Ohio Lawmaker Blames Mass Shooting on LGBTQ+ Community

Republican State Representative for Ohio, Candice Keller, has caused anger amongst her constituents, and the wider community, by blaming recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio on the LGBTQ+ community.

In a post to her personal Facebook account she blamed the two incidents, which resulted in the deaths of 29 people, on 'the breakdown of the traditional American family'. The full post, which has since been removed reads as follows;

'After every mass shooting, the liberals star the blame game. Why not place the blame where it belongs?

'The breakdown of the traditional American family (thank you, transgender, homosexual marriage, and drag queen advocates); fatherlessness, a subject no one discusses or believes is relevant; the ignoring of violent video games; the relaxing of laws against criminals (open borders); the acceptance of recreational marijuana; failed school policies (hello, parents who defend misbehaving students): disrespect to law enforcement (thank you, Obama); hatred to our veterans (thank you, professional athletes who hate our flag and National Anthem); the Dem Congress, many members whom are openly anti-Semetic; the culture, which totally ignores the importance of God and the church (until they elect a President); state officials, who have no interest whatsoever in learning about our Constitution and the Second Amendment; and snowflakes, who can't accept a duly-elected President.

'Did I forget anybody? The list is long. And the fury will continue.'

The post, which is incredibly badly written, is a typical check list of blame targets for Republicans. The gays, immigrants, bad parents, protesters, Democrats, people who believe in gun control. It's a right wing nuts wet dream of blame. What Ms. Keller fails to acknowledge, however, is that almost all US mass shootings, and these two attacks in particular, are committed by white, cisgender, heterosexual males with conservative, often racist, views. The kind of people she likes.

Keller has victim blamed. She has turned around to the communities that are the targets of these kind of attacks and said that it's their fault that mass killings happen. She, like these attackers, clearly wants an America where the only people allowed to exist are conservative Republicans, white heterosexual Christians who follow Trump without question and worship the flag.

The Butler County Democratic Party Chairman Brian Hester responded to her post saying, 'She loves to fan the flames and play the role of victim here, not the nine people who were killed. She is fundamentally unfit for office. She is an embarrassment to her party, to conservatives, to Butler County and to the state legislator.'

He also went on to add, 'To blame these shootings on some of the very people who have been targeted is offensive to those victims as well as the nine people who were murdered in Dayton this morning and to their grieving friends and family members. I think we should focus on the ease this killer had to the tools at his disposal for his murderous rampage more than what video games he played as a kid. It is disgraceful that this is what passes for Republican rhetoric now.'

A Dayton Daily News reporter approached her for a comment, reading her statement back to her. She said that it sounded like part of her post, but she could not be sure if it was altered.

Candice Keller is running for the Ohio Senate in Butler County in 2020. She is currently under investigation for violating ethics rules by sponsoring a bill that would directly benefit an anti-abortion health centre she she owns in Ohio. She has also appeared on a white power advocate radio show in 2017, has compared Planned Parenthood to the Nazi party, and has called the survivors of the Parkland school shooting 'Dorito-eating video gamers'.


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