Marjorie Taylor Greene
Marjorie Taylor Greene (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) doubled down on her defense of relaxed gun control laws, claiming “strict gun laws actually create murder.”

Greene opened her remarks by pointing to multiple shootings in Chicago on Memorial Day weekend that left 11 people dead and over 50 injured from gunshot wounds. She claimed Democrats failed to talk about or report those particular shootings.

“To carry a gun in Chicago you need a firearm owner ID and a concealed carry license, which are difficult to get,” Greene said. “Most gun thefts occur in Southern states — Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina.”

Greene was joined by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and other members of Congress in leading a hearing at the Okaloosa County administrative complex in Florida on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’s “weaponization and heightened targeting of Federal Firearms Licenses.”

The ATF is being weaponized “as a result of President Joe Biden’s Zero Tolerance Policy,” according to a press release from Gaetz. …

Both Greene and Gaetz have drafted legislation in the past aimed at abolishing the ATF over accused violations of the Second Amendment, and Gaetz introduced the “Abolish the ATF Act” in the House in January.

—  Eden Villalovas in Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Strict Gun Laws ‘Create Murder’

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  1. Agreed in concept, although I would rephrase this as, “Strict gun laws make violent crime, including murder, more likely.”

    • RE: “Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) doubled down on her defense of relaxed gun control laws, claiming “strict gun laws actually create murder.”

      Create Murder is Correct…After all History does Confirm Gun Control is Rooted in Racism and Genocide.

    • She did make one statement I agree with:

      “Greene said. “Most gun thefts occur in Southern states — Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina.”

      At least she does agree that the lax gun laws, including lack of safe storage laws, leads to the red states being the major suppliers of weapons to violent criminals in the United States.

      Her statement would also lead one to conclude those red states have a higher majority of criminals on the streets stealing guns.

      • did she agree to that? i didn’t hear her say anything like it. have you just drawn conclusions here because something led ~you~ to believe something?

        • She stated a fact:

          “Greene said. “Most gun thefts occur in Southern states — Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina.”

          She made the statement that most gun thefts occurred in Southern states.
          Obviously the southern states are the major supplier of stolen guns to the criminal element.

          She also spoke of the stricter gun laws in Chicago and democrat cities so it’s easy to see she believes the southern states social systems are conducive to supplying more stolen guns to violent criminals.

          Which is exactly the plan of the conservative leaders in the red states, in order to justify even more draconian repression against the citizens of their particular state.

          And as MTG has pointed out, any citizen who questions the authority of the political leaders is subject to attack by the Jewish space lasers.

          This whole conspiracy theory grift is great, next step, Italian satellites printing votes on bamboo paper.

        • Wow, that was really easy, y’all took the bait…

          I felt sure going straight to the Jewish space lasers, Italian satellites and bamboo paper would clue the smarter ones in, I guess I overestimated y’all.

          Frankly, I don’t think there’s anything MTG would say that a person could rely on, but falling in line behind her and Trump is SOP for the conservative folks.

      • “At least she does agree that the lax gun laws, including lack of safe storage laws, leads to the red states being the major suppliers of weapons to violent criminals in the United States.”

        liar

        no where did she agree that the firearms thefts were due to any ‘lax gun’ laws.

        firearm thefts are due to crime. those states have their laws which also make it a crime to steal a firearm.

        and once again you display your ignorance…there is no state with a strict gun law where a ‘safe storage law’ prevents theft because ‘safe storage laws’ they prescribed are only to a level to keep the law abiding gun owner from getting to the gun quickly. ‘safe storage’ they prescribed in their laws is not the same as ‘secure storage’.

        • “firearm thefts are due to crime. those states have their laws”

          So you do agree with her that those red states listed I have more crime, interesting.

        • guess he thinks it’s appropriate to go into your neighbors house and tell them how to run their household?….if the laws are so “lax”…why isn’t the homicide rate soaring there?….

