Greg Abbott made the comments on former NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch's radio show.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has told a right-wing radio host that there’s only one tool the state isn’t using to stop migrants from crossing the border into Texas: gun violence, because it would prompt a response from the pesky federal government.
“The only thing that we are not doing is we’re not shooting people who come across the border—because, of course, the Biden administration would charge us with murder,” the Republican governor told former NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch on her radio show last week.
Biden isn't a law enforcement official. He's not a DA. He's not a police officer. He doesn't have the ability to have you arrested. I suspect Abbott knows this, but his constituents are too fucking stupid to understand the difference.
in a "citizens arrest", sure. But he physically himself cannot perform police functions. If he orders an arrest and the arrest is illegal then that person would be acquitted.
On the other hand, if Abbot did indeed order his people to start murdering migrants, you know that the decision to move forward with prosecution would need at least a half nod from Biden. At least on the federal level.
Yeah because it’s federal policy not to just shoot somebody that crossed the border. Put the fucking politics aside for a second, this guy said the only reason we don’t kill them is because it’s against federal law. Yeah no shit.
"I'd totally murder people, but that evil federal government would lock me up for murder? Can you believe the audacity?!!! I really want to murder these people, but they won't let me. Total government overreach! Whatever happened to states' rights?"
Christians seem to be mostly all about leaning hard right these days (in spite of the teachings of the new testament) why would they want to protect left leaning people? Typo?
In fairness, despite the Bible saying murder is wrong, there's also a shitload of passages saying it's right. It's not really a piece of literature that makes a great deal of sense.
My 21 yr old daughter and i were talking about this article and I was like "I'd THIS IS SPARTA! this dickhead right down some stairs" fuck piss baby Abbott.
Have an upvote. To expand on this, all of Texas doesn't represent Texas or the USA. There is a non zero chance of Texas flipping blue in the next decade or so.
I'd shoot Abbott if I could, but it's immoral, and I'd get charged with murder, so I won't.
Is that how that goes? We can say that as long as we admit we won't do it because of the repercussions? Oh wait, this racist white racist trash is just pissed at the repercussions and not the immorality of the act. Fuck this peg leg piece of shit.
These people will literally apply the death penalty for jaywalkers as long as the jaywalker is "them* (i.e. non white l, male, or just someone they slightly disagree with) and then scream online about how theyre protected from censorship by the first amendment.
Will Christian Conservative Republicans like Abbott ever recognize that killing goes against their Gods Commandments? It seems these bloodthirsty degenerates conveniently overlook it.
It's so Christian to want to do that to poor people but to not do it to prevent legal trouble. Like Jesus said once in almost every page of that playbook...speed holes!
What about just shooting nazi's instead of migrants? Are we allowed to do that? What about nazi's in wheelchairs? It's not murder if it's not human, right?
Conservatives don't see normal people as humans, but boy do they hate it when that dehumanization is applied to them.
i guess Joe lives to ruin their notion of fun down in Texas.. hunting innocent neighbors in need when they're at their most vulnerable.. what a joyful place Texas must be..
I want to charge him with Treason and ordering an armed insurrection against the country. Take him out by force and keep him at GITMO until he can stand trial.
I don't think its an absurd position to defend an international border with force against those who would illegally cross it. Sovereign countries are sovereign.
It's barbaric. Disenfranchised people seeking a better life are not your enemy. The sociopathic lowlifes that rely on illegal labor so they can underpay their workers are the ones actively manipulating the system at every turn to make your life worse. And the situation has gone on for so long that if we did lock down the borders, with violence if necessary, our economy would immediately crash. But whereas common folks like us will be up a certain creek with no paddle, the jerks responsible for all of it would have a much better chance weathering the storm.
Sovereign countries make trade and peace deals. If they don't want to abide by those agreements they shouldnt have entered into them. So it's an unreasonable argument.