An American politician told a Channel 4 journalist to “go back to your country” after she quizzed her over US gun laws.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene lost her temper after being questioned by Siobhan Kennedy on the validity of the Second Amendment, with its right to bear arms.
The British journalist argued the UK did not have the same rates of murders as the US.
When Donald Trump-fanatic Greene, 48, stepped away from the microphone she yelled it is “our job to defend” the amendment.
Kennedy replied: “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 Republican shot back: “You have mass stabbings, lady. You’ve all kinds of murder and you’ve got laws against that.’”
“Not like the rates here,” Channel 4 ’s Washington Correspondent said.
Greene, who represents Georgia, waved off the response, saying: “Well, you can go back to your country and worry about your no guns.”
She later said: “When British press wants to argue about our God-given American gun rights, my answer is: ‘Go back to your own country.’”
Hitting back online, Kennedy said: “Marjorie Taylor 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?”
The US had 4.96 murders by blades for every million of population in 2016, compared to 3.26 in the UK.
The dispute came a day after the Senate took steps toward passing major federal gun safety legislation after the Robb Elementary Texas school shooting, which claimed 19 children and two teachers on May 24.
Days earlier 10 people were killed at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