      • ahh Miner.. so the person whose property is stolen, they are not the victim but the criminal in your mind. just like merry ol’ england.

        of course, we know that police firearms are also stolen. And then used to commit crime. but let’s blame citizens for the criminal deeds of others. it’s way easier than actually trying to do something useful.

      • MINOR Miner49er, “Laxed gun laws?” What “laxed gun laws”? Would you care to “expound” on this?

        • Walt, what are you talking about, I never used the word ”laxed”.

          Might want to check on that macular degeneration, it happens in old folks.

          Or it might be that Italian satellite, you might want to double up on the layers of aluminum foil in your ball cap.

        • MINOR Miner49er, Either you are a liar of very forgetful. You own words: “At least she does agree that the lax gun laws, including lack of safe storage laws, leads to the red states being the major suppliers of weapons to violent criminals in the United States.”
          You might want to go see a doctor about your Alzheimer’s.

    • “strict gun laws” are largely irrelevant when the people who are the greatest threat choose to ignore them….

  2. Sometimes it seems she gets it and at other times not so much. Of the two, my vote would go to Boebert.

    • I assume the vote is for being the better politician because what else could we be voting on?

    • “Sometimes it seems she gets it and at other times not so much.”

      She’s bat-shit crazy and it flips the Leftist Scum ™ right the fuck out. Kinda like a girl fun to spend a night or a day with, but *not* to have to live with, full-time, because she will bankrupt your ass in short order… 🙁

  3. They all know this MTG, they’re just playin to the uninformed and the outright stupid among us!!

  4. When you deprive the law abiding of the means of self defense then criminals and government employees, but I repeat myself, have no fear of abusing them.

  5. Taylor ignores the fact that the most people killed because of a lack of red flag laws and strict gun laws are women who are murdered by their husbands and boyfriends.

    Taylor ignores the fact that Chicago’s gun laws are rendered useless by Hillbilly States that ship in via the “Iron Pipeline” thousands of unvetted second hand guns.

    • dacian once again saying those urban folk cannot be trusted not to kill each other.
      I wonder, is your white hood dry-clean only?

      • He’s a fascist. He naturally is a racist and proves it every time he makes these back handed remarks against minorities.

        “They’re prone to violence and murder so we must restrict their rights.” dacian.

      • Yeah “domestic violence” is the latest euphemism for gang related homicide for Albany. We will see if that takes off and gets applied elsewhere. Groups of people who are associated with each other and commit crimes together was just to clunky and made everyone think gang related to begin with.

    • Taylor ignores the fact that the most people killed because because their killers are mentally ill like you dacian.

    • Hey idiot – criminals aren’t subject to your silly red flag laws, because they don’t purchase their guns, they don’t register their guns, they don’t observe any laws associated with guns. But, you know all of that, amirite, idiot?

    • dacian, the DUNDERHEAD! What? Red Flag Laws are a violation of everyone’s Constitutional RIGHTS! The fact is that most Red Flag Laws are composed of unsubstantiated allegations made often by people with a grudge. The “allegations” are poorly investigated and often are pure unadulterated FICTION. Not to mention the Red Flag Laws deny a person of his fourth, fifth and sixth Amendments to the Constitution. Due process? Have you ever heard of it? Or is due process only for Hunter Biden (slowalked due process).

    • Tell that to the lady in California whose ex-boyfriend red flagged her. After the police summarily disarmed her, he killed her. Guess those red flag laws don’t work so well for the criminals.

  6. Huh what a concept, a reporter doing a story with no lib editorial added. Feels like fresh air. MTG scares me. She was entertaining me tho, heckling FJB at the SOTU “address” how many other countries can you yell LIAR! at the supreme leader? People need to heckle FJB everywhere he speaks. Like that guy that aksed him, “how much do you pay?” (in taxes) ‘merica, fuck yea!

