mind, suggesting what Bush said was a mistake and that he was doing his noble journalistic duty in giving him a chance to correct himself. Bush did not and Lizza took his own interpretation of two words to Twitter.

(NOT among the list of things I wish I would  has said, but .. oh, hell.  Stuff happens, and we all know that's true.)