Chris Christie: ‘Laws Can’t Change’ What Happened In Charleston (VIDEO)

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Friday expressed his sorrow for victims of the Wednesday shooting at a Charleston church, but said that gun control laws could not have prevented the attack.

“This type of conduct is something that only our display of our own love and good faith that’s in our heart can change. Laws can’t change this,” he said at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference in Washington D.C. “Only the goodwill and the love of the American people can let those folks know that that act was unacceptable, disgraceful, that we need to do more to show that we love each other.”

Authorities on Thursday arrested 21-year-old Dylann Roof, the suspect in the Wednesday shooting at a historic black church in Charleston that left nine people dead.

During his Friday speech, Christie asked the audience to pray for the families of the victims in the attack.

“The idea that anyone, that any human being would walk into a church and sit there for an hour and pray with people that he intended to murder, is depraved, it’s unthinkable,” he said. “We can’t put our minds around conduct like that, can we?”

Watch Christie’s remarks below via C-SPAN:

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  1. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Friday expressed his sorrow for
    victims of the Wednesday shooting at a Charleston church, but said that
    gun control laws could not have prevented the attack.

    DING, DING, DING, DING!!! We have a winner! Laws restricting gun access? Well that wouldn’t have helped at all! I mean, everyone should have the GOD GIVEN RIGHT to be provided with the tools to be a mass murderer! To say otherwise would be un-American!

  2. God, his whole statement is just mind boggling.

  3. Avatar for ajm ajm says:

    Hey, Gov! Here’s how you get your mind around this type of mass murder. It’s simply Republican racist rantings coming home to roost!

  4. So we can’t fix some things because we can’t fix everything. What leadership. As Jon Stewart correctly and in somber fashion noted last night:

    “…once again that we have to peer into the abyss of the depraved violence that we do to each other and the nexus of a just gaping racial wound that will not heal yet we pretend doesn’t exist. I’m confident though that by acknowledging it, by staring into that and seeing it for what it is, we still won’t do jack shit. Yeah. That’s us.”

  5. So, i guess we can stop trying to ban abortions now?

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