Congressman Posts Christmas Photo with Guns Days after School Shooting
A mere days after the Michigan school shooting that saw four students killed, a US Congressman posted a Christmas picture of himself and his family, smiling and holding guns.
"Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo," is what US Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky wrote on Twitter, as he posted a Christmas picture of himself and his family holding an assortment of guns.
Merry Christmas! 🎄
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 4, 2021
ps. Santa, please bring ammo. 🎁 pic.twitter.com/NVawULhCNr
The Congressman posted the photo a mere days after 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley carried out the deadliest school shooting in the US this year, only the latest in a decades-long series of mass shootings at US schools. His parents were arrested on Saturday in connection with the massacre.
Massie represents a Republican-majority district. He and his family seem to be holding an M60 machine gun, AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and a Thompson submachine gun.
The shooting in Oxford, Michigan in which a teacher and six other students were wounded, was the latest in a string of incidents that have prompted debates over school safety, gun control and gun rights.