Rep. Madison Cawthorn tried to board an airplane with a gun! ! ! ! !

[IcyPeas]

ASHEVILLE - U.S. House member Madison Cawthorn had his gun taken by airport police and will likely face a federal fine and loss of a special security status, local and federal officials said.

The Republican congressman representing Western North Carolina's 11th District was attempting to board a plane Feb. 13 when Transportation Security Administration workers found an unloaded gun in his carry-on bag, along with a loaded magazine, according to Asheville Regional Airport officials.

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[leftieNanner]

1. Oh Golly!

He said it was just a silly mistake! Only a little Glock in his carry-on luggage. No biggie.

I'm a young "conservative" Congressman officer. Can't you let it go just this once?


Idiot.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

8. He wanted to be caught guaranteed ... it's a publicity stunt (nt)

[hibbing]

30. Agree n/t

[bahboo]

37. absolutely....god what a piece of shit this piece of shit is....

[Treefrog]

39. I bet you've nailed that.

Spot on. He’s such a tool.

[COL Mustard]

49. He's Such A Stool

Fixed it for you.

[Trueblue1968]

69. he is a HUGE A-hole. Not to be trusted. #LockHimUp

[AllaN01Bear]

23. mistake ,my eye.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. Nobody had talked about him for a couple days in the media so he pulled this stunt (nt)

[Skittles]

5. I think it's political theater for his cult

seriously

[Hugh_Lebowski]

9. Absolutely (nt)

[Docreed2003]

18. Exactly

These jokers have been trying to outdo each other with their outrageousness and this just reeks of a stunt

[Nevilledog]

64. He released a statement

Link to tweet

[Hugh_Lebowski]

65. lolololol ... classic! (nt)

[Enter stage left]

3. MAKE HIM WALK HOME...

No public transportation.

[sop]

13. You mean roll home.

[thenelm1]

27. Can we like individual posts? Count me in on this one. n/t

[Enter stage left]

44. C'mon DU...

I like this post.

Let us like and recommend individual posts.

Sometimes their are better than the original.

At least think about it. OK!

[moose65]

38. Uh - he can't

He’s in a wheelchair.

[Enter stage left]

43. Then make him roll home.

[moose65]

68. He can roll off the edge of the earth

I’m sure he thinks it’s flat

[Vogon_Glory]

58. Or just the No-Fly List until the courts clear/do not clear him

having to get around by Amtrak or the bus systems would be an educational experience for him and perhaps put him in touch with common folk.

[roamer65]

4. Dumb ass.

[Bristlecone]

6. Publicity stunt

[usaf-vet]

59. Yet another example of rules for us to follow and rules they can ignore.

I am so sick of the privileged attitude these GQP congress members have.

We make laws or don't because they do not have to follow anything that DOESN'T benefit them personally.

Here is a simple example that irritates me to no end. Gym Jordan prancing around congress and TV interviews like he is still coaching wrestling. Blue shirt, yellow tie, no suit coat. Show some damn respect for the institution. The fact that he doesn't speaks volumes about the way he behaves.

He FAILED his team member in his previous life, and he fails his constituents and fellow Congress members in this life.

[BoomaofBandM]

7. It happened in February. Why did it take so long?

[ronatchig]

48. The first question

That came to my mind exactly. I live close enough that this should have made the local news. If it was a stunt it sure is a stupid one and costly too. I wonder if he uses campaign cash to pay that fine. Inquiring minds want to know ,ya know.

[GulfCoast66]

10. Yeah, I always accidentally carry my glock(I actually own one) onto the plane.

Forgot I took it out of the safe, grabbed some magazines and threw them into my carry on.

It’s either a play for attention(my vote) or he thought his status would protect him.

I trust he will get the exact penalty I would.

If you become so cavalier about carrying around a gun you should not be able to own one.

[magicarpet]

11. But,... But,... But,... The only reason he brought his Glock on the airplane was he was worried,....

...at 20,000 feet geese or seagulls might get sucked into the jet engines and Cawthorn wanted to be at the ready to bang bang and blast them dead from his window seat so as to avoid a plane crash.

