Gov. Ron DeSantis is demanding answers from the Joe Biden administration in the wake of Saturday’s assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump.
“D.C. bureaucratic failures almost never result in any accountability; this time needs to be different. Our country is in the peril it’s in partly because the D.C. ruling class has consistently evaded responsibility for its failures,” DeSantis asserts.
The Governor urges “an investigation regarding the security protocols used in Butler.”
“The answer to the following question must be provided in short order,” DeSantis says. “How did someone armed with a rifle get on top of a roof 150 yards away from the stage?”
While in Congress, DeSantis was notably at a scene of political violence, encountering the man who shot Rep. Steve Scalise before tragedy struck at a practice for the Congressional baseball game in 2017.
He invoked that event in his comments Sunday, saying, “The feds categorized the crazed, leftist congressional baseball shooter as “suicide by cop” — even though the shooter had a well-documented left-wing political bent and made sure that the players on the field were Republicans before attacking.”
DeSantis said he and a colleague “reported to police that there was a gentleman that confronted us when we were going to our car, and he wanted to know whether it was Republicans or Democrats that were out there. We said it was Republicans, and he kind of started walking to the field.”
The Governor often has been compelled to address high-profile shooting deaths, a challenge sometimes given his belief in unfettered gun rights and the right to permitless carry.
He has blamed such events on an “underlying sickness in our society” and “liberal, soft-on-crime policies.” He has said institutionalization is a potential solution for mass murders, saying, “Some people are going to do better in an institutional setting.”
He has also mocked the idea, promulgated by leaders in other states, that gun violence is a “public health emergency.” He links that to what he sees as alarmism over COVID.
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