Waving Grizzly gif on Twitter.
Betsy DeVos’s hearing veered straight into the absurd, citing potential grizzlies:
However, nothing quite caught the flavor of how poorly her hearing went than her response to Sen. Chis Murphy (D-CT) who asked her, “Do you think guns have any place in or around schools?”
After saying the availability of guns should be “best left to locales and states to decide,” Devos replied to further questioning on guns on campus by adding, “I will refer back to Senator Enzi (R-WY) and the school he was talking about in Wyoming … I would imagine that there is probably a gun in the schools to protect from potential grizzlies.”
Ms. DeVos is not only singularly lacking any qualification to head up the Department of Education, she’s not exactly stellar in the thinking department. She did note she had a bleeding heart:
If the question is around gun violence and the results of that, please know that my heart bleeds and is broken for those families that have lost any individual due to gun violence.”
Buuuuuuut…potential grizzlies, man! I’m hearing Cheech & Chong in my head. The twittersphere erupted over the potential grizzly bears.
Mo Gaffney✔ @mogaffneySo DeVos won’t say guns don’t belong in schools. Except says yes when grizzlies are near. How many grizzly adjacent schools r there?
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Adam B. @AllThingsBooks“We need guns in schools because of grizzly bears.” You know what else stops bears? Doors.
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Sarcasticsapien @Sarcasticsapien
I’m confused. Betsy DeVos wants to bring God into schools but also guns because I guess God isn’t powerful enough to stop grizzly bears.
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Gary @mrgaryhuangI must REALLY live in a liberal bubble. I didn’t think grizzly bears were even remotely a problem in public schools.
More Tweets at Raw Story. Also covering this story, Think Progress.
The bear is probably just coming in to do a presentation about that right to bear arms and how harmful it is to actual bears, so they probably need a gun to deter the bear from spreading its liberal anti-gun leanings.
Or something.
Also from the Raw Story article, this tweet:
I believe the correct term here is drizzly bears.
rq:
If it’s a republican bear, it will do a presentation on the right to arm bears.
You never know when you might need to shoot a rogue cop!
Oh, wait, that’s not allowed. Which is weird, because cops kill way more americans than grizzly bears do.
And, of course, grizzly bears are not common in the States (except for Alaska):
Unless, of course, by “grizzly bear” she meant “Republican”.
(And learned a new word today, extirpation means “local extinction”.)
The bears are obviously there to protest their right to retain their bear arms, rq.
/pun
Siobhan
That’s what I said in option A: I think grizzlies also have an interest in people’s right to their arms (also) as a general rule. ;)
A potential grizzly is the same as a real grizzly, just like a fetus is the same as a human person.
/Republogic
Perhaps she means Mama Grizzlies and wants to protect schools against a rampaging horde of Sarah Palins?
Grizzly bears may not be a problem during Trump’s administration, his environmental policy could take care of them quite effectively.
I’m thinking of creating an on-line, self-help program to help everyone with $500 release there inner-potential grizzly.
I need a good title / catchphrase.
GrizzleSpell — Power of Unpresidented Alpha Bares
blf#12
GS-PUAB
the initialism needs work
GRIZ
“GRIZ iz Greatly!”