On the very same day that four people were killed in a mass shooting that took place at a mall in Indiana, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) thought it would be a great idea to post a video in which he brandished two assault rifles and seemed to threated President Joe Biden.
Here’s the video Jackson shared on Twitter:
I will NEVER give up my firearms. I will NEVER surrender my AR-15. If Democrats want to push an insane gun-grab, they can COME AND TAKE IT! pic.twitter.com/Yw6QVFqLg6
HuffPost notes that Jackson’s video seems to be in response to comments Biden has made since the horrific mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas:
Biden last month called for renewing the ban on sales of military-style assault weapons. But even in the face of repeated massacres by shooters who legally purchased the powerful rifles, Republicans have been steadfast in opposing reforms.
The video itself was mocked endlessly on social media, but what many who commented were most fascinated by is the way Jackson was holding the weapon in his right hand, which is pointed directly at his foot! One slip of his index finger and the former White House physician would be in need of a doctor for sure.
Rule #1 in firearm safety: Never point your firearm at anything you don't intend to shoot.
— jmalikauthor.bsky.social (@jmalikauthor) July 18, 2022
This is a man that once was a physician. A man that once believed in First Do No Harm and now posts videos suggesting harm is all thats left. Pathetic. #VoteBlue2022https://t.co/FRV2DNF1bc
— V.R. ☮-The Voice Of Rican- (@portarican_RT) July 18, 2022
Eager to prove her complete lack of comprehension and featly to the gun lobby, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is desperately trying to blame the July 4th mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois on antidepressant medications and video games instead of weapons of mass murder.
Robert Crimo III is the suspected shooter who allegedly killed 6 people during an Independence Day parade and wounded 31 others.
Greene, however, thinks guns had nothing to do with the crime, and took to Twitter so she could proudly declare her ignorance for the entire internet to see, writing:
“What drugs and/or psychiatric drugs was he on for his mind to be ruined in alternate reality games that caused him to commit a mass shooting? His parents know. The police know. School, arrest, hospital records? The public DESERVES to know.”
What drugs and/or psychiatric drugs was he on for his mind to be ruined in alternate reality games that caused him to commit a mass shooting?
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) July 5, 2022
She also posted this:
“When are we going to talk about drugs and SSRI’s? When are they going to release the shooters records? Why wasn’t his threats of mass shootings in his videos taken seriously by LE that knew about him? What did his parents know? Gun control won’t stop this epidemic of evil.”
When are we going to talk about drugs and SSRI’s?
When are they going to release the shooters records?
Why wasn’t his threats of mass shootings in his videos taken seriously by LE that knew about him?
What did his parents know?
Gun control won’t stop this epidemic of evil.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) July 5, 2022
Shannon Watts, the founder of firearms safety advocacy group Moms Demand Action, quickly reminded Greene of some cold hard facts she had neglected to mention regarding mass shootings and gun crime.
“Iceland is the world’s biggest consumer of [selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors]. They’ve had 5 gun homicides since 2020; in the US, there have been over 30,000 in that time. Japan is one of the largest video game markets in the world. They have only 10 shooting deaths a year; the US has 40,000. It’s the guns.”
Iceland is the world’s biggest consumer of SSRIs. They’ve had 5 gun homicides since 2020; in the US, there have been over 30,000 in that time.
Japan is one of the largest video game markets in the world. They have only 10 shooting deaths a year; the US has 40,000.
Video games and antidepressants, according to Greene. But how many people would have died if Crimo had been unable to obtain the weapon he used? Would tossing knives off the roof where he carried out the shooting have killed and wounded so many people? No. And yet it’s all about drugs and games.
Marjorie Taylor Greene and the vast majority of the Republican Party are whores for the NRA and gun manufacturers. It’s that simple and that easily diagnosed.
According to acquitted Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, he’s now a student at Texas A&M University.
Rittenhouse made that claim during an appearance on a broadcast of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” telling the host:
“I’m going to be going there. It’s going to be awesome. Beautiful campus, amazing people, amazing food.”
“It’s going to be an amazing experience where I can go and finally get an education. Over the past six months, I’ve been out having fun, living my life being a free man. Now it’s time to go and get an education, get good grades, and be successful in life.”
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 4, 2022
Just one problem: Texas A&M says Rittenhouse is lying and isn’t enrolled for either the summer or fall, NBC News reports:
“He has not been admitted as a student this summer or fall,” university spokesperson Kelly Brown told The Dallas Morning News. NBC News has reached out to the university for comment.
This isn’t the first time Rittenhouse has been involved in a controversy surrounding his higher education goals, Mediaite notes:
Rittenhouse previously took online classes as a non-degree student at Arizona State University and told reporters he wanted to study on campus after the trial.
Several ASU students protested following the verdict, and a Change.org petition called “Kyle Rittenhouse Should Not Be Allowed To Attend ASU” garnered more than 17,000 signatures (though some likely came from individuals unaffiliated with the university).
“Our records show that he is not currently enrolled,” ASU spokesperson Jay Thorne wrote in an email to the Arizona Republic late last November. “There was no action taken by the university.”
Sounds like Kyle has the same problem as the man who has gladly embraced him and even posed for a photo: Failed, one-term former President Donald Trump, who is also fond of lying more often than he breathes.
On August 5, 2020, Rittenhouse traveled from his home in Illinois to Kenosha (complete with an assault rifle) and fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26. He later claimed he had done so to protect property in the city from being destroyed.
According to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) students who are the victims of mass shootings have no one to blame but themselves because they weren’t armed so they could shoot back.
