A United States Congressman asks Santa Claus for ammunition and congratulates the entire armed family on Christmas

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Ethan Crumbley, just 15 years old, entered the Oakland Oxford High School, in the state of Michigan, and started shooting. He killed four people and injured seven others. He entered a school bathroom with a backpack and came out without the bag but with a gun in his hand. He turned himself in when police arrived and now faces, among others, four counts of first-degree murder. Four days later, on Saturday, the Republican congressman Thomas Massie He shared his Christmas greeting on social networks. They appear smiling and next to the Christmas tree, all very predictable. What is unsettling, even more so with the recent Michigan tragedy, is that everyone shows up with a gun in their hands, assault rifles, to be exact. And to top it off, the ‘Christmas’ includes a message from Santa Claus: “Please bring ammo“.

Massie, member of the United States House of Representatives by the state of Kentucky since 2012, posted the photo the same day Crumbley’s parents were arrested for their responsibility in the massacre, because they bought the pistol from their son four days before and ignored the school warnings about the kid’s erratic behavior. It was, by the way, the worst school shooting since May 2018, when a 17-year-old, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, killed 10 people.

Massie’s Christmas postcard shows his wife Rhonda Howard (“together since high school,” boasts the congressman himself) and his four children. In an assumption, the young man in the plaid shirt on the right, the one who smiles the least, seems to be the partner of one of the two daughters of the marriage. The image, as expected, and as perhaps the Republican politician himself wished, has generated a wave of outrage. The Democratic congressman also from Kentucky John Yarmuth He responded like this via Twitter: “I am old enough to remember the Republicans yelling that it was insensitive to try to protect people from gun violence after a tragedy. Now they openly rub the murder of children in our faces. as if they had scored a ‘touchdown’. Shameful“.

Although the reaction that has most moved is surely that of Fred Guttenberg, Jaime’s father, a 15-year-old girl who died on February 14, 2018. He was one of the 17 victims of the shooting perpetrated by Nikolas Cruz in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland (Florida). The murderer was a former student of the center. “Since we are sharing Family photos, here are mine. One is the last photo I took of Jaime, the other is the place where she is buried. The shooter and his family also used to take photos like his, “Guttenberg wrote in response to the Christmas greeting from Massie, who is a fervent collector of weapons and has always opposed any attempt by the House of Representatives of limiting the constitutional right to own arms.

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In January 2018, the National Association for the Right to Arms (NAGR) awarded the congressman for fighting on his behalf. This organization often considers the demonstrations of the National Rifle Association (NRA), the best known in the United States, to be mild. That is, they sit to the right of the benchmark entity in the defense of arms. “Thomas Massie has the principles and guts to fight for the Second Amendment“said the president of the NAGR, Dudley Brown.

Congressman Massie’s bad relationship with the NRA goes a long way. In 2019, after being accused of being on the payroll of this lobi, denied the major and said they had not given him a penny in the last two elections. And that in total, since 2012 he had received $ 2,000 from the National Rifle Association, a debt that, he said through Twitter, he considers more than paid because, as he assured, he has spent more than 10 times on weapons of fire.

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