Republican congressional candidate touts AR-15s to fight 'looting hordes from Atlanta'

[Judi Lynn]

New campaign video from Paul Broun promises to give away rifle but congressional hopeful denies racial implications

Lois Beckett

@loisbeckett
Tue 7 Apr 2020 20.30 EDTLast modified on Tue 7 Apr 2020 23.23 EDT

Why do Americans need AR-15 rifles during a global pandemic? To shoot “looting hordes from Atlanta”.

That’s the campaign message from a former Republican congressman from Georgia, Paul Broun, who is now running for congress again.

Broun’s campaign is based in Gainesville, Georgia, a city about an hour outside of Atlanta, the state capital, which is majority-black.

Gainesville is in Hall County, Georgia, which is majority white, although nearly half of the residents of the city of Gainesville itself are Latino, according to census estimates.

In a new campaign video, Broun promises to give away an AR-15 rifle “to one lucky person who signs up for email updates” from his campaign website.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/07/paul-broun-ar15-gun-coronavirus-campaign-video-atlanta-looting-hordes

[Hoyt]

1. Broun is the most ignorant of white wingers. A physician who honestly believes world was

created 6000 years ago.

[The Magistrate]

2. This Is Their Dream, Ma'am

They lull themselves to sleep at night, they perk up a little during the day, with the thought of emptying clip after clip into ravening hordes of city folk driven by desperation owing to some social collapse, who come charging out into the countryside to loot and pillage and rape.

This is neither unfair imputation nor wild exaggeration. It is simple fact.

[Marcuse]

3. Their dream is to go hunting IN Atlanta. Offense is the best defense.

[CaptYossarian]

4. In this country, humans are always in season.