On Thursday, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) went after Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg, after he called her one of the "real threats" facing Congress.
"David, please. We all saw how tough you were when questioned face to face," wrote Boebert, a presumed reference to a video of him being harassed by fellow GOP lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). "Give your keyboard a rest, child."
Boebert's remarks drew instant backlash on social media, with commenters slamming the freshman congresswoman for going after a college student. Some of them referenced her alleged tweets revealing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's location in the Capitol while the riot was in progress to suggest Hogg had a point.
This is disgraceful. You should be ashamed of yourself.
— Andrew Weinstein (@Weinsteinlaw) January 29, 2021
Ha- funny enough last I checked I wasn’t the Congresswomen trying to bully a college student on twitter.
— David Hogg (He / Him) (@davidhogg111) January 29, 2021
I’ll say the same thing to you I said about your evil twin- if you shoot me you prove my point.
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He lived through a gun massacre at his high school and so You’re bullying him
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) January 29, 2021
.@davidhogg111 had more maturity, insight & integrity than you when he was still in diapers. Child.
— Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 (@NickKnudsenUS) January 29, 2021
So, just today:1 freshman Republican congressperson cyber-bullied survivors of school mass shooting, another was quoted saying that Jews with Lasers started a wildfire, and another had a great joke about the Holocaust & free shipping.
— David Rothschild (@DavMicRot) January 29, 2021
You’re a United States Congresswoman attacking a “child”? Nice look. Don’t you have a real job to do, that we the taxpayers are paying for? The people of Colorado’s 3rd deserve so much better than an overpaid Twitter troll.
— Laura Packard (@lpackard) January 28, 2021
The big difference between you and @davidhogg111 is that when HIS institution was attacked, he didn't tweet out the location of potential victims.
— Fr. Robert R. Ballecer, SJ (@padresj) January 29, 2021
Are you fucking ten
— Cam (@cameron_kasky) January 29, 2021
So now you pick on boys. You're so special. It's all good, you won't be a problem soon enough, You will be removed and Prosecuted. Oathkeepers, your downfall. Hope it was worth it. Justice is Coming sweetheart.😉
— Badd Company (@BaddCompani) January 29, 2021
