7 Reactions to the Las Vegas Shooting Massacre

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Twitter

Hayley Geftman-Gold

Las Vegas Metro Police and medical workers stage in the intersection of Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard South.
Las Vegas Metro Police and medical workers stage in the intersection of Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard South. | (Photo: REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus)

Former CBS executive and lawyer Hayley Geftman-Gold garnered a firestorm of controversy when she said in a Facebook post that she could not feel sympathy for the victims.

Geftman-Gold, who served as vice president and senior counsel of strategic transactions at CBS, said on Facebook: "I'm actually not even sympathetic [because] country music fans often are Republican gun toters.

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"If they wouldn't do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs will ever do the right thing," she added.

In response to the outrage, CBS announced that Geftman-Gold was fired, labeling her views "unacceptable to all of us at CBS."

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