Disgraced Rep. George Santos was among several Republican lawmakers spotted sporting an assault rifle lapel pin on the House floor this week, a move that outraged several Democrats amid a recent sp…
Disgraced Rep. George Santos was among several Republican lawmakers spotted sporting an assault rifle lapel pin on the House floor this week, a move that outraged several Democrats amid a recent spate of mass shootings.
“George Santos was wearing an assault weapon lapel pin literally days after a string of mass shootings. Call it tone-deaf or stupid, but one things for certain: he’s not fit to serve in Congress,” Rep. Jimmy Gomez Santos’ fellow freshman colleague Rep. Ana Paulina Luna also repped her support for the Second Amendment by wearing one of the pins, which appeared to be modeled after an AR-15 rifle.
Rep. David Cicilline , who is the sponsor of legislation that would outlaw assault rifles, retweeted a photo on Wednesday of Luna and Santos with their pins and expressed his outrage over their politically-charged fashion accessories. “As gun violence survivors were at the Capitol to mark Gun Violence Survivors Week and help me reintroduce the #AssaultWeaponsBan, this is what my colleagues were doing. What is wrong with you?” Cicilline tweeted.
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