Fight! Who ya got?!
In this corner: war hero Dan Crenshaw.
In the other: hero in the war against cow farts, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
How it started: Dan tweeted about a woman in Houston who defended herself in a robbery. Her weapon of choice? That black or silver tubal thing, a gun.
He insisted that “situations like this story are why we protect the 2nd Amendment.”
Dan added that universal background checks would prohibit him from loaning his friends a gun when they’re traveling alone.
Check it out:
Situations like this story are why we protect the 2nd Amendment.
Side note: With universal background checks, I wouldn’t be able to let my friends borrow my handgun when they travel alone like this. We would make felons out of people just for defending themselves. https://t.co/x60mdd1WW1
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) September 4, 2019
AOC doesn’t understand why anyone would loan a gun. And it must mean their friends can’t pass a background check:
You are a member of Congress. Why are you “lending” guns to people unsupervised who can’t pass a basic background check?
The people you’re giving a gun to have likely abused their spouse or have a violent criminal record, & you may not know it.
Why on earth would you do that? https://t.co/TQFjcLQebO
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 4, 2019
As many are at the words of the frequent flyer who wants to ban air travel, Dan was dumbfounded:
Just so I’m clear: you think my friends are domestic abusers/criminals? Seriously that’s your argument? That they can’t pass a background check?
Wrong. People lend guns to friends, esp if they don’t own a gun, for self-defense and hunting purposes.
This is America outside NYC. https://t.co/wkWPhfi0JB
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) September 4, 2019
AOC tried to teach some of Dan’s defenders about the world:
This idea of “I know the guy, there’s no way he beats his wife” as the way we keep guns out of the hands of abusers is ridiculous.
Any person who has been abused, assaulted, etc knows that abusers often present as “upstanding.”
There’s no way you’d know. That’s why it’s common. https://t.co/uuq17HT3Of
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 4, 2019
And there was this:
You said w/ universal background checks, you wouldn’t be able to “lend” guns to friends.
If a background check would be a problem, then you shouldn’t “lend” a gun.
And btw, NY is one of the safest states in the country when it comes to guns, incl rural areas.
Try to keep up. https://t.co/4RV4DNg7FM
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 4, 2019
New York is one of the safest states when it comes to guns?
What she doesn’t know is that “guns” do not make a place unsafe. Where are you safer — with a friend in a room filled with guns, or with a murderer in a room with none?
As for “America outside NYC,” I’d guess Alexandria could benefit from taking a few years off and traveling around America, staying with people in the heartland. Maybe she’d get a sense of the country she intends to serve.
She certainly hasn’t seen enough. Until recently, the congressional freshman — who believes Republicans created the Jewish/Muslim conflict — had never laid eyes on a garbage disposal.
And if you think that’s bad: The twentysomething who’s paid $174,000 a year to make laws that others have to follow…has never even seen American prosperity.
“People our age have never experienced American prosperity in our adult lives" might have been the most ridiculous thing ever written on Twitter.
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) March 22, 2019
-ALEX
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