Dem Bush's just ain't too good with dem word things, feel me?
Speaking today in Greenville, South Carolina, Hispanic president-wannabe John Ellis Jeb! Bush was talking about the right to bear arms in the context of the Oregon shootings and stepped in deep doo-doo. Says, Jeb:
"We're in a difficult time in our country and I don't think that more government is necessarily the answer to this. I think we need to reconnect ourselves with everybody else. It's just, it's very sad to see. 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."
When a reporter asked Bush whether the remark was a mistake, he replied: "No, it wasn’t a mistake, I said exactly what I said, explain to me what I said wrong."
"You said 'stuff happens,'" the reporter said.
"Things happen all the time," Bush said. "Things -- is that better?"
He later elaborated: "Things happen all the time. A child drowns in a pool and the impulse is to pass a law that puts fencing around a pool... The cumulative effect of this is that in some cases, you don’t solve the problem by passing the law and you’re imposing on large numbers of people burdens that make it harder for our economy to grow, make it harder to protect liberty."
"I don't even think I have to react to that one. I think the American people should hear that and make their own judgments based on the fact that every couple of months we have a mass shooting. And they can decide whether they consider that 'stuff happening.'"
Speaking today in Greenville, South Carolina, Hispanic president-wannabe John Ellis Jeb! Bush was talking about the right to bear arms in the context of the Oregon shootings and stepped in deep doo-doo. Says, Jeb:
"We're in a difficult time in our country and I don't think that more government is necessarily the answer to this. I think we need to reconnect ourselves with everybody else. It's just, it's very sad to see. 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."
Da Washington Post says,
"You said 'stuff happens,'" the reporter said.
"Things happen all the time," Bush said. "Things -- is that better?"
He later elaborated: "Things happen all the time. A child drowns in a pool and the impulse is to pass a law that puts fencing around a pool... The cumulative effect of this is that in some cases, you don’t solve the problem by passing the law and you’re imposing on large numbers of people burdens that make it harder for our economy to grow, make it harder to protect liberty."
President Obama says,
