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Mon Nov 21, 2022, 12:44 PM Nov 2022

Gun-Glorifying Lauren Boebert Can Shove Her Prayers For Shooting Victims: Ocasio-Cortez

Boebert, a gun-promoting extremist known for anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, said victims of a mass shooting in her state "are in my prayers."

Source: Huff Post

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday lashed gun-loving Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) for offering “prayers” for the victims of a mass shooting at the Club Q gay bar in Colorado Springs.

A man armed with a rifle killed five people and injured 25 before patrons subdued him. Police haven’t disclosed a motive.

Boebert, an extremist who glorifies guns and has repeatedly attacked members of the LGBTQ community as pedophiles or “groomers” — can’t “thoughts and prayers” her way out of the mass shooting in her home state, Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a tweet responding to Boebert’s superficial acknowledgment of the “absolutely awful” news.

“You have played a major role in elevating anti-LGBT+ hate rhetoric and anti-trans lies while spending your time in Congress blocking even the most common sense gun safety laws,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.

Read more at....[link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ocasio-cortez-guns-lauren-boebert-mass-shootings_n_637afc34e4b062ba9ec90f1d|

Yeah right, Lauren! Tweeting photos of you and your kids at the Christmas tree with human killing machines sends the RIGHT message...
Bless your Jesus lovin' heart..

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