[KS Toronado]

25. So in other words you're saying.......

The only way to stop a bad goose with wings, is with a repug congressman with a fly swatter?

[Thomas Hurt]

12. a grift for campaign cash...."Oh no! My 2nd Amendment rights have been violated! Send money!"

[dalton99a]

14. Stupid attention whore

[Poiuyt]

15. He was worried about gremlins

Put him on the no fly list!

[SergeStorms]

40. My favorite Twilight Zone episode.

I remember seeing it as a kid. Little did I know I was looking at the future Captain James T. Kirk.

The episode with Burgess Meridith as the guy who loved to read ranks a close second though. Little did I know I was looking at the future Penguin of Batman fame.

Wonderful program, for it's time.

[wryter2000]

61. Most of us forget

It was William Shatner in that episode. He was one of TV’s pioneers.

[Cha]

16. Rt TY.. that's my sister's Rep in

Asheville! Ugh!

How GD stupid is he?

[sop]

17. The authorities still allowed him to get on the plane after discovering the pistol.

Airport police offered to "hold the gun" for Cawthorn till he came back on his return flight.

[UTUSN]

19. K&R

[choie]

20. This happened back in Feb

Why are we only hearing about it now

[Justice matters.]

28. his "new" republiQan (fascist) party did a corver up?

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article253145168.html

Rep. Madison Cawthorn tried to carry a gun onto a flight at NC airport in February

David Wheeler, the president of FireMadison.com, said his group received a tip about the incident and filed public information requests to obtain the audio, which was posted on their website along with other documents about the incident. The News & Observer and Charlotte Observer have also obtained the documents and audio.

“If you and I did that, we’d be detained. We’d be questioned. The gun would be secured. A report would be written. We certainly wouldn’t make our flight,” Wheeler said in a phone interview Friday.

He's in the "new" terrorist party...

[IcyPeas]

42. Thanks for the article.

[Silent3]

35. That was my immediate reaction too n/t

[Jerry2144]

21. Place him on

They do not fly list. And also add a note to his criminal file preventing his ever being allowed to own a gun again

[brooklynite]

22. I assume this was followed by "Do you know who I am"?

[AllaN01Bear]

24. mistake ,my eye.

[peppertree]

26. I remember when Bush put Al Gore and Ted Kennedy on the strip-search list - just 'cause he could

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This Nazi bastard needs to be expelled from Congress, among other things.

[LudwigPastorius]

29. Doesn't "Madison Cawthorn" sound like the rich prick character...

in a college frat comedy?

[Rocknation]

31. Guns (unloaded) and ammo (packed separately) go in your CHECKED luggage

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The only gun-related item that can be in carryon luggage is a permit (valid).


Rocknation

[IronLionZion]

32. In case of terrorism, he could shoot the hijackers

since he would think of himself as a good guy with a gun

[Rhiannon12866]

33. I've been in that airport and it's not a large place. No Fly List after this stunt??

[calimary]

60. Why not?

Maybe it’d teach him not to try to sneak a gun onto an airplane.

[Ferrets are Cool]

34. Privilege

[RANDYWILDMAN]

36. This endears him to his voters...

But it should scare the crap out of them.

He is a total idiot.

[Hulk]

41. Wish I wouldn't keep hearing about these assholes.

It's the same ones....over and over again. Wish their constituents would quit sending these shit-for-brains to Washington D.C.

[tenderfoot]

45. Now now, he was in a serious accident a few years back-give him some leeway for his insane bullshit

[Straw Man]

46. It's not a uniquely Republican problem ...

https://apnews.com/article/8e768e7dfa63d9ccf1a3b02041649367

But I do think the word "entitlement" applies. As has been stated, there is a legal way to fly with a firearm: unloaded and in checked luggage.

[Mariana]

47. 1994?

