Candidate for Georgia Governor is Giving Away Bump Stock Like One Used in Las Vegas Shooting

[demmiblue]

Source: Newsweek

A candidate for governor in Georgia is giving away a bump stock just weeks after a Las Vegas gunman killed 58 people after using a similar device to turn his semi-automatic rifle into an automatic weapon.

“Blaming guns or bump stocks for the actions of a lunatic, is the same as blaming McDonald’s for heart disease,” wrote Republican State Senator and gubernatorial candidate Michael Williams in a statement announcing the raffle Monday. “An attack on bump stocks is an attack on the Second Amendment.”

Bump stocks, which fit around the grip and stock of the gun, allow the recoil from the weapon to continuously pull the trigger, modifying semi-automatic weapons to become fully automatic.

Williams said he was holding the draw “in solidarity with gun owners across the nation.”

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[dhill926]

1. asshole.....

[Arkansas Granny]

2. This act defies description. 😠

[Angry Dragon]

3. This idiot is in first place for the week

[7962]

4. he has no chance of winning, so he's trying to get publicity. Idiot. nt

[Hortensis]

11. Exactly. Our GOP has far cleverer villains.

[Hoyt]

12. Maybe, hope so. But, he is a state senator and was elected in a county now considered metro-Atlanta.

[7962]

16. Doubt he has a chance against Casey Cagle though.

Havent heard who the Dems are running yet.

[Hoyt]

17. Probably right. Cagle is your typical southern GOPer. Clearly a racist, but not overt about it.

[jberryhill]

5. in solidarity with gun owners across the nation

[Turbineguy]

6. Republicans have to be armed

because of other republicans.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. +1000000!

[Maeve]

8. I'm getting so tired of the sideways arguments

No, banning bump stocks (and automatic weapons, for that matter) WON'T stop the next attack, on that we can agree. But banning them WILL limit the amount and speed of the damage possible.

Heard someone on NPR saying that bump stocks make shooting 'more fun', as if that is justification for their existance....

[moda253]

13. I quit National Petroleum Radio a while back

That group is lost to me.

[Maeve]

14. To be fair, they were interviewing people in the town where the bump stocks are made

And it was one of the locals who said that.

[Hoyt]

9. Lots of ignorant white wing gun-humpers in Georgia who vote for candidates like that.

Candidate poses with a white wing militia group -- III%ers

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Williams loves confederate monuments and hates immigrants (from his campaign site) --

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Has some fine friends too --

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[Glorfindel]

10. He's from Forsyth County. That explains a lot.

Remember this?

[Bengus81]

15. So...your heart disease from eating MikeyD's can somehow be passed on to KILL others??

How does that happen,take them hostage and force feed them MD for the next few years?? Gawd what an IDIOT!!