On his "Pass The Salt Live" webcast this morning, Religious Right activist Dave Daubenmire said last night's mass shooting in Las Vegas, in which 50 people were killed and hundreds more were wounded, was just the latest example of "the wrath of God" being unleashed on America for being such a wicked nation.
"In the world of America, where guys climb up on towers in Las Vegas and pick off people at a concert," he said, "where people indiscriminately kill one another, the wrath of God [is] being revealed. See, the wrath of God being revealed means that the things that the Lord used to prevent, He doesn't prevent so much any more. He doesn't prevent them. Maybe He doesn't cause them, He doesn't cause a hurricane to come into Houston, but He doesn't prevent it. That's for sure."
"Maybe He doesn't cause that guy to shoot people, but He doesn't prevent it," Daubenmire continued. "We used to have a sense of spiritual covering over us but it's rapidly disappearing because, even though I stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, the American government is pretty wicked."