Four days after the high school massacre in Oxford, Mich., The photo comes as a shock.
On Saturday, a member of the US Congress posted on his social networks a "Christmas card" in the glory of arms.
Thomas Massie, Republican representative from Kentucky, poses in front of his Christmas tree with his wife Rhonda, their two sons, their two daughters, and the oldest son-in-law.
They all have a gun in their hand and a big smile on their face.
" Merry Christmas !
Santa, please bring ammunition, ”he captioned.
Merry Christmas!
🎄
ps.
Santa, please bring ammo.
🎁 pic.twitter.com/NVawULhCNr
- Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 4, 2021
He collected more than 60,000 comments, condemning for many this staging, but also, in a country deeply divided around the free movement of firearms and the constitutional right of everyone to own one, thousands of "likes »Approvers.
Among the weapons, a discerning eye can recognize an M 60 submachine gun, an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, and a Thompson submachine gun.
Some semi-automatic weapons are designed to resemble fully automatic weapons such as machine guns which, according to US federal law, are reserved for military and law enforcement use.
A civilian who has obtained a special license may nevertheless have one, if it was manufactured before May 1986.
"Not everyone in Kentucky is a callous asshole"
Democratic US Representative John Yarmuth, who chairs the House of Representatives Budget Committee, condemned his colleague's post.
"I'm old enough to remember Republicans screaming that it was callous to try to protect people from gun violence after a tragedy," Yarmuth wrote on Twitter.
"I promise you not everyone in Kentucky is a callous asshole," he added, referring to the murder of four high school students in Michigan by 15-year-old Ethan Clumbey, to whom his parents had offered a gun eight days ago for Black Friday promotions.
A rare occurrence in the United States: they have been charged with manslaughter while their son is silenced.
I'm old enough to remember Republicans screaming that it was insensitive to try to protect people from gun violence after a tragedy.
Now they openly rub the murder of children in our faces like they scored a touchdown.
Disgraceful.
- Rep.
John Yarmuth (@RepJohnYarmuth) December 4, 2021
Thomas Massie, 50, a graduate, like his wife, of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has sat in the Federal House of Representatives since 2012. Conservative with a libertarian tendency - a very religious vision of liberalism which recognizes the absolute right to property - he has been widely re-elected since.
Nicknamed "mister No" in the House for his propensity to oppose everything, even to proposals which achieve consensus, he is a member of the Law Commission and says he is involved in politics in particular to defend civil liberties, the law. to have guns and intellectual property.
