At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence Thursday, Republican Rep. Ken Buck (Colo.) dismissed a proposal to regulate AR-style rifles, the weapon of choice for mass shooters, as “small-minded.”Why? “In rural Colorado, an AR-15 is a gun of choice for killing raccoons before they get to our chickens,” Buck added. Buck’s office didn’t respond to a request for comment regarding how many chickens the life of one child is worth. Astute readers will recall that Buck has an AR-15 mounted on the wall of his Capitol Hill office. We have to protect the chickens from the raccoons.

Source: Huffington Post June 04, 2022 03:07 UTC