Oh the pretzels republicans will twist themselves into to oppose any tiny measure to advance gun safety laws. Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) in her long rant on the House floor against the gun safety bill on Tuesday said that she would shoot her grandchildren to save them as a last resort.
Listen to her words in the first 20 seconds of the speech -
In her boiler-plate response, she does not even use the word “misspoke”. So, Lesko meant what she said?
Here are some head-shaking responses -
We can presume these words somehow resonate with the loony right, but what kind of sublimal message is there for the gun-crazy republican base in her ranting statement?
Is Debbie Lesko saying that shooting her grandchildren would be a last resort to protect her privilege to own and shoot guns?
Even if we accept that by “them” she meant some fictitious criminals (read that as POC, LBGTQ, etc), she, like all republicans, is perpetrating the lie that we live in some sort of wild-wild-west society where grandmas need to be armed to the teeth to protect grandchildren and the clueless fearful base simply laps it up.
What do you think?
Republicans will do what they have always done — pump up the fear in their base and keep pushing the country back into the dark ages. Our work is cut out to stop these anti-democratic, anti-American, anti-humanity monsters; let’s spread the truth and get more voters to vote for Democrats this November.