Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday lashed gun-loving Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) for providing “prayers” for the victims of a mass capturing on the Membership Q homosexual bar in Colorado Springs.
A person armed with a rifle killed 5 individuals and injured 25 earlier than patrons subdued him. Police haven’t disclosed a motive.
Boebert, an extremist who glorifies weapons and has repeatedly attacked members of the LGBTQ group as pedophiles or “groomers” — can’t “ideas and prayers” her approach out of the mass capturing in her dwelling state, Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a tweet responding to Boebert’s superficial acknowledgment of the “completely terrible” information.
“You might have performed a significant function in elevating anti-LGBT+ hate rhetoric and anti-trans lies whereas spending your time in Congress blocking even the commonest sense gun security legal guidelines,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.
Boebert had tweeted the “victims & their households are in my prayers.”
“This lawless violence wants to finish and finish shortly,” she added.
Boebert posed along with her younger sons brandishing rifles on a Christmas greeting final 12 months.
Colorado state Rep. Brianna Titone (D) additionally slammed Boebert Sunday for her incendiary rhetoric “demonizing” members of the LGBTQ group.
“That is one thing that we’ve been on edge about for a very long time. The rhetoric that has been popping out of numerous locations ― particularly from the Colorado Springs space ― has been actually damaging and harmful,” Titone stated in an interview on NBC. “Lots of people have been afraid that that is going to occur and now it's upon us, it’s taking place.”
“We have now a legislator right here in Colorado who has been spewing out issues for years,” Titone replied. “I've known as her out on it, Rep. Boebert, specifically, and plenty of others. We actually simply need them to cease.”
Critics had ideas about Boebert and Ocasio-Cortez’s remark.
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