Why do you speak in the present tense ("It's not a uniquely Republican problem..." ) about a story that's 27 years old?

[Straw Man]

70. Simple present tense.

The simple present tense is one of several forms of present tense in English. It is used to describe habits, unchanging situations, general truths, and fixed arrangements.

-- https://www.ef.edu/english-resources/english-grammar/simple-present-tense/

If no Democrat had ever done it, we could say that it is a uniquely Republican problem. That is not the case. File that one under "general truth."

It's not like Republicans do it all the time either. I can think of better issues with which to stoke a hate-fest.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

50. So damn sick of these fascists being given special privileges

by the justice system.

If you or I did that, we’d be detained. We’d be interrogated. The gun would be secured. Reports would be written. We wouldn’t make the flight.

But gun toting fascist insurrectionists like Cawthorn get treated like royalty. Like they are above the law.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

51. Such carelessness is not "well" self-"regulated". . . . nt

[Paladin]

52. Completely unsurprising.

His politics and his wheelchair-bound status will probably allow him to get away with it with minimum punishment.

[TNNurse]

53. This pompous, lying punk

needs some serious consequences. If this were his only asshole behavior, but it is not.

I think a no fly list for maybe 5 years is a start.

[twodogsbarking]

54. I forgot to remove my hat at LAX.

Thought I was headed to Gitmo. It was late at night after a long day.

[DFW]

55. No special treatment

Whatever a black dude in dreadlocks and a BLM T-shirt would have gotten, Cawthorn should get. No mitigating circumstances, because there are none.

[patphil]

56. So, was he arrested?

The law calls for a fine and/or imprisonment. He should get both.
You or I would have been arrested on the spot.
You can transport a gun as long as you have a valid permit for all the states you are visiting, and lock the gun in a hard sided case that is checked and stored in the plane's luggage bay.
Same goes for ammunition.
Attempting to carrying both onto a plane is a very serious offense.

[BlueIdaho]

57. Put him on the do not fly list.

Stunt or no stunt, we are all equal in the eyes of the law.

[Jilly_in_VA]

62. Baby terrorist on wheels

He and Boobert both need to be put in time out, back in their playpens. I hope someone is primarying him...we would probably get another Qpublican from that district since it's pretty deep red, but at least it wouldn't be that little pricklet.

[IcyPeas]

63. It's official: Iraq war vet to spur Democratic primary for Madison Cawthorn's House seat

He took immediate aim at Cawthorn, saying he was running to stop the first-term Henderson County congressman and pointing to accusations by women of inappropriate sexual advances by Cawthorn and his speech at the Washington rally directly preceding the Capitol storming.

"I’m running because Western North Carolina deserves better," Remillard said. "We deserve leaders that will uphold the Constitution and make our lives better, not someone who would incite insurrection and prey on women."

The announcement makes Remillard the second declared candidate in a race expected to draw immense attention and money.

Buncombe County Commissioner Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, a nationally known LGBTQ advocate announced her candidacy March 4 and said her campaign drew $100,000 in donations in the first 24 hours.

https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2021/03/11/iraq-war-vet-spur-democratic-primary-madison-cawthorn-house-seat/6953959002/

[Jilly_in_VA]

67. It's a pretty red district

except for Asheville. Kinda similar to where I live in VA, as a matter of fact. The woman my son should have married lives in Asheville and is a deep blue Democrat who detests Cawthorn but she's pretty realistic about the situation and thinks that probably only a Repug can beat him. This guy could have a chance though.

[turbinetree]

66. Lock him up.....so he can find time to read the law....

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/46505

[NewJeffCT]

71. He's love getting attention - he's also claimed he's lost "all his guns"

in a boating accident - at least twice.

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[IcyPeas]

72. looking at some of the replies in those tweets.... it's apparently some kind of a joke

that has gone right over my head. I don't get it. but I liked this person's reply:

How weird is that?
I lost all my family in a tragic gun accident but yours is way worse. Right?

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fucker says thoughts and prayers.