‘These Kids Come From Broken Homes Without Dads’
Right wing culture warrior and anti-gay Christian extremist Rick Santorum used his platform as a CNN contributor to deliver his hot take on America’s gun violence pandemic. On Sunday’s “State of the Union” Santorum railed against what he sees as a common denominator in mass shootings: single mothers and the lack of fathers in the home.
“Gun control is a debate we need to have,” Santorum told the panel. “Another debate we need to have is something that’s also common in these shootings: there fact that these kids come from broken homes without dads. And that is not something that we’re talking about and that is a commonality.”
“We want to talk about things we can work together on, how about working together to try to see what we can do to try to get more dads involved” in the lives of their children, Santorum concluded.
Many watching were outraged and took to social media:
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