Lauren Boebert Calls Annual US Gun Deaths 'Drop In the Bucket'
Future congresswoman recorded video on the way to counter-protest anti-gun march
Republican Rep Lauren Boebert has been caught on video two years before she was elected to Congress, calling the 15,000 “gun related deaths” per year in America “a drop in the bucket” posted while driving 40 miles to counter-protest Colorado students demanding an end to school shootings.
Boebert has been one of the furthest right-wing and polarizing members of Congress since joining the body last year.
The issue of gun violence has been on the front burner for the last several weeks, as the nation has reeled from a spare of mass-murder incidents — including a racially motivated rampage in Buffalo NY and a school shooting in Uvalde Texas.
Boebert and her allies in the Republican Party have resisted legislating any gun-safety reforms, even those with broad support among the American public.
In a 2018 video posted to social media by the watchdog group PatriotTakes, Boebert is seen talking to a camera as she drives to Carbondale, Colo., to counter-protest March for Our Lives.
The protest was organized in response to the Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., that killed 17.
“I'm really interested to see if people know what they're marching for,” she said. “I guess this is supposed to be the beginning of people speaking out to take away our Second Amendment rights, and I'm not happy about it.”
The future congresswoman laments that billed as “March for Our Lives,” participants should have been protesting abortion rights.
Boebert then claims that she's seen statistics which put the annual number of abortions in the United States at about 1 million. (The truth is that the number is actually almost half the figure Boebert claimed.)
The Colorado Republican then compares US gun-related deaths to her inflated abortion figure.
“Do you know how many violent gun deaths there are in America per year? Fifteen thousand. Hmmmm. A drop in the bucket I'd say,” she said.
That 15,000 in US gun-related deaths that Boebert claims also is inaccurate.
The actual figure is about three times what she claimed, according to Pew Research.
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