{"id":54851,"date":"2023-05-08T18:34:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54851"},"modified":"2023-05-08T18:34:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:34:31","slug":"allen-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54851","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Self disgraces himself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Keith Self has taken no time at all during his first term in Congress to demonstrate a level of boorishness that astounds many millions of us.<\/p>\n

Self, a Republican House member whose congressional district represents Allen, Texas — the scene this past weekend of the latest mass shooting — decided to declare that those who question whether “thoughts and prayers” are insufficient in deterring these acts of madness “don’t believe in an almighty God.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWell,\u201d Self said in a now viral video, \u201cthose are people that don\u2019t believe in an almighty God who has, who is absolutely in control of our lives. I\u2019m a Christian, I believe that he is. We have people though, with mental health [issues] that we\u2019re not taking care of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rep. Self, I, too, am a Christian. I also believe in God’s infinite power. I also believe that human beings do things that are out of the Almighty’s control.<\/p>\n

For this guy to say that everyone who wants legislative action to deter future acts of madness don’t believe as he does is demagoguery at its worst.<\/p>\n

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Keith Self has taken no time at all during his first term in Congress to demonstrate a level of boorishness that astounds many millions of us. Self, a Republican House member whose congressional district represents Allen, Texas — the scene this past weekend of the latest mass shooting — decided to declare that those who … Continue reading Rep. Self disgraces himself<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8688],"tags":[2037,7419],"class_list":["post-54851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54852,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54851\/revisions\/54852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}