Facing backlash, Republican congressman quits race after supporting U.S. gun control

[iemanja]

(Reuters) - A Republican congressman who came out in support of gun control after a mass shooting in his area dropped out of the race for his re-election on Friday upon coming under withering criticism from Republicans who saw his policy shift as a betrayal.

Chris Jacobs, a first-term U.S. representative from suburban Buffalo, New York, said he decided to withdraw to avoid "an incredibly divisive election" for the Republican Party.

Jacobs embraced a federal ban on assault weapons and other gun control measures a week ago in the wake of two massacres. Authorities say a white gunman killed 10 Black people inside a supermarket on May 14 in a racially motivated attack, and a gunman killed 19 schoolchildren and two teachers in another attack in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24. . .


The backlash was immediate. Gun rights groups posted his office and cellphone numbers on the internet and local party leaders began pulling their support, the New York Times reported.

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[NCLefty]

1. So they... canceled him, just like that? 🤔

The backlash was immediate. Gun rights groups posted his office and cellphone numbers on the internet and local party leaders began pulling their support, the New York Times reported.

They doxxed him too? Oh my.

[iemanja]

3. Sheds some light on why Republicans are so beholden

to gun interests.

[bullwinkle428]

2. My mom lives in this district. Hopefully, the Republicans will nominate a

full-metal whack-a-doodle, and make the distinction clear with the Democratic candidate. This is nowhere near the kind of district that Perjury Taylor Greene represents.