Critics Slam Lindsey Graham for Posting Video Of Himself Shooting an Assault Weapon on Heels ...

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Critics Slam Lindsey Graham for Posting Video Of Himself Shooting an Assault Weapon on Heels of Massacres

By Tommy ChristopherApr 2nd, 2021, 9:07 am

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham touched off a fierce backlash from critics when he posted a video of himself shooting an AR-15 on the heels of high-profile gun massacres in Georgia, Colorado, and California.

Last week, Graham explained that he owns an AR-15 because in the case of a natural disaster, “gangs” will leave him alone. And on Thursday, he attempted to spread the word about his skill by posting a video in which he fires 10 shots in 16 seconds at a shooting range, captioned with the false claim that “In 1994, there was an Assault Weapons Ban – the evidence indicates that there was really no change at all in crime because the crooks are going to get a gun!”

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Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime was killed in the Parkland massacre, wrote “Today, @LindseyGrahamSC showed off with the weapon used to kill my daughter and the weapon of choice for mass murderers. Today, Lindsey will cost lives. Lindsey, all future mass murderers are paying attention to you and you just showed them what to use.

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[jmbar2]

1. I misread the title and was expecting to see Lindsey in heels shooting a gun.

[luvs2sing]

3. I did the same.

Couldn’t wait to read that article and was sooooo disappointed.

[intrepidity]

4. Glad I wasn't alone

[Sur Zobra]

11. Me too

I thought it might be a lagging April Fool’s post

[intrepidity]

2. Jeez... I misread that as "...IN heels"! nt

[CatWoman]

5. wait!!!!!

Lindsey isn't wearing heels

[speak easy]

6. In heels?

Oh, I read it wrong.

[Botany]

10. Lindsey in heels?

[speak easy]

12. That's hot

but I have a suspicion it's not Lindsey

[Bristlecone]

7. He really is a scumbag.

[Botany]

8. Lindsey shamelessly lies

Graham, "In 1994, there was an Assault Weapons Ban – the evidence indicates that there was really no change
at all in crime."

[krispos42]

17. AR-15s were still sold during the ban... they just weren't assault weapons

"Assault weapon" is an arbitrary definition of combinations of external features on semiautomatic rifles.

Take off one or two of the external features, it's no longer an assault weapon.

If a rifle is semiautomatic and feeds from a detachable magazine, per the 1993 ban, it legally could have one feature from this list:

Pistol grip
Folding or collapsable buttstock
Bayonet mount
Muzzle-flash reducer
Attachment for firing rifle grenades

Two or more features= assault weapon.
Zero or one feature= not an assault weapon.

All the people screaming about how we need to ban assault weapons are really screaming about banning protruding pistol grips, bayonet mounts, folding buttocks, and flash hiders.

[-misanthroptimist]

9. "No change at all in crime"

Slick, Lindsey. Now, how did the AWB affect mass shootings? I ask because that was its actual purpose. Never mind, found the answer myself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban#Mass_shootings

I guess we know why Lindsey used "crime" instead of "mass shootings." Pretty slimy.

[Bev54]

13. This is for his new tinder profile.

[Midnight Writer]

14. Asshole probably uses pictures of schoolkids for targets. He might as well.

[uponit7771]

15. Of course this asshole was the first to grab a gat and get busy with 1/6 Trump Terrorist or was he

... hiding out with the rest of the 82 Chair Borne gunner crew?!

Cowards

[Mr. Ected]

16. I'd hate to be the one emptying Lindsey's underwear of its spent shells

If someone made him the target of one of those American-as-apple-pie assault weapons.

*I think we all know he's shooting blanks*