GOP senate candidate in Georgia, Herschel Walker gave a nonsensical answer about surveilling social media to prevent future mass shootings, days after an 18-year-old murdered 19 children and two teachers at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Asked about gun control legislation during one of his Fox News appearances on Thursday, Walker decried “people that’s trying to score political points” and like every Republican, blame mental health.
“We need to get into what happened to him, why, by putting money in mental health. Have people thought about that?” Walker said. “We’ve gotta get back into prayer. People thinking now praying is bad. No, it’s not bad. We need to pray for things like that. We need to continue to go out and fight, continue to take your constitutional rights away, and I think we can’t do that.”
Hard to imagine but, things got worse.
“Cain killed Abel and that’s a problem that we have,” Walker said. “What we need to do is look into how we can stop those things. You know, you talked about doing a disinformation — what about getting a department that can look at young men that’s looking at women that’s looking at their social media. What about doing that? Looking into things like that and we can stop that that way.”
He kept going: “But yet they want to just continue to talk about taking away your constitutional rights. And I think there’s more things we need to look into. This has been happening for years and the way we stop it is putting money into the mental health field, by putting money into other departments rather than departments that want to take away your rights.”
This is the second time Walker fumbled a question about gun control after the Texas massacre. At his victory party Tuesday night he was asked by a CNN reporter whether there should be new gun laws in the wake of the mass shooting.
“What I like to do is see it and everything and stuff,” he said
