GOP lawmakers wore pearls while gun violence victims testified. Activists were outraged.
Source: Washington Post
A handful of male lawmakers dressed up for a hearing they presided over Tuesday in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, donning pearl necklaces as activists testified about their experiences with gun violence.
Images from the statehouse where legislators were considering arguments over a bill that would make it easier to take guns away from potentially dangerous people caromed across social media as critics lobbed accusations of sexism and insensitivity at the necklace-wearing men.
The implication was clear, they said: These politicians thought gun-control activists were clutching their pearls in overwrought and self-righteous outrage and, specifically, female outrage.
Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/2019/03/06/gop-lawmakers-wore-pearls-while-gun-violence-victims-testified-activists-were-outraged/
There is no low to which they will not sink
burrowowl
(17,638 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Of course the hypocrites would deny that that was what they were doing - laughing at and mocking the victims of gun violence.
dalton99a
(81,433 posts)JDC
(10,125 posts)*typo
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)The 5 male Republicans all have to start campaigning for reelection, and just guess what's going to be all over their districts?
Maybe those idiots with pearls, were trying to make their penises grow, with help from the NRA.
That is truly brutal.
UpInArms
(51,280 posts)Snotty asswipes .... 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
sheshe2
(83,728 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,650 posts)That, or some Nazi memorabilia. Look at all the lapel pins on his jacket.
Utter assholes. How disgusting can they get? Don't answer that. I'm sure they can, and will, get a lot worse than this.
chwaliszewski
(1,514 posts)Hell, he's probably got one in the passenger seat of his truck.
Dem2theMax
(9,650 posts)And of course the gun in the gun rack. I'm sure the gun matches the lapel pin gun.
I can't wait for sanity to reign supreme in this country again.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)This is Trump level stupid.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,405 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Except there's NOTHING amusing about gun violence.
I'd invite every one of those bastards to visit my niece's school - Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida - with their pearl necklaces. But then, they might learn something.
I am so sick of these gun-humping, trigger-happy fuckwads. How DARE you sit there and mock the victims of gun violence ??
defacto7
(13,485 posts)TeamPooka
(24,218 posts)NBachers
(17,098 posts)DirtEdonE
(1,220 posts)What complete assholes they truly are.
THIS type of infantile display is one more reason why none of these idiots needs to own a gun.
Every one of these gun toting maniacs is a "law-abiding citizen" until they inevitably lose it and turn to their man-maker, their firearm. Then they're no longer law-abiding, they're just another fucking nut with a gun.
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)shoot these idiots down (figuratively, of course) on their next ballot appearance. They all deserve to be thrown out on their sorry asses and branded with an "A" for asshole on their foreheads.
Alwaysna
(574 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Talitha
(6,581 posts)Damn them.
(If I said what I really wanted to, my post would be deleted...
Just use your imagination regarding what I'd say - you'll probably be spot-on.)
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,489 posts)as expected, Repugs try to throw shade.....
Lawmakers with pearl necklaces at hearing on 'red flag' bill stir social media
By DAVE SOLOMON New Hampshire Union Leader Mar 5, 2019
Read here: https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/lawmakers-with-pearl-necklaces-at-hearing-on-red-flag-bill/article_ef9156c0-db59-59e9-9bd2-e028f50aa103.html?block_id=664688
(snip)
Watts tweeted pictures of male lawmakers sporting long pearl necklaces to her nearly 300,000 followers as she observed the morning session of Tuesdays hearing on a red flag law proposed in the Granite State. Red flag laws allow for the confiscation of firearms from an individual who may be a risk to himself or others, based on a judges order.
Male New Hampshire lawmakers on the hearing committee wearing pearls to mock @MomsDemand volunteers and gun safety advocates, Watts tweeted.
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Did not find a mentions of it in the Concord Monitor, but this article describes quite a row over a gun control bill from Feb. 27:
Legislator warns N.H. will have dead children if school gun ban passes
By ETHAN DeWITT
Monitor staff Published: 2/27/2019
Link: https://www.concordmonitor.com/New-Hampshire-House-gun-free-zone-bill-John-Burt-reprimand-23790930
(snip)
The comments came during the debate for House Bill 564, which would establish a blanket ban on loaded firearms on school grounds or school buses, making exceptions for law enforcement officials and those picking up children who leave their unloaded firearms in their vehicles.
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BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)You can only replace them.
FM123
(10,053 posts)OMGWTF
(3,949 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)I kid I kid! (...kinda).
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)...yeah the dimwit in the middle of this photo.
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keithbvadu2
(36,749 posts)What if it was their family the victims of gun violence?
tanyev
(42,543 posts)Obviously those days are over.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)We were given the pearls by the Womens Defense League, Rep. Scott Wallace told NHJournal. They ask us to wear them as a sign of support. And not just the guys. Women legislators were wearing them, too.
Pro-2A lawmakers, male and female, wear pearls at the request of the NH Womens Defense League.
Kimberly Morin, president of the Womens Defense League of New Hampshire, confirmed Wallaces account.
Several years ago during a hearing on the issue of constitutional carry ironically in the same hall the Womens Defense League testified, Morin said. We were dressed in business suits, business professional attire, and a few of us happened to be wearing pearls. Ever since then, we made pearls a symbol of the womens Defense League and supporting womens rights, the Second Amendment, and being against gun control
In fact, Morin notes, when Gov. Chris Sununu signed the constitutional carry bill two years ago, he was given a string of pearls by the Womens Defense League.
Lots of pearls at the signing of the constitutional carry bill in 2017.
Now, its easy to see how wearing pearls to support a womans right to keep and bear arms in self defense could be confusing. So its entirely possible that Watts and other anti-gun activists simply jumped the gun (pardon the pun) and mistakenly smeared these GOP lawmakers as insensitive oafs who mocked grieving mothers. It could all be a simple misunderstanding.
Except its not. When the Union-Leaders Dave Solomon caught up with Watts and explained the symbolism and its source, Shannon Watts continued to repeat her clearly untrue claim that Republicans were mocking grieving moms.
These lawmakers decided to wear symbols that essentially mocked the process, she said.
https://www.insidesources.com/no-n-h-gop-legislators-did-not-wear-pearls-to-mock-grieving-mothers-and-shannon-watts-knows-it/
LakeArenal
(28,813 posts)I was stupefied that GOP would do that.
I wish this article would get more play.
But then... never mind. Those same dudes probably wouldnt give a Dem the benefit of doubt either.
2naSalit
(86,522 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)WE punish them, or they get away with it.
RobinA
(9,888 posts)It people would stop with the instant outrage at every little thing, this stuff would not be happening. Even if the story were true, it's so idiotic it isn't even worth a share. And I don't own a gun, never shot a gun, and am agnostic on gun control.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Real fuckin' tough guy this asshole is... Real comedian
ProfessorPlum
(11,254 posts)subhuman monsters.
I will note for the record that here on DU, if you even imply another poster is pearl clutching, your post will be hidden. To me, that is overly sensitive. But what these fucksticks are doing is seriously evil.
Gatoloco
(17 posts)Guaranteed.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)They'll get away with everything unless WE do the punishing.
geralmar
(2,138 posts)They're, you know, effeminate.
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)It wasnt amusing either.
When you find your humor in using gender-based punchlines; youve reached the bottom of the barrel.
Its the 21st century; try to keep up...
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)according to the Urban dictionary.