    • Remember the 2 or 3 times he did a rally? In a parking lot somewhere, and maybe a dozen folks showed up in their cars and honked their horns instead of clapping. Then some hecklers began to show up and toot clown horns at him. That was hilarious, even though we knew the fix was in place.

      • Well.its not going to be so funny when our President Biden gets re-elected, then the purge will begin and all you hecklers and naysayers are going to be sorry.
        President Biden is the greatest president America has or ever will have.
        56 years of dedicated service.
        Look how far he has brought America, we now are one of the richest third world countries on the planet.

        • 56 years of being a moron…even some in his own party, including his mentor, tend to concur….

  7. Speaking of Chiraq a wondrous thing occured. A black women was being attacked by a black miscreant & she yelled for her 14 year old son to get her gat in her car and SHOOT the guy beating her. So the kid DID. Killed him. Both arrested but shortly after charges dropped. Mom had a FOID & was a legal gat owner. All caught on camera. I guess you CAN carry yer “legal”gat in yer motor vehicle🙄🙃

    • kind of sketchy that after being blasted the guy vacated only to be pursued and receive more. and how they demonized mom saying she called for the boy to execute a cheerleading female patron, of which there is no evidence in the video i’ve seen.

      • EVERYTHING in Chiraq is “sketchy”. Methinks the optics were overwhelmingly bad for the “beater”…

    • “…she yelled for her 14 year old son to get her gat in her car and SHOOT the guy beating her. So the kid DID. Killed him.”

      Got a link? I’d *love* to see that video… 🙂

    • what people in places like Chicago need are more mirrors…if they want to truly confront the source of their gun violence….

    • It is good to see that one of the violent foot soldiers leading the attack on the LGBTQ community will be sent to prison.

      “COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The 22-year-old accused of carrying out the deadly mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs in November ran a neo-Nazi website and used gay and racial slurs while gaming online, a police detective testified Wednesday.

      Anderson Lee Aldrich also posted an image of a rifle scope trained on a gay pride parade and used a bigoted slur when referring to someone who was gay, Detective Rebecca Joines said.”

        • Only once the rev0lution is over and antifa’s rainbow coalition will find they’ve outlived their usefulness.

          There will be purges or absorptions until only the red block and black block are left.

          Pass the beer and popcorn.

      • I posted about that earlier in another article comments. But you didn’t use context and posted a false comment with this …

        “is good to see that one of the violent foot soldiers leading the attack on the LGBTQ community will be sent to prison.”

        so let’s apply some context to it and write a true statement…

        A violent LGBTQ person who attacked those at the LGBTQ Club Q, will be sent to prison.

        he wasn’t a ‘foot soldier’ for anyone or leading anything. He identifies as ‘non-binary’.

        Miner49er, take your lies and deceptive slants and ignorance some place else.

        • also Miner49er, learn what ‘research is.. had you known that you would have discovered he identifies as ‘non-binary’

        • Foot in mouth disease, you’d think he would eventually get tired of the taste of his socks…

        • hawkeye,

          Nah, MajorLiar never met a Leftist/fascist lie he didn’t fall in love with. The bigger the lie, the more Leftist/fascists like MajorLiar like it. He is daily becoming more unhinged – probably because, like ALL the loony Leftists, they see their precious narrative collapsing all around them.

          MajorLiar is a living, breathing example of that old meme that we used (although we used it as a joke) when I was in college – “I have abandoned my search for truth, and am now looking for a good fantasy.” MajorLiar is intent on his fantasy of an actual, functional Leftist/fascist/Marxist/Dimocrat/Big Government (ah, but I repeat myself) coalition ruling the world, and telling all us peasants how to live. The amusing part is that MajorLiar couldn’t run a lemonade stand, has probably COMPLETELY hosed up his own pathetic life, and . . . still wants to control “us”, “for our own good”.

          Not the sharpest tool in the shed.

        • “He identifies as ‘non-binary’.“

          Yes, that is the claim made by the killer’s attorneys.
          It is interesting that you accept their word as fact.

