A Republican tried to make capital out of the Denmark shootings and was schooled into next year
To Florida, where Republican congressional hopeful Lavern Spicer thought she’d use the horrific shootings in Denmark where three people were killed in a Copehagen shopping centre to make a point about gun control in the good ol’ US of A.
And if Spicer – who failed to get into Congress in 2020 but will be trying again in 2024 – was hoping to make political capital out of it, it didn’t quite end up that way.
Shooting in Copenhagen Denmark where guns are BANNED?
Oooooh child I can’t wait for the Left to explain how that happened!
— Lavern Spicer🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@lavern_spicer) July 3, 2022
Because it blew up in her face.
1.
A one off shooting in Denmark as supposed to almost everyday in America?
— Joe Ellis (@JoeMunroEllis) July 3, 2022
2.
Quite tastefull to politicize this right away. But sure I'll bite.
No one expects that banning guns will prevent shootings with 100% certainty. But I would like you to look at the frequenzy that they happen and concentrate on that.— kurjalanpiirakka (@yebayee) July 3, 2022
3.
It's huge news in Denmark.
In the US it would be a Wednesday.— Fox-itis (@Don98914738) July 3, 2022
4.
First shooting since 2015 but agendas/propaganda must run 🤷🏽♂️
— 🇬🇭 Elvis (@e1visannan) July 3, 2022
5.
Not a single school shooting in Denmark though 🙏
— The Stoic Yoda (@stoicyoda) July 3, 2022
6.
It’s a hunting rifle, moron. They are licensed. What a putrid grub you are if this is your first thought.
— Shane Anderson (@Globalgallop) July 3, 2022
7.
Two in a century.
Stop taking glee over suffering.
— 🇺🇦TomatoSoup🇪🇺🇬🇧 (@SoupTomatoSoup) July 3, 2022
8.
First time in 7 years, when was the last school shooting in the us? Friday?
— keewa (@keewa) July 3, 2022
9.
Denmark needs to change the rules they have in place so the shooter would have had acces to an AR-15 instead of a hunting rifle 😂
— Oli (@Olicarry) July 3, 2022
10.
You seem almost happy this tragedy has happened. When was the last shooting in America compared to Denmark?
— Darren (@dizsaidwhat) July 3, 2022
But most of all, this.
The murder rate in Denmark is 277 times less than the US, showing that while you can’t prevent every murder, you can prevent most with effective gun control laws. pic.twitter.com/8ruhTvDXPB
— John Lubbock (@jwsal) July 3, 2022
Spicer later tweeted this.
My thoughts and prayers go out to the victims.
I truly hate gun violence and I hate the evil people who wish to disarm the general public and keep them unsafe.
— Lavern Spicer🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@lavern_spicer) July 3, 2022
And the cherry on the cake was surely this.
Seeing a lot of Americans saying how much better they think Denmark is than here.
Who’s stopping you? pic.twitter.com/goi3u0jRW8
— Lavern Spicer🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@lavern_spicer) July 3, 2022
And just in case the name Lavern Spicer sounded familiar, it might be because you’re thinking of when she tweeted this Covid anagram that got entirely the responses it deserved.
FUN FACT: If you rearrange the letters of Delta and Omicron, you get MEDIA CONTROL 🤷🏾♀️
— Lavern Spicer🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@lavern_spicer) December 2, 2021
No more questions, your honour.
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