in Congress spewing hate, fear, and violence:
Conservative conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested that the mass shooting carried out in Las Vegas, Nevada, in October of 2017 was part of a wider plot to push gun control legislation in a social media video that resurfaced on Wednesday.
Greene, a known QAnon supporter and vocal proponent of Donald Trump, was recently elected to represent Georgia's 14th congressional district in the U.S. House. Her claims about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting began to circulate alongside a wave of older videos and messages shared to social media, in which Greene promoted false conspiracies surrounding the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Both are among the deadliest mass shootings in United States history, resulting in more than 75 fatalities between them, with the Las Vegas shooting being the deadliest.
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Greene is a prominent defender of Second Amendment rights and often weaves her opposition to gun control legislation into conspiracy theories that concern mass shootings. This is also the case in Wednesday's resurfaced social media video, where the congresswoman incorrectly claims that anti-gun lobbyists were behind the Harvest festival shooting.
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The congresswoman quickly faced public backlash for her remarks about the Harvest festival attack on Twitter. Journalist David Boardman, former executive editor and Vice President of The Seattle Times, was among those who voiced strong reactions to Greene's claims, calling them "disturbing" in a message posted to the social platform Wednesday afternoon.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/marjorie-taylor-greene-claims-las-vegas-shooting-was-plotted-by-anti-gun-lobbyists-in-resurfaced-video/ar-BB1d9tyd?li=BBnb7KzThe Second Amendment was never meant to be, nor is it, about insurrection, overthrowing a duly elected government, or pacifying QAnon crazies like this elected idiot. The Capitol riot proved that we need to take our country back from the radicals who use the Second Amendment to promote their hatred, racism, and bigotry, not through more violence but through legislation and civil process.
Guns do not belong in the home and not on our streets, nor in public for any reason. There is absolutely no justification for standing your ground while armed with a deadly weapon. Crimes committed with a lethal weapon deserve extremely harsh prison terms.
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