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30 May, 2014

‘Joe the Plumber’ attacks victims’ parents

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Samuel Wurzelbacher, who rose to fame as the conservative spokesperson “Joe the Plumber,” issues an “open letter” to Richard Martinez and the other parents of the Isla Vista massacre. After a brief expression of sympathy, Wurzelbacher tells the parents:

Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights.

He then attacks Martinez for becoming a “tool” of the “gun-grab” movement:

[T]he words and images of Mr. Martinez blaming ‘the proliferation of guns’, lobbyists, politicians, etc.; will be exploited by gun-grab extremists as are all tragedies involving gun violence and the mentally ill by the anti-Second Amendment Left.

Wurzelbacher goes on to claim that Rodger was almost certainly “an Obama voter,” and concludes:

I cannot begin to imagine the pain you are going through, having had your child taken away from you. However, any feelings you have toward my rights being taken away from me, lose those.

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