Filmmaker Michael Moore said the Boulder shooting suspect is proof that anyone can “truly assimilate” in America.
“The life of Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa shows that people can come from all over the world and truly assimilate into our beloved American culture,” Moore tweeted with a photograph of the Statue of Liberty on Tuesday.
The life of Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa shows that people can come from all over the world and truly assimilate into our beloved American culture. pic.twitter.com/snDMnGUG0i
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) March 24, 2021
Alissa was born in Syria in 1999, court records and his apparent Facebook page show. He came to the United States in the early 2000s and was a resident of Arvada, Colorado.
The shooting left 10 people dead in a grocery store, including a police officer. Alissa has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder.
Moore, who directed Bowling for Columbine, was slammed on Twitter for the comment.
So we’re all in agreement this is the worst tweet ever, right? https://t.co/d42Mrlcvbh
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) March 24, 2021
Yes, clearly “American culture” is to blame when a reportedly mentally ill Syrian immigrant who expresses hatred for Trump and concerns about “Islamophobia” shoots up a supermarket. You are egregiously terrible. https://t.co/sia85QpA0Q
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 24, 2021
Still don’t think the left wants you and everyone you know dead? https://t.co/zNj0llIeQi
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) March 24, 2021
Can’t make this up. But we sure wish it were made up, don’t we? https://t.co/7OnKOes7T0
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) March 24, 2021
President Biden called on Congress to pass gun control measures on Tuesday in the wake of the shooting.
“I don’t need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common sense steps that will save lives in the future,” he said.
“This is not, it should not be, a partisan issue. This is an American issue,” he said. “It will save lives, American lives. We have to act.”
Republicans such as Sen. Ted Cruz, however, slammed Democrats’ renewed calls for gun control, accusing them of taking part in “ridiculous theater” during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
“Every time there’s a shooting, we play this ridiculous theater where this committee gets together and proposes a bunch of laws that would do nothing to stop these murders,” Cruz said Tuesday.
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“What happens in this committee after every mass shooting is Democrats propose taking away guns from law-abiding citizens because that’s their political objective,” Cruz added. “But what they propose, not only does it not reduce crime, it makes it worse.”
