Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert double-team Kamala Harris over assault weapons
On a day when it was learned that last month’s dispute between Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) on the House floor was a factor in Greene’s expulsion from the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus, the far-right congresswomen who’ve reportedly been feuding for months appear to have landed on the same page Thursday.
Greene and Boebert put their love for assault weapons ahead of their differences as the lawmakers double-teamed Vice President Kamala Harris on social media.
Boebert replied to a Harris tweet urging Congress to pass an assault weapons ban by saying that “There is no such thing as an assault weapon, as you know.”
“Fun day at the talking point factory?”
Greene jumped in too.
“Are you giving up your security protection who carry ‘assault weapons?” she wrote in a reply to Harris’ post.
“Yeah, I didn’t think so,” Greene added. “The American people are not giving up their guns either.”
Harris’ remark appears to be part of a broad Biden Administration effort to push for an assault weapons ban.
President Joe Biden issued a statement Tuesday calling for such a ban on the one-year anniversary of the Highland Park mass shooting in which a man armed with AR-15 killed seven people and wounded dozens.
Biden praised Illinois lawmakers who have since passed an assault weapons ban along with “numerous advocates, and gun violence survivors" who "have fought tirelessly to turn the pain of Highland Park and other acts of gun violence into meaningful action on behalf of all Illinoisans."
The president then said, "This past January, they succeeded in banning assault weapons — like the one used in Highland Park — as well as high-capacity magazines across Illinois.”
Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday said “President Biden is doing everything in his power — from enacting historic gun safety legislation last summer to two dozen executive actions — to combat the epidemic of gun violence across America. But he also knows that that is not enough, which is why on the heels of the tragedies we saw unfold across the last few days, the President continues to call on Republican lawmakers in Congress to come to the table and ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, to require safe storage of guns, to end gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability, and to enact universal background checks.”