The shooter who killed six people at Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee has been identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale. But let’s look a little deeper. The Washington Post reports that Rep. Andy Ogles, who represents Nashville, can be seen in a 2021 photo holding firearms along with his family.
Nice how they put “heartbroken” in quotation marks. No, seriously, this is an actual story WaPo wrote up:
Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tenn.), who represents the Nashville district where the Covenant School is located, said Monday in a statement that he was “utterly heartbroken” by the shooting that left six people dead, including three children.
Gun-control advocates and Democrats highlighted another post from Ogles — a 2021 Christmas photo of his family posing with firearms.
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On Monday, Ogles’s critics shared the congressman’s statement about the shooting along with the Christmas photo.
“How much more bloodshed will it take?” Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Tex.) wrote in a tweet featuring Ogles’s photo. “It’s. The. Guns.”
Fred Guttenberg, who advocates for gun control after his 14-year-daughter, Jaime, was killed in the Parkland school shooting in 2018, said the tragedy “is listening to Tennessee politicians who refuse to call it a shooting but who engaged in behavior that caused this to be more likely when they glorify guns.”
So anti-gun-rights activists Shannon Watts and Fred Guttenberg retweeted the photo Monday and WaPo made a story out of it.
Seriously? This is what Washington Post “journalists” come up with while citizen journalists on Twitter track down the actual shooter.
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