Huckabee: We Didn’t Have Shootings When We Had Bibles In Schools (VIDEO)

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in National Harbor, Md., Friday, March 7, 2014. Friday marks the second day of the annual Conservative Politi... Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in National Harbor, Md., Friday, March 7, 2014. Friday marks the second day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which brings together prospective presidential candidates, conservative opinion leaders and tea party activists from coast to coast. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) MORE LESS
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) returned to one of his favorite themes at a televangelist’s conference earlier this month — the power of public school prayer to eradicate school shootings.

In video surfaced by Right Wing Watch on Monday, Huckabee said that in his day, people prayed in public schools left and right, the ex-governor told an audience at TV preacher Morris Cerullo’s annual gathering.

“The Gideons would give us Bibles,” he said, “and nobody got arrested, nobody got sued — and by the way, nobody got hurt, either.”

“Because we were bringing Bibles to school, people weren’t bringing guns to school,” he said. “Except for the deer hunters who left ’em in their trucks.”

The comments echoed Huckabee’s now infamous line after the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, in which he blamed the shooting in Newtown on government restricting prayer in schools.

“We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools,” Huckabee said on Fox News at the time. “Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?”

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  1. You didn’t have black people either, pious fraud. No wonder you were tearing up.

    Besides, you did have Charles Witman. But let me guess, he was an atheist, right?

  2. And we wore onions on our belts, which was the fashion at the time.

  3. Wow. Rural 19th and early 20th century schools were scary places. The farm boys were often feral and were bullies not only to other students but also to teachers. Lots of really horrifying tales along those lines. I wrote one that I know but deleted it, out of consideration for polite sensibilities.

  4. What about the shootings at Bible schools?

    This one in Elizabeth City, NC?

    Or this one in Oakland?

    Huck tells Jesus to butt out in 3,2,1.

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