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"Santa, bring ammunition": A Republican congressman and his family were photographed with weapons around a Christmas tree

Thomas Massey of Kentucky posted if the defiant picture, just days after the high school shooting in Michigan.

A Democratic congressman from the state condemned: "I promise you not everyone here is insensitive idiots."

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Sunday, 05 December 2021, 11:37

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Thomas Massey (sitting on the couch on the left) and his family members holding weapons (Photo: Reuters)

A Republican congressman in the United States posted a Christmas photo of himself and his family yesterday (Saturday), smiling and holding a selection of guns. "Merry Christmas! PS Santa, please bring ammunition," tweeted Thomas Massey, a Kentucky representative in the House of Representatives. This, just days after four students were killed by gunfire from another high school student in Michigan.

Ethan Crumbley, 15, carried out on Tuesday the deadliest shooting at a school in the United States this year, which was the latest in a series of mass shootings in educational institutions in recent decades. His parents were arrested yesterday and they are accused of involvement in the murder.

Massey, who represents a distinctly Republican district, posted a picture of himself and six other people holding rifles resembling an M60 machine gun, an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and a Thompson submachine gun. Some semi-automatic weapons may look almost identical to full-fledged automatic weapons like machine guns.

U.S. law states that the use of automatic weapons is restricted to the military, law enforcement and civilians who have received special licenses for such weapons manufactured before May 1986. Jonathan Van Norman, director of Massi's campaign, has not yet responded to a Twitter response.

In the video: 15-year-old accused of murdering 4 high school students in Michigan USA (Photo: Reuters)

"I'm old enough to remember Republicans screaming that it's insensitive to try to protect people from gun violence after a tragedy," Democratic Congressman John Yarmouth, who chairs the House budget committee, said. , representing also the Kentucky, referring apparently to calls to increase gun control. "I guarantee that everyone in Kentucky are idiots insensitive."

Shooting in high school in Oxford was the last in a series of shooting incidents, sometimes lethality, dragging and debates about safety In schools, on gun possession and the right to carry them, Republicans oppose increased oversight, citing the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution that enshrines the right to carry weapons.

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