Days after Michigan school shooting, a Republican lawmaker posted an ‘insensitive’ picture of him and what appears to be his family members, holding firearms resembling machine guns and semi-automatic weapons.
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“Merry Christmas! Ps Santa, please bring ammo,” the US Representative for Kentucky, Thomas Massie, wrote on Twitter.
Shooting in Michigan’s Oxford high school left four teenagers dead. Ethan Crumbley, 15, is facing terrorism and murder charges and his parents, who were arrested on Saturday, involuntary manslaughter. Six students and a teacher were wounded in the shooting.
A third party will investigate events at Oxford High School that occurred before a school shooting that left four students dead and six other students and a teacher wounded, the Michigan district’s superintendent said.
The US law doesn’t allow anyone but military, law enforcement and civilians who have obtained special licenses to own weapons such as machine guns for weapons made before May 1986.
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Fred Guttenberg, an activist against gun violence, condemned the picture. Posting a picture of his 14-year-old daughter who was killed during the 2018 Parkland school shooting in Florida, he wrote, “Since we are sharing family photos, here are mine. One is the last photo I ever took of Jaime, the other is where she is buried because of the Parkland school shooting.”
“The Michigan school shooter and his family used to take photos like yours as well.”
John Yarmuth, representative for Kentucky’s 3rd congressional district, said, “I’m old enough to remember Republicans screaming that it was insensitive to try to protect people from gun violence after a tragedy.”
“I promise not everyone in Kentucky is an insensitive asshole,” he added. The shooting in Oxford, Michigan, was the latest in a string of such incidents that have prompted fierce debates over school safety, gun control and gun rights.
