Mark Robinson.Photo:Dylan Hollingsworth/Bloomberg via Getty
Dylan Hollingsworth/Bloomberg via Getty
In anotherpostpublished just six days after the shooting — in which a gunmankilled 17 people, including students and teachers — Robinson shared a photo of a group of the survivors along with the caption: “The look you get when you let the devil give you a ride on a river of blood to ’15 minutes of Fameville.’"
Robinson also mocked young gun control activists on Twitter, sharing onephotoof a protestor at the“March for Our Lives” rallywith the caption: “They live. They breathe. They’ll procreate. #funnybutscary.”
CNN also reported on a 2018podcastin which Robinson spoke about protestors, saying in reference to the 1970 shooting of students at Kent State protesting the Vietnam War, “We need some politicians in office in some of these cities that’s gonna let people know from the get-go, you go in the street and block traffic, if you block buildings, if you destroy property, you are going to be dealt with swiftly and harshly. We are not going to tolerate it.”
The Republican is currently lieutenant governor, serving under Democrat Roy Cooper in what is largely a ceremonial role. But he now has his eyes set on higher office,announcinghis candidacy for governor in April.
Robinson has courted controversy in recent years, such as when he delivered sermons in 2021 and in 2023 littered with anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.
“There’s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, any of that filth,” Robinson said in a speech to the congregation of Asbury Baptist Church in June 2021.
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In a 2023sermon, Robinson spoke similarly: “Makes me sick every time I see it, when I pass a church that flies that rainbow flag, which is a direct spit in the face to God Almighty.”
source: people.com