Greene’s comments came in a series of responses to David Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 mass shooting that took place at Stoneman Douglas High School.
Hogg asked:
“Please explain to me how my classmates’ rights including the second amendment were not infringed upon when they were killed in their classrooms. If you are killed because of our unregulated militia you lose all of your rights including 2A- death is the ultimate infringement.”
Please explain to me how my classmates rights including the second amendment were not infringed upon when they were killed in their classrooms. If you are killed because of our unregulated militia you lose all of your rights including 2A- death is the ultimate infringement.
That led Greene to go on an extended Twitter rant that raised more questions than it answered and also included plenty of false equivalencies and outright lies, with the Georgia Republican seeming to suggest that all students should be armed.
“When a student brought guns to my school to kill other students he was mad at, unlike you, my reaction was why is he the only one with guns and why is there no one with guns to defend us? Your reaction was joining a women’s anti-gun lobby funded by billionaire Bloomberg.”
“Tragically because of senseless gun free zone laws, many people have been killed by bad guys with guns who are willingly breaking many laws to commit murder and they don’t care about gun free zones, while law abiding innocent people are unable to defend themselves with guns,” Greene said. “Just be clear, if a bad guy is trying to kill me or my family, I will gladly use my 2A rights to defend myself and others with whatever gun I choose and with as many and as much ammunition I choose to fire.”
Apparently, Congresswoman Greene is advocating for every American to be armed with a weapon, but has zero evidence that such a policy would actually reduce gun violence. As is so common with those on the right, they have no practical solutions, just lots of empty rhetoric.
It’s impossible to explain the depravity and evil that led to that horrific tragedy.
The killer himself is the only one who owes an explanation, not anyone who supports the 2A.
The gun doesn’t owe an explanation nor the gun manufacturer.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 3, 2022
The tool used to commit murder is not responsible, the person who commits the murder is.@davidhogg111 you didn’t join a political movement to take away all cars after Darell Brooks murdered innocent people in a Christmas parade by running them over with his car.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 3, 2022
And @davidhogg111 you didn’t join a political movement to take away all knives after a man went on a murderous stabbing spree killing people with a knife.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 3, 2022
When a student brought guns to my school to kill other students he was mad at, unlike you, my reaction was why is he the only one with guns and why is there no one with guns to defend us?
Your reaction was joining a women’s anti-gun lobby funded by billionaire Bloomberg.
4/7
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 3, 2022
The near experience of a school shooting at my school when I was in 11th grade solidified my strong support for our 2A and led to my learning that then Senator Joe Biden’s legislation was the cause of us students being defenseless sitting ducks bc of gun free zones.
5/7
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 3, 2022
Tragically because of senseless gun free zone laws, many people have been killed by bad guys with guns who are willingly breaking many laws to commit murder and they don’t care about gun free zones, while law abiding innocent people are unable to defend themselves with guns.
6/7
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 3, 2022
Just be clear, if a bad guy is trying to kill me or my family, I will gladly use my 2A rights to defend myself and others with whatever gun I choose and with as many and as much ammunition I choose to fire.
The Second Amendment shall not be infringed.
7/7
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 3, 2022
What Greene neglected to mention is that all rights have limits. The First Amendment doesn’t allow you to shout “fire!” in a crowded theatre. And you aren’t allowed to own a fully automatic machine gun the way you could in the 20s and 30s.
Of course, Ms. Greene doesn’t have time for actually trying to understand the Bill of Rights. She’s too busy trying to figure out how she can immediately arm every first grader in the United States.
Not content to have allegedly been a part of the January 6 Capitol insurrection, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is now suggesting that it may be time to use guns on her Democratic opponents.
Greene was speaking to disgraced former Trump administration aide Sebastian Gorka as part of his pathetic excuse of a radio show which appears on the right-wing Salem Network when she brought up the subject of Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who Greene claims is wrong on the issues of gun rights and the COVID vaccine:
“Ultimately the truth is it’s our Second Amendment rights, our right to bear arms, that protects Americans and give us the ability to defend ourselves from a tyrannical government. And I hate to use this language but Democrats, they’re exactly — they’re doing exactly what our Founders talked about when they gave us the precious rights that we have.”
She hates to use this language? No she doesn’t! She’s happy to use threats and fear to rile up her extremist base of supporters who are still convinced that Donald Trump won the 2020 election and is second only to Jesus in their bigoted brains.
Of course, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Greene would be spouting such dangerous rhetoric. After all, she’s been doing it since she first announced her candidacy.
According to CNN, Greene has a history of calling for violence against anyone who disagrees with her:
In one post, from January 2019, Greene liked a comment that said “a bullet to the head would be quicker” to remove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In other posts, Greene liked comments about executing FBI agents who, in her eyes, were part of the “deep state” working against Trump.
Oh, and then there was this, also aimed at Pelosi:
“She’s a traitor to our country, she’s guilty of treason,” Greene says in the video, which she posted on Facebook at the time. “She took an oath to protect American citizens and uphold our laws. And she gives aid and comfort to our enemies who illegally invade our land. That’s what treason is. And by our law representatives and senators can be kicked out and no longer serve in our government. And it’s, uh, it’s a crime punishable by death is what treason is. Nancy Pelosi is guilty of treason.”
Maybe the voters in Greene’s district will do us all a favor and un-elect her in November. In the meantime, she needs to be under investigation by the Justice Department for a number of crimes, including issuing terroristic threats and giving aid and comfort to traitors who tried to overthrow the U.S. government.
