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TexasTowelie

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Tue Aug 6, 2019, 06:38 AM Aug 2019

Gun shop's billboard mocking liberal congresswomen taken down after two mass shootings

A North Carolina gun shop’s controversial billboard criticizing four liberal congresswomen was removed Monday, days after two deadly mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.

Cherokee Guns in Murphy posted a statement on its website Monday acknowledging the sign had come down, but said the billboard had already made its anti-socialist point. Murphy is about 240 miles west of Charlotte, in Cherokee County.

“The Socialist 4 Horsemen message went nationwide very quickly... and the positive support received was, and is really amazing,” the store’s website says.

“Of course, you have those in their parents’ basements trying to put a spin on the real message. To those... maybe I will do another ‘Idiots’ billboard for you,” said the post.

Read more: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article233555032.html
(Raleigh News & Observer)

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Gun shop's billboard mocking liberal congresswomen taken down after two mass shootings (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2019 OP
They'll be back with more billboards like this. Hoyt Aug 2019 #1
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