Las Vegas Shooting: CBS Exec Fired For 'Republican Gun Toters' Facebook Comment

NEW YORK, NY — A top corporate attorney for the CBS network was fired Monday over comments she made on social media that expressed a lack of sympathy for some of the victims of Sunday’s deadly mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas because they may have been “Republican gun toters.” At least 59 people were killed and 515 were wounded in the attack, called the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.

CBS said it has fired Hayley Geftman-Gold for now-deleted comments she made on a Facebook post. “If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs will ever do the right thing,” she wrote, presumably referring to the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting where 20 children were killed, sparking a fierce gun-control debate. “I’m actually not even sympathetic (because) country music fans often are Republican gun toters.”

Geftman-Gold, whose Facebook account identifies her as vice president and senior counsel of strategic transactions, had been with the network for about a year, CBS said in a statement to Fox News. (Sign up for real-time news alerts and free morning newsletters from New York City Patch.)

“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,” according to the statement.

The comments were captured in a screenshot by The Daily Caller News Foundation, a conservative nonprofit media organization.

People run from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after apparent gun fire was hear on October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. A gunman has opened fire on a music festival in Las Vegas, leaving at least 20 people dead and more than 100 injured. Police have confirmed that one suspect has been shot. The investigation is ongoing. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images News/Getty Images)