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’
