Cawthorn says Boulder shooting 'linked' to Biden's Syria airstrikes

[DonViejo]

BY LAURA KELLY - 04/02/21 11:32 AM EDT

Freshman Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) said in a recent interview he believes the man alleged to have carried out a mass shooting in a Colorado supermarket last week was inspired to violence following U.S. airstrikes in Syria, which he called a “failed policy” of the Biden administration.

Cawthorn made his remarks in an interview with a CBS affiliate in North Carolina that was surveying lawmakers' attitudes towards gun reform legislation in the wake of the shooting in Boulder, which left 10 people dead, including a police officer.

The youngest lawmaker in Congress said he opposes any legislation that would “restrict people from obtaining a firearm" and called for increased access to mental health services but added he believes President Biden's policy in Syria is also to blame.

“I think this is really a failed policy by the Joe Biden administration because they just started dropping bombs on Syria last month, even though we had ... we have been reaching historic peace deals in the Middle East,” Cawthorn told WJZY-CBS on March 26. “And now the Syrian immigrant is now shooting people up in Colorado. I think the two are linked.”

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https://thehill.com/policy/international/546169-cawthorn-says-boulder-shooting-linked-to-bidens-syria-airstrikes

[NewHendoLib]

1. fucking no nothing nutcase

[agingdem]

6. and once again Cawthorn's total lack of

anything resembling mental acuity is on full display...

[Ocelot II]

2. Cawthorn is a moron.

The shooter immigrated from Syria as a very small child, and had a history of mental illness. Whatever his motivation might have been, I very much doubt that he was thinking about airstrikes against Syria when he decided to shoot up a grocery store.

[stillcool]

3. these republicans have zero credibility...

whatever they say is like a verbal gnat.

[Dawson Leery]

4. He immigrated 20 years ago.

Try again, connie!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Something's not right with that boy

[The Magistrate]

11. My Sentiments Precisely, Sir

[Whiskeytide]

7. Someone should ask the interviewer if that comment smelled bad since ...

... Cawthorn pulled it straight out of his ass.

[jpak]

8. Maybe he was motivated by Trump's air and cruise missile strikes in Syria

Could be moran?

[bahboo]

9. the fuck is wrong with his brain...

well...he is a republican....

[Politicub]

10. This man is so stupid. The idiocy just oozes from his lying mouth...

an ever-spewing font of dumb-assery.