Jeff Tiedrich tweet about Madison Cawthorn's gun:

[tblue37]

imagine that Madison Cawthorn was named Muhammad Cawthorn and he tried to take a gun onto an airplane. how would that have gone

Link to tweet

[Demovictory9]

1. Years ago cops were looking for missing mom and daughters. They stopped a guy that had cawthorn's l

The guy had a severed head in his backpack. Wasnt searched or anything. Was let.to go on his merrry.way

A few pointed out that the stop wpuld have gone differently if he looked diff..not just by race but if he wasnt handsom


Lookism!!

[ShazzieB]

2. I have one thing say about Madison Cacathorn and his gun fetish.

[hadEnuf]

3. The a$$hole on wheels strikes again!

[struggle4progress]

4. "I wanted to attend a coke-snort orgy without seeming out of place and only needed

the gun so I could steal the stewardess's bra"

[Efilroft Sul]

5. Fucker would've been Nordberged.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

6. Remember that he's also been stopped by NC law enforcement twice

on their highways. Once for speeding and he was discovered to not have a legally-valid DL.

In either of these situations, had he been a man of color, he'd have been arrested and had his car impounded.

I am so sick of this sniveling, smirking little sh*t.

I doubt he'll get re-elected. He's an embarrassment.

[patphil]

7. Would probably have gotten a knee on his neck for 3 minutes.

[dalton99a]

8. No shit.

[RicROC]

9. I hope they made him remove his shoes.

also strip searched his wheelchair.

[usaf-vet]

13. Actually, it concerns me that the TSA will be wanting to hyper search EVERY wheelchair.

We have a family member in a wheelchair. And traveling is hard enough without that.

Remember one guy with a bomb in his shoe has led to every flying passenger having to remove their shoes.

And if Muhammad Cawthorn had tried to board a plane with a gun. One of two things would have happened.

One there would be a Cawthorn on the permanent NO FLY LIST or two a Muhammad would be in federal custody under arrest.

[3Hotdogs]

10. They should at least, "No fly" is ass.

[Mozeltov Cocktail]

11. You have to wonder, how many times has he successfully boarded a plane with a gun.

I sincerely doubt that he got caught the only two times he tried... this is how he rolls (see what I did there... I'll close the door as I leave)

[OldBaldy1701E]

12. Oh, nothing is a surprise from that part of the state.

If you knew the sociopolitical climate there, you would understand why he was elected.

Quick story. When my friend bought his place up in the mountains outside of Asheville, we held a birthday party for him that was of decent size. A few locals who had become acquaintances were invited and they 'showed their ass'. So, they were asked to not come back. The next year we had the birthday party, those idiots decided to go to the police and 'turn us in' for a variety of complaints. (Nowadays, this is called 'swatting'.) The Saturday of the party, the powers that be up there sent both county deputies, both cops from the closest town, and the local NCHP officer to set up a roadblock on the road to my friend's house. They issued five tickets and made nine arrests for DUI and drug possession that day. ALL LOCALS. Not one person attending the party was arrested or even ticketed. After hearing about the manpower that had been congregating on that rural road all day, I told my friend that it was a crying shame that we did not know this was going to happen in advance. We could have gotten a group together with a big truck and cleaned out that nearby town. They had no police there to do anything. Suffice to say, a few years later, one of our friends was elected to the county commissioners and she was able to see a report on that day. It basically said that they did all that work and wasted all that manpower because one of those locals that had been there that first party was the cousin of one of the deputies for the county and 'turned us in'. That same person has been arrested multiple times for meth and other drugs as well as assault and several DUIs. But, they took her word because we were 'new'.

This is how rabidly conservative that area is. The 'good ole boy' network is in full force there. Cawthorn is from the privileged ranks of that area. They think they can do whatever they want because Gawd says they are the chosen and tradition says they are the ones with the power. Laws apply to the peons, not to the elite. That such a person was elected by that area is not a surprise. That the rest of the House has not removed him from office (and that North Carolina has not recalled and removed him as well) is, and that is a source of much concern for a native Tarheel like myself. We used to be more... sensible.

[IronLionZion]

14. Congresspeople keep taking him to drug fueled orgies

the poor guy just wants to defend himself

[True Dough]

15. This is another one for the

"no such thing as white privilege" crowd. They're still in denial.