Human life lacking value in US: Activist

Press TV has interviewed Randy Short, a civil rights activist in Tennessee, to discuss the latest instance of gun violence in the US, where a gunman shot to death two reporters on the air.

Following is a rough transcription.

Press TV: I want to get your feelings after this incident took place and of course on the debate of gun control in the US.

Short: Well, I think the issue isn’t the guns in this particular instance and several others. We have an issue of immorality in the country, we have an issue of mental health in this country, we have the problem of large pharmacological forcing and selling drugs that make people psychotic and violent.

In this case, this man who used to be a homosexual prostitute, had problems. We live in a society that is telling people that it is perfectly OK however you live your life; sleep with a thousand people, a man is a woman, a woman is a man. When you had this kind of confusion and you have drugs and you have got racism and you have got guns, you have violence. Guns themselves are not the issue.

Are you understanding what I’m saying? When you have a president who travels to other countries, promoting amoral and immoral lifestyles instead of offering infrastructural trade, look at our country that has lost its mind. Will we be surprised at some of the hateful and vicious behavior of mentally ill people?

Not too long ago it used to be people who lived like Mr. Flanagan, a person who likes having sex with lots of people, were seen as having a mental problem. Given the drug-resistant venereal diseases, which the United States leads every industrialized country for venereal disease, a person has to be mentally ill, promiscuous and in this society. But of course, the DSM, the psychiatrist group, the psychologists, many of them are in the LGBTQ community, are fighting and have fought to commit things that are not necessarily healthy or good for normal people.

Put the guns in, put the racism in, put the immorality and the lack of value of life in a society where people are celebrating cutting off baby heads… Planned Parenthood; these are videos that judges released. We have got a country where death is seen as funny. People in Planned Parenthood… the US government gives half billion dollars to people who murder live babies.

Are we surprised that this person has no value for life? Are we surprised that this boy, he was a homosexual and the boys at [Colombine?] . We have had a lot of these people who are homosexuals but that is not reported because there has been an effort to make it seem as if being gay or lesbian is identical to being heterosexual.

If it were, then why are the outcomes so markedly different?

Press TV: As you spoke about it, sanctity of life is not being respected in the US, certainly for victims’ families. This must be a very tough time for any of the victims’ families of many of these shooting incidents. Do you think that this will add pressure on politicians to finally act?

Short: I don’t know because people who make the guns, that often fall in the wrong hands, bribe the government officials. We also need to understand that Roanoke, where the shootings took place, is one of the bastions for the guns and also one of the bastions against the LGBTQ crusade against marriage being defined as man and woman. So to me, this act of LGBTQ terrorism against the Christian church, really the issue of guns isn’t the point. The point is that that mental health of this country, the moral health of America, is in the toilet and that is shown not just domestically, but all these voyeurs and our negative relationships with our national community friends shows that this country is losing its mind.

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