A British reporter was told to go back to his country by a Georgia lawmaker at a press conference.
There is a video of the exchange. When British press wants to argue about American gun rights, my answer is: "Go back to your own country."
The 14 GOP senators, including McConnell, were criticized at the press conference. She wanted the people to vote them out of office.
—Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) June 22, 2022
"Our job is to defend the Second Amendment."
We don't have guns in the UK but we don't have mass shootings either. The British reporter said that children are not afraid of going to school.
The UK has "mass stabbings" and "all kinds of murder" according to the man.
The reporter said that the rates were the same.
You can return to your country and worry about your guns. We enjoy ours here.
Insider did not get a response from the office.
The UK's murder rate was 9.9% in the year ending March 2021. 36 of the 594 homicides that year involved a gun.
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the murder rate in the US was 7.5 murders per 100,000 people in 2020. The majority of the homicides that year involved a firearm.
Local law enforcement in the UK can issue five-year gun ownership certificates to people who have undergone multiple background checks and have a valid reason for needing the firearm.
More than half a million people in the UK own a shotgun or firearm certificate, according to the latest statistics. There are more than 300 million guns owned by civilians in the US.
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