Exercising the Right
Massie Christmas Photo Causes Controversy
Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) caused quite a controversy when he tweeted out a Christmas photo of his family with all of them holding firearms and the comment “Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo!” Massie is well-known as a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment and, as explained by The Blaze on December 5, “has introduced into the U.S. House numerous Second Amendment-related bills in his nearly-one decade tenure as a lawmaker. Massie has introduced a bill to restore Second Amendment rights in Washington, D.C., multiple bills to repeal the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act, a bill that would honor concealed carry reciprocity in Washington, D.C., and most recently a bill that would permit all voting-age Americans to purchase handguns.”
Massie’s gun-toting family photo was obviously done tongue-in-cheek, but leftists reacted with the same exaggerated outrage we’ve all grown to expect from them. Twitter leftists denounced the photo as evidence of everything they feel is wrong with America, including racism and so-called domestic terrorism. The comments were crude and obscene and obvious overreactions, but Massie wisely avoided responding to the Twitter mob. In the end, though, he mailed out a Christmas card to his constituents that didn’t feature the family firearms.
Retaliatory Lawmaking
California Governor Gavin Newsom, who just recently avoided a recall election, issued a statement on December 11 that his administration will copy a Texas law aimed at preventing abortion but apply it to guns in the Golden State. The controversial measure in Texas effectively bans all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy by making abortion providers subject to private lawsuits, which could bankrupt them. As intended by its drafters, the Texas law went before the Supreme Court for review and was upheld as constitutional, and this sent leftists into a raging fury. Newsom decried both the Supreme Court ruling and the Texas law but, at the same time, announced he was now going to copy the law and modify it to implement gun control that has previously been struck down in federal court.
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