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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, known for her anti-LGBTQ+ rants and conspiracy theories, has reached perhaps a new low by using the Colorado Springs mass shooting to spread falsehoods about drug trafficking and to, of course, argue against gun control.
Tragically, 300 Americans die of fentanyl poisoning everyday in America and Biden says and does nothing, she tweeted Sunday. Tragically, 5 people were killed in a shooting in Colorado and Biden immediately demands a ban on assault weapons.
The solutions are this: 1. Secure the border and stop the drugs. 2. Defend our right to keep and bear arms so that people can defend themselves from killers who could care less about laws.
Link to tweet
However, she ignored the fact that most of the fentanyl sold in the U.S. is sold by citizens. A recent study by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, reported that 86.3 percent of convicted fentanyl traffickers are U.S. citizens. The study used government data.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-uses-gay-025315115.html
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)What do you want President Biden to do? Ban illegal Fentanyl? That is already being done.
Stop Tweeting and showing everyone that you continue to be a moron.
republianmushroom
(13,616 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)I don't want anyone to miss the point that she is now the most powerful person in the House Republican Caucus.