Nashville college capturing blamed on Republicans, gun tradition by media: ‘GOP gun rights fantasy’

The liberal media rushed responsible the tragic Nashville, Tennessee, capturing on Republicans and Second Modification supporters after six college students and workers members had been killed at a non-public Christian college. 

28-year-old Audrey Hale, who recognized as transgender, opened hearth on the Covenant College in Nashville Monday. Hale was shot lifeless by police, and among the assailant’s writings had been present in a close-by car that exposed the assault was “calculated and deliberate.” 

Within the aftermath of the capturing, The Washington Submit printed an article in regards to the capturing that related one GOP congressman’s assist for firearms to the tragic assault.

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The Submit story on Rep. Andrew Ogles, R-Tenn., whose district was immediately affected by the capturing, pointed to a photograph of the freshman congressman together with his household all posing with weapons for a Christmas card. The article forged him as a “sturdy proponent of the Second Modification and gun possession,” earlier than quoting immediately from his marketing campaign web site:

“Disarming the individuals is the simplest technique to enslave them, and we should stay vigilant when anybody seeks to erode our civil liberties. The rights of the individuals to maintain and bear arms, shield themselves and their households, and forestall tyrannical rule is a elementary liberty of our constitutional republic.”

A Twitter account tied to the newspaper tweeted the article with the textual content, “GOP congressman from Nashville district ‘heartbroken’ by capturing. A 2021 photograph reveals his household with firearms,” nevertheless it was subsequently deleted.

The Washington Submit didn’t reply instantly to a request for remark from Fox Information Digital.

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Former Democratic senator turned NBC analyst Claire McCaskill additionally focused Rep. Ogles for his Christmas card. 

“That is the congressman who represents the college the place the kids had been slaughtered this morning. I’m positive he could have ideas and prayers,” she tweeted. 

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AFP White Home correspondent Sebastian Smith likewise seized on the chance to assault Ogles in a tweet Monday night time. 

“Rep. Ogles is tweeting ‘ideas and prayers’ as a response to the gunning down of kids by a toddler armed with a number of firearms on the Nashville non-public college right now. He apparently is aware of loads about firearms, judging by the Christmas household pic he distributed,” he wrote.

Rep. Ogles didn’t reply instantly to a request for remark from Fox Information Digital.

An MSNBC opinion columnist additionally jumped into the fray after the Nashville capturing with a bit headlined, “The hole between GOP gun rights fantasy and Nashville’s actuality.”

The author argued that Republican assist for “high-minded discuss ‘constitutional carry’ hides what number of arguments about gun rights are actually about the best to look ‘cool.’”

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace claimed that Republicans “who put on AR-15 model pins on their lapels” have an “enthusiasm” for “gun tradition,” in a phase from Monday flagged by NewsBusters’ Managing Editor Curtis Houck. 

Fox Information’ Lawrence Richard contributed to this report.  

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