Wil Wheaton blamed the National Rifle Association for a courthouse shooting that left two bailiffs dead on Monday.
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An inmate inside the Berrien County Courthouse in St. Joseph, Mich., stole an officer’s gun while he was being moved from a holding cell and shot four people — two of them fatal — but before the 43-year-old actor even knew the details, he blamed guns.
Welcome to America. It has been 0 days since our last mass shooting. #FucktheNRA pic.twitter.com/b0U7Zkkpau
— Wil Wheaton (@wilw) July 11, 2016
Wheaton later corrected his tweet after his followers criticized him for getting the details wrong. (RELATED: Michael Moore Responded To The Orlando Massacre With This Tweet About Guns)
@wilw shooter grabbed a deputy's gun. So this is a rare circumstance where a mass shooting wasn't enabled by the NRA.
— Wil Wheaton (@wilw) July 11, 2016
@DaveAmiott @JohnRossBowie @wilw Everyone in a courthouse is disarmed except law enforcement. The killer stole a bailiff's gun.
— #NeverTrumpProudRAT (@PaulWDrake) July 11, 2016
@wilw Your argument makes no sense. NRA does not sell guns, nor does it create the actions of those acting from the perspective of the left.
— NoOneHereYet (@noonehereyet) July 11, 2016
@noonehereyet @wilw it's like blaming AAA for drunk driving
— Steven (@ArlingtonSteve) July 11, 2016
@ArlingtonSteve @wilw or blaming Nabisco for someone shoplifting food. Pure idiocy.
— NoOneHereYet (@noonehereyet) July 11, 2016
@wilw @movinmeat Because the NRA is shooting people. That's some great logic there.
— GruntDoc (@gruntdoc) July 11, 2016
@gruntdoc @wilw @movinmeat Evidently the NRA is the only reason bailiffs have guns, or something.
— #NeverTrumpProudRAT (@PaulWDrake) July 11, 2016
@wilw Welcome to America. It has been 0 days since the NRA was unjustly blamed for a mass shooting.
— WeirdRalph® (@weirdralph) July 11, 2016
@wilw Lost me with this one man. You literally have no idea about this shooting or what laws would have prevented it. See ya.
— Anthony J. (@Jay_Conz) July 11, 2016