Priceless: Anti-Gunner Booted from Hearing After Threatening To 'Blow Away' Pro-2A Attendees
Apparently, those who want to seriously regulate guns also include those who would want to use them in a violent manner.
That’s at least the takeaway from a hearing Monday in Connecticut, where a woman was thrown out after she was caught texting that she would kill Second Amendment supporters if given access to a firearm.
According to WTNH-TV’s Mark Davis, the woman was spotted at the state capitol in Hartford texting that she would kill National Rifle Association members and a Republican lawmaker known for his conservative view on the Second Amendment.
Woman expelled from gun hearing after being seen sending this text about a state lawmaker. pic.twitter.com/ySVc9Zm9x5
— Mark Davis (@markdavisWTNH) March 11, 2019
“If I had a gun, I’d blow away Sampson and a large group of NRA…” the text message read.
According to the Hartford Courant, the woman was texting her daughter
“Lt. Glen Richards of the Capitol police said the woman’s text message was spotted by another person in the hearing room,” the Courant reported. “She was removed from the room, was not arrested and departed from the building without any further disturbance.”
The removal was captured in a video that was uploaded to Facebook.
The unnamed woman was referring to state Sen. Rob Sampson, a noted Second Amendment supporter in the Connecticut legislature.
On his Twitter page, Sampson describes himself as a “Leading Constitutional Conservative Republican in the Connecticut General Assembly” and a “NRA Defender of Freedom Award recipient.”
According to Newsweek, he also has an A+ rating from the group on Second Amendment issues.
So, apparently, given the opportunity, this woman would kill both a state senator and members of the National Rifle Association. Well, I guess we can tell why she doesn’t want guns around.
The occasion where the texting took place, according to The Daily Caller, was a Judiciary Committee hearing that looked at several new gun control measures under consideration.
On the agenda were an update to the state’s safe gun-storage laws, regulations on 3-D printed guns, open carry permit restrictions and a bill that would disallow cities from enacting their own firearm regulations.
The hearing was a contentious one, with both pro-Second Amendment activists and gun control supporters present.
Among those in attendance were the parents of Ethan Song, a Connecticut teen who died after accidentally shooting himself with a gun at a friend’s house, according to the Danbury News-Times.
The Connecticut teen who fatally shot himself while playing with a gun at a friend’s house would likely still be alive if the state had a law requiring the safe storage of firearms, his parents told lawmakers today. https://t.co/asfl2Ei3mB
— The News-Times (@NewsTimes) March 11, 2019
Contentious though the hearing may have been, I fail to see the reason why anyone would threaten a state senator and members of the NRA.
This might seem harmless until you consider animus behind the individual who shot Rep. Steve Scalise and several other Republicans during what could have been massacre in the summer of 2017.
I understand that this was probably a very bad joke, but that doesn’t fly in the current environment.
After all, these are people who are lecturing us about gun violence and then joking around about it in a public forum where people can apparently see your text messages. It’s also such arrant hypocrisy that it beggars belief.
And yet again, this demonstrates why conservatives demand the right to be armed. Regardless of whether this woman was joking, plenty of nut jobs aren’t.
The best form of protection isn’t disarming law-abiding citizens in the face of threats. It’s citizens being able to counter them.
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