A Republican has shared a Christmas picture in which her four children are brandishing guns.
Representative Lauren Boebert shared the snap of her kids holding what appear to be assault rifles just days after a similar photo from Republican congressman Thomas Massie was met with widespread outrage.
Both images have been shared in the wake of the Oxford High School shooting in Michigan which claimed the lives of four students and injured at least eight others.
Boebert shared the image with the message: “The Boeberts have your six, @RepThomasMassie! (No spare ammo for you, though).”
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The Boeberts have your six, @RepThomasMassie!
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) December 8, 2021
(No spare ammo for you, though) pic.twitter.com/EnDYuXaHDF
The joke about ammunition is in response to Massie’s gun-toting tweet which asked Santa to bring ammo.
Massie’s picture was retweeted by Boebert along with the message: “That’s my kind of Christmas card!”
That's my kind of Christmas card! https://t.co/tqjObtY1to
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) December 4, 2021
After posting the picture, Boebert has also received backlash, with Piers Morgan calling it “sickening”:
My God…. it’s been just a week since America suffered yet another horrific school shooting and a second politician posts a photo of her young family parading semi-automatic weapons in front of a Christmas tree.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) December 8, 2021
This is sickening. 🤬 https://t.co/NxNYLEyafI
Imagine being this proud of being a worldwide embarrassment.
— Angela Belcamino (@AngelaBelcamino) December 8, 2021
But here we are.
She has four kids holding guns in this pic. That’s exactly the same number of kids gunned down and murdered by another kid with a gun just days ago. This party is a death cult, part 335. https://t.co/EZ9APhaGvD
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) December 8, 2021
Extra points for your smallest child being around the same age as the kids lost at Sandy Hook and holding the same weapon. It takes a special kind of stupid to be that cruel.. @laurenboebert
— NoelCaslerComedy (@caslernoel) December 8, 2021
Why not focus on legislating or governing? You're a member of Congress, right? This is acting more like a social media influencer.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) December 8, 2021
This is disgusting on so many levels.
— Ruthanne Sanchez (@LouisShortXIV) December 8, 2021
I srsly don't understand this mentality. Weown guns & we've taught our kids how to handle them responsibly. And I feel like part of that is teaching them not to fetishize guns.
— Red state blues (@LDonivan) December 8, 2021
🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢 reboot that country. https://t.co/6qkm4M0Wl6
— Ryan (@itsRyanUnicomb) December 8, 2021
This is not normal. Nor should it ever be treated as such. https://t.co/q3Lp3IFpOb
— Steven DeKnight (@stevendeknight) December 8, 2021
However others had more light-hearted critiques:
Ok so I don't want to take the bait on the fact that there is no circumstance where children should be carrying guns but I have to weigh in on the MAJOR gaffe in this photo...
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) December 8, 2021
She purchased her child a Raiders sweatshirt? In Colorado? https://t.co/h5or9FiTCP
MeidasTouch said they would not share the “deranged” image of Boebert’s children “holding weapons of war”.
Instead they shared a picture of the four victims in the Oxford High School shooting on November 30. The four killed in the shooting were Tate Myre, 16; Hana St Juliana, 14; Madisyn Baldwin, 17 and Justin Shilling, 17.
We will not be posting the deranged photo of Lauren Boebert and her young children holding weapons of war.
— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) December 8, 2021
Instead, let's honor the teens who were murdered due to this fetishization of guns:
Hana St. Juliana, 14.
Tate Myre, 16.
Justin Shilling, 17.
Madisyn Baldwin, 17. pic.twitter.com/IdQnHXobNA
Hopefully this is the last image of Republicans showing off their guns we have to see this year…
