U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert unleashed her latest controversy on social media on Thursday when she criticized a survivor who shot at the school and became the gun control activist.
The first-year Republican from Silt, known for attention-grabbing social media messages, is accused on Twitter of being a threat to the safety of the US Capitol by David Hogg, who survived the 2018 shooting in Parkland, Florida, in which 17 people are dead.
“David, please,” Boebert replied in a quote tweet. ‘We all saw how tough you were when you were interviewed face to face. Rest your keyboard, child. ”
David, please. We all saw how hard you were when you were interviewed face to face.
Rest your keyboard, child. https://t.co/DDnpmkyfIS
– Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) 28 January 2021
The congresswoman apparently referred to a video posted earlier this week in which current U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, invented Hogg about gun control in the streets of Washington, DC in 2019. Greene is a conspiracy theorist who believe believe the Parkland shooting and the 2017 Las Vegas shooting were false.
Boebert’s criticism of Hogg, who has become a prominent advocate for gun control since the Parkland shooting, drew criticism from the Colorado Democrats.
“In my experience, those who have not yet experienced the trauma of mass shooting speak the most difficult,” tweeted U.S. President Jason Crow, an Aurora Democrat and gun control advocate, who regularly criticizes Boebert online and on air. “But the harsh conversations and bullying of survivors are the ultimate sign of weakness.”