Wear it with pride
We’re in the era of assault rifle lapel pins.
Recently, Republican members of Congress, Rep. George Santos and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna have been spotted wearing lapel pins resembling miniature AR-15 rifles.
“Where are these assault weapon pins coming from? Who is passing these out?” Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez tweeted.
In another tweet, Gomez noted that Luna had worn the pin at an Oversight hearing less than 48 hours after her state of Florida experienced a mass shooting that wounded 11 people.
So? Mass shootings smell like Freedom.
The mystery of the lapel pins has now been solved. Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde from Georgia owns a gun store and has now taken responsibility for handing them out.
“I hear that this little pin I’ve been giving out on the House floor has been triggering some of my Democrat colleagues,” he said in a video posted to Twitter. “Well, I give it out to remind people of the Second Amendment of the Constitution and how important it is in preserving our liberties.”
The liberty to shoot up schools and Walmarts and Targets and gay bars and hospitals and subway trains and Krogers and FedEx and bowling alleys…
The congressman owns Clyde Armory in Athens, which makes millions selling military-style rifles, body armor, ammunition, and other weapon accessories.
His handing out of the lapel pins comes after there have been an estimated 54 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
Democratic Rep. Cori Bush noted that lawmakers wore the pins during National Gun Violence Survivors Week.
Goddam Democrats have no sense of humor.
I hate the use of “triggering” to mean “upsetting”. It leads to situations like this where someone might genuinely have a panic reaction from post-traumatic stress, and it’s being glossed over as if people simply don’t like something.
Does anyone have a ‘dead child’ pin they can distribute?
So many of them are conservative Christians worshiping a tool of bloody execution, often wearing it around their necks, it probably comes naturally to them.
iknklst; why not? their loving Gawd is the biggest mass murderer i history per their book of appalling fairy tales.
Heh heh
Triggering, get it?
Triggered over triggers.
Heh heh
If you’re gonna have a firearm as a lapel pin, how about not using such a pansy one? Maybe a bolter or a meltagun, or an EE-3 blaster rifle?
Why the AR-15? Because it has been used in quite a few mass shootings, and is among the semiautomatic weapons targeted by attempts to ban assault-style weapons. Support your local mass-murderer.
They have the added benefit of being real. :-)
A lapel pin to support gun control would be a splendid idea, and it would not surprise me to see something like that happen in response to this nonsense. Look for Lapel Wars (Sartorial Wars?) to begin this year.