“Can somebody explain to me how they worked out that the Michigan school shooting is (Massie’s) fault because he shared a picture of him and his family holding legal fire arms?” Owens asked in the tweet. Many replies to Massie's tweet this weekend contained photos of the Oxford High School victims, where a 15-year-old gunman killed four and injured others with a handgun given to him by his parents.Īs the backlash piled on, Massie retweeted a handful of commentators defending him, including conservative Candace Owens. He's voted against expanded background checks several times, and notably voted against the 2018 Stop School Violence Act. Massie has long been a staunch advocate for gun ownership. In a statement on Saturday, Tom Elfers, the chairman of the Kenton County Democrats, called Massie's tweet “morally reprehensible," adding that it "makes a mockery of victims of gun violence across this country and here in the commonwealth.”
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I’m pro second amendment, but this isn’t supporting right to keep and bear arms, this is a gun fetish. “I’m pro second amendment, but this isn’t supporting right to keep and bear arms, this is a gun fetish,” he tweeted Saturday. Rep Adam Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois, also chimed in to denounce the tweet. Now they openly rub the murder of children in our faces like they scored a touchdown. I’m old enough to remember Republicans screaming that it was insensitive to try to protect people from gun violence after a tragedy. “Now they openly rub the murder of children in our faces like they scored a touchdown. “I’m old enough to remember Republicans screaming that it was insensitive to try to protect people from gun violence after a tragedy,” Yarmuth added. In a tweet, he said, "I promise not everyone in Kentucky is an insensitive a-e."
One of the first to fire back was fellow Kentucky Congressman John Yarmuth, the Commonwealth's lone Democrat in Congress.
It drew ire and backlash from both political parties, with some deriding it as "gun fetishism" and others calling it disrespectful to vicitims of the recent school shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan where four teenagers were killed. The Northern Kentucky Republican's provocative tweet garnered over 70,000 likes and almost 80,000 replies as of Sunday afternoon in what some would call a "ratio." "Merry Christmas!" Massie wrote in the Saturday tweet. Thomas Massie was trending on Twitter this weekend after posting a Christmas photo of himself and his family members, each holding firearms around a Christmas tree. , on Facebook and Twitter as well as on Instagram.KENTUCKY - Rep. Welcome to gun nation.ĭiscover more new, inspiring photography every day from cultures around the world at Compare that to a population of over 310 million-and there is likely a gun for every man, woman and child in America. There are an estimatedģ10 million guns in circulation today (and counting). In the United States, 30,000 people die every year by gunfire. Ten years on and the situation remains the same, if not worse. The result was his seminal project "Gun Nation." Ten years ago, Zed Nelson completed a three-year investigation into the gun culture of America. In fact, Alaska recently passed a law thatīanned the state from using resources to enforce federal gun laws, thereby enshrining the state's loose standards as the state's only standards.
They can carry a gun openly, or concealed, also without a license. A nation composed of 50 states, each with their own ideas of "gun control." In Alaska, anyone over the age of 18 can purchase a gun. A portrait of a nation and its love affair with guns.
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