Cory Booker: ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ for Gun Crime Victims Is ‘Bullsh*t’

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) delivers remarks as Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanau
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Democrat presidential hopeful Cory Booker told CNN offering “thoughts and prayers” for gun crime victims is “bullsh*t.”

Booker said, “We are not going to give thoughts and prayers, which to me is just bullsh*t.”

This is not the first time Booker has dismissed prayers for gun crime victims. On March 31, 2019, Breitbart News reported that Booker told a CNN town hall, “I am frustrated with politicians who, all the best they can muster, is to give thoughts and prayers.”

During that same event Booker claimed that America has, “in the aggregate, a mass shooting every day.” In other words, if you take two people shot in Democrat-controlled Chicago, add them to the two shot in Democrat-controlled Newark, New Jersey, and add in the one or two shot in Democrat-controlled St. Louis, you can count that a mass shooting.

Booker is also pushing TSA PreCheck-style interviews for would-be gun buyers, licensing, universal background checks, an “assault weapons” ban, and a host of other new gun laws.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

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