In his speech last week at the 2022 NRA Convention, North Carolina’s Republican Lt. Governor Mark Robinson threatened to murder government officials with his AR-15. Just see for yourself:
This is far from the first time Robinson has been caught saying insane things. He has previously claimed that gays and lesbians are “filth” and that abortion is a “sin” — except, of course, for the abortion he obtained for his now-wife in 1989.
Robinson has been a gun extremist for only a few years. When his gun-rights rant at a Greensboro City Council meeting went viral in 2019, Robinson had never even been active in politics. (He also, it was later discovered, did not even own a gun.) But right-wing stardom propelled him to North Carolina’s largely ceremonial Lt. Governorship in 2020, and he is now all but the confirmed Republican candidate for the Governorship in 2024.
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