So, on the House floor, Lauren Boebert just argued against gun background checks by telling a story

[demmiblue]

So, on the House floor, Lauren Boebert just argued against gun background checks by telling a story about a man being beaten to death outside her restaurant in CO. But the story is a lie. The man actually died of a drug overdose: https://coloradosun.com/2020/09/14/lau

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But there is some truth-bending in how Shooters became an armed food emporium. In a story Boebert has made an integral part of her personal lore in speeches and interviews, she has often repeated that she decided to arm herself and her waitresses because she feared for everyone’s safety after a man was “murdered” in the alley behind her new restaurant.

“There was a violent altercation in our back alley where a man was physically beaten to death and it immediately prompted the question, ‘How will I defend my people?’ So, I began to carry that day,” Boebert told the Durango Herald last year.

The Rifle Police Department has no record of such a murder. A man did die on the sidewalk down the street from Shooters in the early morning of Aug. 22, 2013. Initially, it was investigated as a possible homicide, but an autopsy determined the man died from a drug overdose.

[Rorey]

1. Many here in Colorado call her food poison establishment "Shitters"

It's a more fitting name.

[underpants]

2. Sounds like a charming place she has there.

From the photo I’m guessing these “young girls” 😳 are part of the draw.

[dilby]

3. So she wants it to be easier to buy a firearm and harder to vote.

Makes absolute perfect sense.

[lagomorph777]

4. The violent version of Hooters?

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

8. hence, "Shooters".

Boebert is a liar and an absolute embarrassment to the state of Colorado and the House. Hopefully, Colorado voters decide to send her "packing" back to her restaurant next election cycle.

[bullimiami]

5. the guns are obviously part of the themed costume. trashy gun toting cowgirl.

just like the furry boots at twin peaks or the orange shorts and tight tshirts at hooters or the tilted kilt tartans.

[Baked Potato]

6. Those feet must reek after a shift.

[redstatebluegirl]

7. She is like Trump always self promoting her own place.

She owned a bunch of back taxes didn't she?

[ZZenith]

9. I am reminded of a quote from the historian Will Durant -

“ Barbarism is like the jungle - it never admits its defeat, it waits patiently for centuries to recover the territory it has lost.”