Congresswoman (Tenney R-NY) claims most mass shooters are Democrats

[underpants]

Hollow RW talking points.

"It's interesting that so many of these people that commit the mass murders end up being Democrats," Tenney said. "But the media doesn't talk about that."

CNN followed up for clarification from her office and asked specifically what statistics she was referring to, and her campaign later issued a statement.

"I am fed up with the media and liberals attempting to politicize tragedies and demonize law-abiding gun owners and conservative Americans every time there is a horrible tragedy," Tenney said in the statement. "While we know the perpetrators of these atrocities have a wide variety of political views, my comments are in response to a question about the failure to prosecute illegal gun crime. I will continue to stand up for law-abiding citizens who are smeared by anti-gun liberal elitists."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/21/politics/claudia-tenney-mass-shooter-democrats/

[IluvPitties]

1. What a piece of shit this congresswoman is.

[OnDoutside]

8. Completely agree. I've seen her a fair few times now in interviews and she is some disgusting

POS.....says a lot about the people who vote for her.

[Stallion]

2. 100% of Mass Murderers Appear to be Gun-Nuts

[Yonnie3]

3. Bzzzzzt! Up is down, hot is cold,

Democrats do mass shootings.

Huh?

Democrats politicize them.

Huh?

Democrats smear law abiding citizens.

Project Much?

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[John1956PA]

4. Tenney is repeating a lie which sprang up after after Newtown and which has been debunked.

From https://www.snopes.com/democrat-shooters-list/ :

A list purportedly naming dozens of Democrats throughout history who have shot and killed presidents, politicians, and civilians has been circulating online since at least 2012 along with the argument that it should be illegal for Democrats to own guns. Musician Ted Nugent posted one of the most popular iterations in September 2015:

. . .

This list has evolved since it first started circulating in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012. The earliest iteration of this list we could uncover only contained five items, but as it spread people added new names and dates and removed old ones that were either irrelevant or disproven.

. . .

This viral list has been published by a wide range of outlets. However, none of those publications provided any documentation to prove that these individuals were all Democrats. Our investigation found that the majority of people on this list had no official connection to a political party, and that the majority of the incidents were not motivated by politics.

[TrogL]

5. Did you happen to notice that the campaign's response didn't answer the question.

Press: Where are your statistics documented?

Campaign: The media politicizes tragedy.

[Guilded Lilly]

6. So says a person...

belonging to the biggest law making mass murder promoting domestic terrorist group in U.S. history...Congressional Republicans

[Wounded Bear]

7. Well, I'm sure glad she didn't try to politicize the issue...

But, of course, IOKIYAR. I assume Faux has been spreading that horseshit for years.

[defacto7]

9. To simplify

Tenney lied.

[crazycatlady]

10. I remember people claiming that after Virginia Tech

Fun fact-- VA has no partisan registration.

[lpbk2713]

11. A non-answer.

They provide no source for their alternative facts. As usual.

[d_r]

12. liberal "elitists"

from a lady whose father was a state supreme court justice, who owns a printing company started by her mother's family, who graduated from Colgate and went to law school at Cincinnati.