Rick…Media101: to avoid “misspeak”…think about what you’re going to say, write down your messages. Always Be Compassionate.

Rick Santorum: ‘I did misspeak’ in telling kids to learn CPR instead of marching for gun control

Rick Santorum is trying to walk back comments he made suggesting teenagers protesting gun violence would be better served by taking CPR classes instead of demanding stricter gun laws.

Santorum, a former Republican senator from Pennsylvania, had made his original comments Sunday while on CNN’s “State of the Union.” On a panel there, he dismissed the March for Our Lives rallies — which had drawn hundreds of thousands of protesters across the country the day before — as a “political movement” that was supported by “Hollywood elites” and “liberal billionaires.”

Full story on Washington Post

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