          Here’s some other information regarding the shooter, perhaps you missed this data in your ‘research’.

          “A friend of Club Q assailant Anderson Lee Aldrich, who allegedly killed five people and injured at least 19 others when they opened fire on an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs last month, claims that Aldrich expressed hatred towards the LGBTQ community and suggested that Aldrich may be “trolling” the LGBTQ community by claiming to be nonbinary.

          Speaking with NBC News, Xavier Kraus, who says he lived in the apartment next door to Aldrich and Aldrich’s mother from August 2021 to September 2022, says he believes that Aldrich’s claim of being nonbinary — which Aldrich’s lawyers have repeated in court — is “a total troll on the community, and a total troll on the system.”

          According to Kraus, Aldrich never used they/them pronouns with him, or even mentioned being nonbinary, despite the fact that they had been close friends until just a few months ago, when they had a falling out. Aldrich, Kraus says, frequently made racist and homophobic statements, saying they “hate faggots,” but he chose not to confront them because Aldrich was a “very angry person” who owned guns.”

          No matter how he identified, he still was a Nazi who hated LGBTQ folks and executed a plan of mass murder upon their community.

          “Feb. 22, 2023, 5:23 PM EST
          By Minyvonne Burke and The Associated Press
          The suspect accused of killing five people in a mass shooting last year at a Colorado LGBTQ club ran a neo-Nazi website and used gay and racial slurs while gaming online, a police detective testified Wednesday.

          The suspect, Anderson Lee Aldrich, also posted a rifle scope on a gay pride parade and used a slur when referring to someone who was gay, Detective Rebecca Joines of the Colorado Springs Police Department testified on the first day of a three-day hearing to determine if the evidence is strong enough to proceed with hate crime charges against Aldrich.“

      • Problem with your comments are the shooter was a member of the Alphabet people. His own tribe.

      • MajorLiar,

        You mean, a footsoldier of the the LGBTQXYZ+++++ mafia??? ‘Cause your shooter “identified as non-binary”, donchaknow. Oh, that’s right, you can ignore ANY reality to suit your deranged narrative.

        I would ask you if you are embarrassed at your idiocy and ignorance, but I have long since concluded you are incapable of embarrassment. Sucks to be you, dude.

        • ‘‘Cause your shooter “identified as non-binary”, donchaknow“

          That is the claim made by his attorneys at trial, in an attempt to somehow mitigate his guilt.

          I find it interesting that you take the word of the killer’s attorneys as fact.

        • “That is the claim made by his attorneys at trial, in an attempt to somehow mitigate his guilt.

          I find it interesting that you take the word of the killer’s attorneys as fact.”

          the shooter had previously publicly already self-declared to be non-binary.

          once again Miner49er… learn what ‘research’ is.

    • That’s all wonderful and makes for good P.R. but it doesn’t do any of the shootees a bit of good. So some judge and publicity hound DA get creds for being tough on crime. I don’t see any mention of priors. Are we to assume this jerk went big time his first time out of the chute? I further wonder what the sentence would have been had the victims all been members of a conservative Christian Church?

  10. quite a bit goes on that should be bullhorned from the rooftops like the call to prayer sound reinforcement in istanbul (not constantinople), but instead it’s snuffed out on utoob, fading to obscurity. (hat tip, deh bra).
    it’s a shame she didn’t mention how bigoted it is. (that’s deliberate obfuscation).

  12. It is ironic that when Republicans know they do not have a chance in hell of getting any legislation passed through congress and/or signed by a current sitting president they have all these great bills they come up with that they know the reat of us actually want to see passed and implemented. But when they had control of both chambers of Congress and Trump as president they suddenly couldn’t be bothered with doing a damned thing for two years. Uni-party anyone? There is not a political party more useless and worthless than the Republicans.

