CBS Fires Legal Exec Who Said She Had No Sympathy for Victims of Las Vegas Shooting Because ‘Country Music Fans are Often Republican Gun Toters’

A top legal executive at CBS found herself in hot water Monday after saying she is "not even sympathetic" to those affected by the mass shooting in Las Vegas.

Written by Lauren Jo Black
CBS Fires Legal Exec Who Said She Had No Sympathy for Victims of Las Vegas Shooting Because ‘Country Music Fans are Often Republican Gun Toters’
LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 01: People take cover at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after apparent gun fire was heard on October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. There are reports of an active shooter around the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)

A top legal executive at CBS found herself in hot water Monday (Oct. 2) after saying she is “not even sympathetic” to those affected by the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, which killed 58 people and injured more than 500.

In a Facebook post that has since been deleted, but was obtained by DailyCaller.com, Hayley Geftman-Gold writes, “If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs will ever do the right thing. I’m actually not even sympathetic bc country music fans often are Republican gun toters.”

Geftman-Gold was presumably referring to the tragic 2014 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, in which 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and six staff members before turning the gun on himself.

CBS quickly responded to her social post and fired Geftman-Gold on the spot.

“This individual, who was with us for approximately one year, violated the standards of our company and is no longer an employee of CBS. Her views as expressed on social media are deeply unacceptable to all of us at CBS. Our hearts go out to the victims in Las Vegas and their families,” a CBS spokeswoman told Fox News.

The topic of gun control has been brought up several times on Monday as news of the massacre in Las Vegas spread. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders responded to reporters’ questions about gun control on Monday, saying “there will certainly be a time for that policy discussion to take place, but that’s not the place that we’re in at this moment.”