After being questioned about the Second Amendment’s legitimacy and students being terrified to attend class, Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Green advised a British journalist to “go back to your country.”
At a news conference on Wednesday, the outspoken Republican, 48, became physically angry with the reporter after she noted that neither the UK nor the Second Amendment “had mass shootings.”
When the journalist corrected Green, she had just moved away from the microphone and said curtly to the reporters in the audience that it was “our job to defend the Second Amendment.”
The unnamed journalist remarked, “We don’t have guns in the UK, that is true, but we don’t have mass shootings either.” And our kids don’t fear going to school.
You have mass stabbings, madam, the divisive politician retorted angrily. There are laws against all types of murder in your country.
Not like the rates here, the journalist retorted.
“Well, you can go back to your nation and worry about your no guns,” Greene shot back, dismissing the assertion.
The Georgia peach happily shared the video on her Twitter page on Wednesday night, writing: “My response is: “Go back to your own country” when British press wants to debate our God-given American gun rights.”
A bipartisan gun control package that would toughen background checks for younger gun buyers and strengthen punishments for gun traffickers was approved by the Senate on Tuesday, the day before Greene’s press conference.
The law would also ban anyone who have been convicted of domestic violence from obtaining firearms if they are not married to their victims.
Greene resolutely remarked to the British journalist: “We enjoy our [guns] here” despite the 14 Republicans joining the 48 Democrats and two independents on the bill the day before.
Both gun regulation and the Second Amendment have been contentious issues in the US for many years.
After many mass shootings, including one at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, which left 19 pupils and two teachers dead, the issue has recently gained more attention around the country.
The Gun Violence Archive, which classifies a mass shooting as one in which four or more people are hurt or killed, reports a total of 66 mass shootings since the tragedy on May 24.
Children have allegedly expressed apprehension about returning to school, and lawmakers have once again been given the challenging task of redesigning classrooms in order to safeguard the young.
The plan also allocates $750 million to additional states with violence prevention initiatives as well as 19 states with “red flag laws,” which make it simpler to temporarily seize firearms from dangerous individuals.
The recipients of the cash must have legal procedures in place for the gun owner to contest the confiscation of their weaponry.
The law would give grants to states and localities to fund initiatives to increase school security and mental health.
The agreement reached by Senate negotiators on Tuesday may pave the way for final passage by the end of the week.
The agreement, which puts the GOP’s adamant gun owners and rural voters against the Democrats’ urban-focused supporters of weapons regulations, represents an election-year break through even as Republicans resisted stricter restrictions sought by Democrats.
Nine days after settling on a general outline for the proposal and 29 years after Congress last passed significant restrictions on firearms, lawmakers unveiled the 80-page bill.
The “Senate gun bill is a catastrophic failure,” according to Greene’s later press conference assertion.
She also brashly named the Republican lawmakers who, in her opinion, betrayed the party by supporting gun regulation, including Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney.
She added that former senator and current vice president Joe Biden, 79, declared her school a “gun-free zone” and claimed to have “left American youngsters like sitting ducks [or] targets for anyone that wants to go kill them.”
She claimed that the Republicans who supported stricter gun control measures and are now his so-called “friends” are what “Republican voters do not support anymore.”
She frankly stated, “I don’t mind naming their names, because people all around our country are upset with them.”
Because if we don’t start standing up for American freedoms and rights and putting Americans first, our voters won’t want to put us in power, the Republican Party needs to reform, and it needs to happen now.
A May survey by Morning Consult/Politico found that 65% of voters have voiced support for gun control since the shooting in Uvalde. Republicans approved the proposal at a rate of 44%, Independents at 66%, and Democrats at 86% of those surveyed.