A Channel 4 correspondent has been told to 'go back' to her 'own country' by a controversial US Republican Party politician in a heated debate over the Second Amendment.
The Representative for Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, reacted explosively to Washington correspondent Siobhan Kennedy's statements, after she pointed out that the UK 'doesn't have mass shootings' or the Second Amendment. As reported by the Mirror, Siobhan was responding to Greene's statement that it is her party's duty to 'defend the Second Amendment.
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Siobhan then said to Ms Greene: "We don't have guns in the UK, that is true, but we don’t have mass shootings either. And our children aren't scared to go to school." The 48-year-old politician quickly rebutted: ""You have mass stabbings, lady. You have all kinds of murder and you've got laws against that."
Siobhan then replied: "Not like the rates here." Obviously annoyed by the statement, Ms Greene then sensationally said: "Well, you can go back to your country and worry about your no guns. We like our guns here."
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The politician then continued the feud over on social media, posting the video of the exchange on Twitter. She wrote: "When British press wants to argue about our God-given American gun rights, my answer is: "go back to your own country."
Siobhan didn't back down, replying: "(Ms Greene) isn't happy with me for pointing out that the proposed gun legislation is not about taking her guns away! Nor is knife crime in the UK in any way comparable with gun crime here. There are no "mass stabbings" in the UK. Yet here kids are frightened to go to school?"
Later on, Siobhan spoke to MailOnline, saying: "It was a press conference of the Second Amendment caucus – in other words a group of very conservative Republicans who reject any type of gun control, like the legislation going through Congress right now which looks very likely to pass.
"It was a big back and forth after I asked her and the other members of group essentially what they were scared of- that no one was threatening to take their guns away.
"It's important to call these politicians out and hold them to account."
Meanwhile, Channel 4 reported that the new gun safety laws had won support from both the Republican and Democrat party, for the first time in the US Senate in decades. Siobhan responded to this news on social media, writing: "This is what happens when you dare ask (Ms Greene) why she simultaneously says her heart bleeds for Uvalde, yet opposes every legislative measure designed to prevent another mass shooting from happening."
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