Republican Thomas Massie condemned for Christmas guns photo

[Uncle Joe]

A US congressman has posted a Christmas picture of himself and what appears to be his family, smiling and posing with an assortment of guns, just days after four teenagers were killed in a shooting at a high school in Michigan.

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Jonathan Van Norman, a campaign manager for Massie, did not immediately reply to a request for comment via Twitter.

The Democratic US Representative John Yarmuth condemned his fellow Kentuckian’s post. “I’m old enough to remember Republicans screaming that it was insensitive to try to protect people from gun violence after a tragedy,” Yarmuth tweeted, apparently referring to calls for gun control laws.

“I promise not everyone in Kentucky is an insensitive asshole,” he added. The shooting in Oxford, Michigan, was the latest in a string of such incidents that have prompted fierce debates over school safety, gun control and gun rights.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/05/republican-thomas-massie-condemned-for-christmas-guns-photo-congressman-michigan-school-shooting

One thing about Republicans; they're most adept at projection and from a metaphorical standpoint, callous actions such as those of Congressman Massie are indeed a "war on Christmas."

[old as dirt]

1. The War on Christmas. (nt)

[Freddie]

2. We're decorating the house and putting up the outside lights now

There’s a house not far from here that has all the lights up, snowmen in the front yard, a Nativity scene…and a spotlight on their “F*** Biden” flag. I kid you not. Let’s celebrate the birth of our Savior! Get all the kids in the neighborhood to admire your pretty lights and snowmen and the baby Jesus in the manger, and read your flag aloud.

[Sneederbunk]

3. Many gun owners could find this very very stupid.

Where are all the knife collecting families out there?

[MarineCombatEngineer]

4. And the most galling aspect of this is, IMHO,

that as taxpayers, we, the people, probably paid for the fucking things by paying his fucking salary.

[wnylib]

5. 'Tis the season of

guns on earth, bad will to all.