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As the House moves to vote on a far more controversial gun ban proposal than the Senate is considering, two voices on the outer edges of the issue clash over the heated politics at the debate’s center.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) challenged gun control advocate David Hogg to meet to discuss “common sense solutions” to recent school shootings such as the February 2018 shooting at Hogg’s Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that pushed him into gun advocacy.
But Hogg rejected her offering, calling it a fundraising stunt.
Greene also ripped unnamed pro-gun groups for failing to organize protests like the anti-gun crowd has. “Pro-Gun groups take in membership fees & send emails, but never organize & train activism to protect our rights,” she tweeted, adding, “That needs to change.”
On Sunday, Greene tweeted to Hogg, “I hear you & your girls are funded to come to town this week to once again try to manipulate some of my gutless weak colleagues to vote for gun control that will violate our freedoms and leave Americans defenseless. I don’t see you on my schedule, why not?”
Hogg responded, “Congresswoman Greene, I’m more interested in protecting children and meeting commonsense people who are looking for reasonable solutions to stop children from dying. Don’t really have time to help you go viral for attacking survivors so you can fundraise. Respectfully, David.”
Greene, who opposes most gun control and has conducted fundraising “gun giveaways,” responded, “David, you fundraise for a living. If you wanted to fix it, you would discuss common sense solutions with me, someone who has also been on lockdown as a student when the only madman with a gun is another student who wants to kill people. Not just bully my weak RINO colleagues.”
The clash was one of several between gun control advocates and lawmakers resisting changes to Second Amendment rights over the weekend in the walk-up to the House vote and Saturday’s gun control protest march in Washington.
The House bill, which includes much of what President Joe Biden is seeking, is unlikely to get any support in the Senate. Negotiators there are looking instead at adjusting mental health and gun background check details, not gun bans.
Greene also challenged gun rights groups to counter the anti-gun protesters hitting the halls of Congress this week.
In one of her first MTG Live podcasts, she was critical of gun groups who haven’t organized their own protests in Washington, choosing instead to lobby lawmakers.
“The radical Left will be there. They’ll be the ones fighting to take away your rights. While none of the freedom loving Second Amendment supporters and gun owners, you guys won’t be in Washington because you haven’t been organized by the groups that you pay your money to to be there. And that makes me unhappy and I’m sorry for that. It needs to change,” said Greene.