  13. Gun-related deaths in metro Phoenix continued to see an uptick in 2022, according to the Maricopa County Medical Examiner annual report released this month.

    There were 863 deaths via gunshot wound last year, up 12% from last year (769 deaths) and 34% five years ago (644), according to the eighth annual report.

    Of those fatalities, 361 were homicides, the highest total in the state’s most populous county since tracking began in 1991.

    The firearm-caused homicide rate was 7.9 per 100,000 people, a 19% increase from the previous year and more than double the lowest rate (3.8 per 100,000 people) in the past decade, which happened in 2014.

    Suicides were the largest total of gun-related deaths in 2022. There were 487 deaths, far outpacing totals for other manners of suicide.

    • “Suicides were the largest total of gun-related deaths in 2022. There were 487 deaths, far outpacing totals for other manners of suicide“

      Interesting, one way to view that statistic would be to conclude that gun owners are committing suicide at a rate “far outpacing” other manners of suicide.

      Fascinating.

    • “Suicides were the largest total of gun-related deaths in 2022. There were 487 deaths, far outpacing totals for other manners of suicide.”

      false, for both of you.

      In the 12 months ending in December 2021 to the 12 months ending in December 2022, there were ~105,400 drug overdose suicides (which was a ~2% decrease from the previous 12 month period). Its been around ~100,000 (sometimes +/- ~40,000 annually) for a long time.

      ~12 million people in the U.S. contemplate suicide annually, ~10 million contemplate using drugs or hanging even though they might be able to procure a gun some way or another.

      ~3 million annually actually plan their suicides, more than ~2.5 million plan to use drug overdose because its painless and they just fall asleep but also leaves a little bit of time when they might be found and saved.

      ~2 million people annually actually go through with attempting their suicides by uses of things other than guns even if a gun was available to them.

      ~400,000 suicide attempts (without firearms) annually are successful to cause death but attributed to other causes of death for the body function that ceased operating. This is because of the fine line distinction between attempt and intent – because it can’t be discerned that it was not an attempt without the intent to actually die which is a legal distinction in law in most areas as to the medical determination of suicide so they cant rule it suicide unless there was an intent to die by their own hand, and its common in suicide attempts for attention hoping they will be found and saved but they did not really have intent to die but rather did it for the hoped attention. If they can’t show that intent, the cause of death is listed as the body function that failed and not suicide. For example, the death might be categorized as due to heart failure instead of suicide because this distinction between attempt and intent can not be discerned. So these are in stats under other categories of death, for example, heart failure even though in the understanding of suicide as a category they were suicide deaths.

      Comparatively, gun deaths under suicide like conditions are always listed as ‘suicide’ because its automatically assumed the intent was there and the person actually pulled the trigger. These are reported as gun-suicide ‘immediately’ (or almost immediately) even though an investigation may not have been completed and they go into gun-suicide stats very quickly. However, about ~60% of those deaths ruled gun suicides are later to be found to have been without intent and rather accidents or staged-to-look-like-suicide-murders. Even though later found not to have actually been an intent gun-suicide they are never removed from gun-suicide stats and this falsely inflates the gun-suicide stats.

      • The stats, which are true, age for the Phoenix Metro area i the state with the most gun freedom.

  15. WHERE’S THE PROOF , SHOW THE DATA , OR SHE JUST TALKING FAKE CRAP AGAIN , AGAIN .
    SHE SEEMS TO BE OR HAVE HER HEAD SOOO FAR UP tRUMPS ACE~IE~HOLE CAN’T THINK OR FUNCTION . NAW SHE ALWAY HAS BEEN USLESS . OVER PAYED SB PERSON IN CONGRESS .
    Oooo LOOK OUT GEEN ALIENS SHOOTING GEEN LAZERS , Oooo PUT IT WHERE THA SUN DOESN’T SHINE . MTG.

    • I suggest you take that you take your head out of your Leftist posterior. Speaking of useless, that would be Sleepy Joe and his Hoe.

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