Over the past 20 years, the US has skilled a variety of mass shootings. 2021 has been no totally different. There have been high-profile massacres in each Atlanta, Georgia and Boulder, Colorado.

And the responses to the mass shootings have adopted the standard script. Democrats use the incidents to name for frequent sense gun controls. And Republicans clutch their pearls and declare that if assault weapons are banned, Individuals could have no strategy to defend themselves.

No member of the GOP clutches their pearls tougher than Lindsay Graham. The South Carolina senator has been a frequent critic to even the smallest measures of gun management. He continued to push this message immediately with a video from a neighborhood gun vary.

The video options the GOP lawmaker taking pictures an assault type rifle. He captioned the publish, “In 1994, there was an Assault Weapons Ban – the proof signifies that there was actually no change in any respect in crime, as a result of the crooks are going to get a gun!” Graham wrote in a tweet accompanying the video. Right this moment at @PalmettoArmory I fired one of many weapons they’re attempting to ban. #2A.”

In 1994, there was an Assault Weapons Ban – the proof signifies that there was actually no change in any respect in crime, as a result of the crooks are going to get a gun!

Right this moment at @PalmettoArmory I fired one of many weapons they’re attempting to ban. #2A pic.twitter.com/XI985BZ96F

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) April 1, 2021

Graham talked concerning the weapon throughout an interview with Fox Information. He was extensively mocked after telling Chris Wallace, “I personal an AR-15. If there’s a pure catastrophe in South Carolina the place the cops can’t defend my neighborhood, my home would be the final one which the gang will come to as a result of I can defend myself.”