AR-15s have gotten a bad rap lately due to their popularity among mass shooters, including the shooter in the recent Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas where a gunman killed 19 children and two adults.
So Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is standing up for the semi-automatic weapon’s honor: she claims that Jesus only died because he didn’t have enough of them, effectively victim-blaming the Messiah.
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“The little Twitter trolls, they like to say, ‘Ah Jesus didn’t need an AR-15! How many AR-15s do you think Jesus woulda had?'” Boebert said at the Charis Christian Center in Colorado Springs this past Saturday during their Family Camp Meeting event.
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“Well, he didn’t have enough to keep his government from killing him, so…” she joked. The crowd laughed.
Lauren Boebert claims Jesus “didn’t have enough [AR-15s] to keep his government from killing him.” pic.twitter.com/dTC9O7ZFDz
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Boebert owns a gun-themed restaurant called Shooters where the servers pack heat.
She rose to some national attention on the right in 2019 by confronting then-Democratic presidential primary candidate Beto O’Rourke about his proposed buy-back program for AR-15s. She has made gun ownership a central issue for her political campaigns.
So it was no surprise that she brought up guns and specifically AR-15s multiple times in her speech at the Christian event.
Then she prayed for the death of President Joe Biden.
“I do want you to know I pray for our president,” Boebert said. “Psalm 109:8 says, ‘May his days be few and another take his office.'”
The crowd laughed again.
Lauren Boebert’s prayer for President Joe Biden: “May his days be few.” pic.twitter.com/1ft1LoYqnK
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) June 11, 2022
