Sunday 27 November 2022 02:02 PM Marjorie Taylor Greene responds to gun control push with photo of herself and a ... trends now
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Firebrand Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on Saturday blasted calls for an assault weapons ban in the wake of the deadly mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs.
She also labeled the shooter 'a transgender' after defense attorneys said the suspect uses 'they/them' pronouns - which could possibly complicate prosecutors' push for hate crimes charges.
The Georgia Republican capped off the Twitter post with a photo of herself grinning while crouched over a dead wild hog and armed with an assault-style rifle.
Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, is accused of killing five people and wounding more than a dozen others after opening fire at Club Q on the night of November 19.
Human rights activists and the LGBTQ community have decried the shooting as motivated by anti-gay hate, and have blamed voices on the right for fomenting it via today's heated culture war about the rights of transgender youth.
Democrats led by President Joe Biden have renewed calls for an assault weapons ban in the shooting's fallout. Aldrich used an assault-style weapon and a handgun to carry out his attack, authorities have said.
But Greene came out swinging on Saturday, calling the AR-15 - a popular semi-automatic rifle -
