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GOP lawmaker draws backlash for Christmas photo showing family holding guns
ABC News ^
| Dec 7
| By Michelle Stoddart
Posted on 12/07/2021 9:56:32 AM PST by RandFan
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie is facing backlash for a Christmas card photo he posted to social media showing him and every member of his family holding large guns in front of the holiday tree.
"Merry Christmas!," Massie, R-Ky., said in the tweet with the photo he posted Friday. "ps. Santa, please bring ammo."
The photo was posted just four days after a high school shooting in Oxford Township, Michigan, left four students dead and at least eight wounded. Prosecutors say the parents of the accused shooter, Ethan Crumbley, purchased the gun used in the shooting just days before it happened.
Politicians and activists responded to the photo, some criticizing and others defending the pro-gun rights Kentucky congressman.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., a fellow Republican responded in a tweet criticizing the photo.
"I’m pro second amendment, but this isn’t supporting right to keep and bear arms, this is a gun fetish," Kinzinger said.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; adamkinzinger; adumbzinger; banglist; brandonnewspuppet; christmas; gaybcnews; michellestoddart; thomasmassie
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Media freaking out
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posted on
12/07/2021 9:56:32 AM PST
by
RandFan
To: RandFan
Bet he got more than a few atta boys.
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posted on
12/07/2021 9:58:22 AM PST
by
ryderann
To: RandFan
Ohhhh my.... they were “big guns”.... That’s scaaaaary!!!
To: RandFan
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.
STFU!................................
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posted on
12/07/2021 9:58:43 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: RandFan
what is the daughter on the couch holding?
Uzi?
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posted on
12/07/2021 9:59:25 AM PST
by
a real Sheila
(Let's go Brandon!!!)
To: RandFan
It’s NOT a “holiday” Tree, ABC!
It’s a CHRISTMAS tree!
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posted on
12/07/2021 9:59:42 AM PST
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(Donald J. Trump is my president, not the Commander-in-Thief, brain-dead Joseph Stolen)
To: RandFan
The two issues are 100% unrelated
therefore, libtard media freakout to create a non-existant issue
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posted on
12/07/2021 10:00:25 AM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: RandFan
Why does this report say they were holding guns in front of the holiday tree? Are they so politically correct they are afraid to call it a Christmas tree?
To: RandFan
Ho Ho Ho.
Leftists should just wear diapers and shut the hell up.
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posted on
12/07/2021 10:02:27 AM PST
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
To: RandFan
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posted on
12/07/2021 10:02:40 AM PST
by
OttawaFreeper
("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
To: Red Badger
The only thing Kinzinger would be photographed with is a pussy hat.
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posted on
12/07/2021 10:02:53 AM PST
by
bigbob
To: OttawaFreeper
Don't shoot your eye out kid
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posted on
12/07/2021 10:03:13 AM PST
by
z3n
(“If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.” -Charlemagne)
To: RandFan
A_hole ABC just has to call the Christmas tree a holiday tree...
Slimy commie bastards...
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posted on
12/07/2021 10:03:49 AM PST
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
To: RandFan
His may qualify as a “big gun”. The rest, not so much to not at all
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posted on
12/07/2021 10:04:07 AM PST
by
PAR35
To: RandFan
OK, OK, make them redo the picture.
With the time-honored one finger salute.
Eff liberals. All the time. Every time. Without fail.
To: RandFan
Exercising both 1st and 2nd Amendment rights constitutes unacceptable behavior to the tyrannical America-hating left. Big surprise.
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posted on
12/07/2021 10:04:21 AM PST
by
Hazwaste
(Socialists are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
Massie is fantastic, I don’t care what Trump says.
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posted on
12/07/2021 10:04:41 AM PST
by
proust
(All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
To: RandFan
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posted on
12/07/2021 10:05:03 AM PST
by
OttawaFreeper
("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
To: RandFan
"I’m pro second amendment, but this isn’t supporting right to keep and bear arms, this is a gun fetish," Kinzinger said.Each family member had one gun. That's not a fetish. It's family a tradition.
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posted on
12/07/2021 10:05:06 AM PST
by
Pollard
(PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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