On Thursday afternoon, after the verdict was announced in the trial of the illegal immigrant who killed Kate Steinle, Shannon Watts of MomsDemand, the group that is demanding stringent gun control and asserts it stands for victims of gun violence, issued a tweet showing her indifference to the fury the Steinle family must have felt watching their daughter’s killer, who had been deported five times before he shot Steinle, declared innocent.

The best way to honor #KateSteinle and protect the hundreds of Americans who are shot and killed or injured every day in America is to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. Why are we more upset that she was shot by an immigrant than that she was shot and killed??? — Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) December 1, 2017

Watts, of course, misses the point. People are furious about the verdict not just because she was shot by an illegal immigrant, but the fact that he had been deported five times before he shot and killed Steinle, as seen below:

I don't know Shannon maybe because the illegal immigrant was deported 5 times and has 7 felonies. It's a serious problem the left chooses to ignore and now an innocent American is dead because of it. — Kabrona (@KILLERBEE_14) December 1, 2017

Don't even, lady! This killer should not have been here in the first place! — kiddycat456 (@kiddycat456) December 1, 2017

Watts doubled down with this tweet:

Why is that worse than being killed by a domestic abuser, or a criminal, or any dangerous American with a gun? — Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) December 1, 2017

Justin T. Haskins, executive editor at the Heartland Institute, was having none of that:

With all due respect, please just take the night off. The gun was STOLEN. It was STOLEN. Stolen by someone who should never have been here! What does this have to do with gun laws???? — Justin T. Haskins (@JustinTHaskins) December 1, 2017

Watts STILL wasn’t done:

Horrifically, stolen guns kill Americans every day: https://t.co/EtlOfh3vMc …. Those victims don't trend. Let's mourn Katie because she's yet another American victim of gun violence - not because she was shot by an undocumented immigrant. One is compassion, one is racism. https://t.co/AmI6M9VqxD — Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) December 1, 2017

Haskins fired back:

Shannon, the CRIMINAL who shot her should never have been here. I'm not a racist. I'm married to a freaking minority! The point is that this IS about illegal immigration. It isn't about gun control laws. Wake the hell up. — Justin T. Haskins (@JustinTHaskins) December 1, 2017

That prompted Watts to imply Haskins was not only a racist but a sexist as well:

Um... I'm sure your spouse loves the endearing term "freaking minority." How many undocumented immigrants kill Americans versus how many Americans kill Americans? I'll wait... https://t.co/LH1zeS44EP — Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) December 1, 2017

Lovely person.

H/T Twitchy