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By: EFE
Friday, September 20
US congressman publishes Christmas photo armed after school shooting
The Christmas photo published this weekend by an American congressman accompanied by heavily armed relatives and asking for ammunition to Santa Claus just days after another massacre at an institute generated controversy in the country.
Thomas Massie, a Republican legislator for Kentucky, published a snapshot on the social network Twitter in which he He sees him smiling and armed next to what seems to be familiar, also with weapons, next to a Christmas tree.
“Merry Christmas! Postscript, Santa please bring ammunition “, said the congressman.
Massie’s message became a trend on social networks, especially since last week, the country experienced a new tragedy , when a student of 15 years he killed four companions and wounded another seven in a shooting at an Oxford (Michigan) institute.
Another legislator for the same state, Democrat John Yarmuth, quickly came up against his colleague’s comment and remarked that “not everyone in Kentucky is an insensitive jerk.”
For his part, Manuel Oliver, father of one of the 17 killed in another shooting at a Florida school in 2018, charged hard at Massie.
“(Massie’s tweet) is a big part of the problem. I do not know if they were trying to be ironic, funny, or what but it is in the worst taste (…) It is something that should teach us who we should elect (for public office) and who we should not, “said Oliver in an interview on CNN. .
The Michigan school tragedy has reignited the debate about the need for gun access controls in the US .
The parents of the alleged perpetrator of the Oxford shooting have been charged with manslaughter after it became known that they had bought the weapon used by their son in the massacre.
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