Now that she has established her reputation as one of the most worthless and unnecessary members of Congress, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is trying to attach her own ignorance to every elected official in the country, but her efforts only managed to prove that she has neither a brain or a shred of self-awareness.
Boebert thought she’d wade right into the ongoing national debate about mass shootings and gun control by suggesting that anyone who doesn’t know what the “AR” in an AR-15 assault rifle stands for:
If you’re wondering, AR stands for “ArmaLite,” a weapon developed in the 1950s for the military, not for the average Joe to carry around and turn on innocent children and their teachers, slaughtering 21 of them the way a perpetrator did at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Of course, it doesn’t actually matter what you call a weapon such as the AR-15. You could dub it an artificial phallus for those who feel inadequate and it wouldn’t change the killing power of the gun, and it most certainly wouldn’t make the people killed buy AR-15s any less dead or their families any less devastated to hear that their loved ones are gone forever. To paraphrase Shakespeare, An AR-15 by any other name would be just as deadly.
As for Boebert’s insinuation that not knowing what the AR initials mean qualifies you for being dismissed from your elected office, that’s incredibly rich and ironic coming from a woman who has said the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol was a legitimate protest and not the least bit illegal.
Boebert was quickly shredded on Twitter.
