Disgraced Rep. George Santos was amongst a number of Republican lawmakers noticed sporting an assault rifle lapel pin on the Home flooring this week, a transfer that outraged a number of Democrats amid a latest spate of mass shootings.
“George Santos was carrying an assault weapon lapel pin actually days after a string of mass shootings. Name it tone-deaf or silly, however one issues for sure: he’s not match to serve in Congress,” Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) wrote in a scathing tweet on Tuesday.
Santos’ fellow freshman colleague Rep. Ana Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) additionally repped her assist for the Second Modification by carrying one of many pins, which seemed to be modeled after an AR-15 rifle.
Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I), who’s the sponsor of laws that might outlaw assault rifles, retweeted a photograph on Wednesday of Luna and Santos with their pins and expressed his outrage over their politically-charged style equipment.
“As gun violence survivors had been on the Capitol to mark Gun Violence Survivors Week and assist me reintroduce the #AssaultWeaponsBan, that is what my colleagues had been doing. What’s flawed with you?” Cicilline tweeted.
The lawmaker answerable for distributing the pins is Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), a gun retailer proprietor who really sells the exact same pins at his store.
On Thursday, Clyde mentioned that he hoped to distribute extra pins to fellow members to “remind folks of the Second Modification of the Structure and the way essential it’s in preserving our liberties.”
“I hear that this little pin I’ve been giving out on the Home Ground has been triggering a few of my Democrat colleagues,” Clyde mentioned in a tweet Thursday.
“If I missed you on the Home flooring, please cease by my workplace in Cannon, I’ve a lot extra to offer out,” he added.
