Ex-NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch says ‘Maybe try holding the murderers responsible’

Neither a weekend of extreme gun violence nor a personal social media backlash was going to inform former NRA spokeswoman and radio host Dana Loesch’s hard-line position on firearms.

The Twittersphere vented its anger at the right-wing lightning rod following a killing spree in El Paso, Texas, that took 20 lives and a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, a few hours later in which nine people were killed. She stuck to her guns, claiming the shooters were to blame for the body counts.

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“How do you type tweets with so much blood on your hands?” U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights director Yousef Munayyer tweeted at Loesch.

“My hands are clean. Maybe try holding the murderers responsible,” Loesch replied. “God bless.”

Dozens of tweets followed, mostly echoing Loesch’s uncompromising defense of gun proprietorship. “God bless” punctuated her reply to many of them.

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The 40-year-old firebrand shared one news clip she approved of and it featured El Paso’s district attorney stating Saturday’s bloodbath will produce at least one more death — the gunman, who is in police custody.

“Good,” she captioned that clip. “We need stronger penalties that make these monsters fear preying on the innocent.”

It wasn’t just concerned citizens looking to hold Loesch responsible for her lifetime of weapon adoration Sunday. Famed boxing promoter Lou DiBella slugged away at her for being a “face and a voice of a lobby that values guns and money over human life” and added, “You’re a creep.”

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Loesch counter-punched by pointing out she hasn’t been a paid advocate for the NRA since NRATV was canceled in June.

NBC host Joe Scarborough, a former Republican politician, took issue with Loesch’s claim that her politics don’t incite violence, pointing to an NRATV ad that he said warned him, “Your time is running out.”

You incite violence against us by looking to camera saying “your time is running out” and you want to engage in a semantics debate over background checks? https://t.co/YMtyL5K3s2

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) August 4, 2019

Loesch accused Scarborough of mischaracterizing that ad, which she said was “a countdown to a special on media bias.”

A Twitter user named Emily N. Roach, a Dayton resident, asked for cooler heads to prevail.

PLEASE stop using my community’s tragedy to push your political agenda, conspiracy theories, etc. Blood was shed only nine hours ago. Let us mourn. #DaytonStrong

— Emily N. Roach (@emilynroach) August 4, 2019

“PLEASE stop using my community’s tragedy to push your political agenda, conspiracy theories, etc.,” Roach wrote. “Blood was shed only nine hours ago. Let us mourn.”

Loesch, whose Twitter feed vows “Never bend a knee to the rage mob,” went on a Twitter rant in January when a Daily News article noted she’s been “dismissive” of students in Parkland, Fla., who became gun-control advocates after a 2018 shooting left 17 of their classmates dead.

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Examples making that point included an NRA-TV clip where she said “Kids today, right?” while arguing their wanting to be safe in school doesn’t take into consideration that she could be raped in a parking lot if she didn’t have a gun. She also accused shooting survivor David Hogg of having “a sassy mouth on him” and that it was being given a national platform.

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