Thread by @DempseyTwo

There’s a Senate Judiciary hearing today to discuss gun violence. One would think it’s just good timing that they happened to have a hearing scheduled about gun violence as we have had 2 mass shootings in the last week. It’s not a coincidence. These shootings occur too often.👇🏻

And they are paid for. These shootings have become a business. Each time one occurs, the NRA tries to cash in. It used to be they would offer some hollow thoughts and prayers to go along with their hollow points, but now they fund raise. And now, so do elected officials.

You may remember Lauren Boebert from such gun discussions as her first trip to the well of the House floor where she ‘joked’ she wasn’t going to challenge anyone to a duel and then proceeded to incite insurrection.

https://twitter.com/DempseyTwo/status/1363142068114251779

Or you might recall Boebert from when she stood against background checks for gun purchases in this speech where she lied about the death of a patron of her restaurant. By the way, the name of the restaurant is ‘Shooters.’

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1369744739088691204

Or from when she asked Beto O’Rourke a question while he was campaigning. She told him ‘Hell No’ you won’t take my guns. She reminded the crowd that Beto had a ‘criminal’ record.

Which is kind of a weird flex considering...

In a way, this question to Beto launched Boebert into politics. Also while she had the mic at that Beto rally, she let the crowd know she didn’t have her AR15 with her but that she did have her glock.

Sorry, that’s 👆🏻Russian [REDACTED] Maria Butina showing the crowd at a pro gun rally that due to her lifetime membership in the NRA, she can have a concealed carry permit. My apologies for the confusion. For more on this, read here👇🏻

https://twitter.com/dempseytwo/status/1300534903025664005

But now that Boebert is an elected official she has great power and with great power comes great responsibility. 🤣🤣 just kidding, she needs money and she needs to look like she cares. So she tweeted this. Remember she represents Colorado and is from a place called Rifle.

Remember earlier when I said these shootings are a means to raise funds?

She sent this looking to raise funds...

Boebert is one of three candidates to receive campaign contributions from a PAC called American Victory PAC. Where did this money come from? Well it looks like $5k came from National Shooting Sports Foundation. Sounds kind of gun-y.

Well...the National Shooting Sports Foundation is headquartered in...and you’re not going to believe it...seriously....Newtown CT! And god damnit, I’m not even going to post a link to the Sandy Hook story because it is still too painful and I’m still too pissed from last night.

We have politicians in office whose sole purpose is to protect guns. They gaslight and tell us the guns protect us. So which is it? We have put millions of funding into strengthening the police. We outfit them to invade small nations. We need to invest in prevention.

We will never be rid of this scourge as long as there are politicians paid to protect the guns. Who will protect us from them?
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