September 06, 2024 10:03 AM UTC

Boebert's Most Horrifying "Resurfaced" Video Yet?

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• by: Colorado Pols

In 2018, Lauren Boebert recorded a video while driving to go protest against students who were protesting school shootings.

Boebert called America’s 15,000 “gun related deaths” per year, “a drop in the bucket.” pic.twitter.com/7y0BzsKfcK

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) September 4, 2024

With another school mass shooting in the headlines this week, a clip of “resurfaced” video from now-Rep. Lauren Boebert is stirring fresh controversy, being perhaps one of the most offensive things Boebert has ever said about the issue of gun safety–so much so it’s remarkable that this is the first time we’ve ever seen it:

Meidas News reports:

In the viral, resurfaced comments, Lauren Boebert, while driving, complained that those who wanted to an end to school shootings didn’t know what they were marching for:

“So I am on my way to Carbondale, Colorado. There’s supposedly an organized march, the March For Our Lives, that’s going to take place, and I’m really interested to see if people know what they’re marching for.

I guess this is supposed to be the beginning of people speaking out to take away our Second Amendment rights, and I’m not happy about it.”

And then, after noting that there are “nearly a million abortions” in America every year, Boebert dropped the now-viral rhetorical bomb that even after all these years of Boebert’s daily outrages manages to shock the conscience:

Boebert then called gun violence death “a drop in the bucket”:

“Do you know how many gun violent deaths there are? Gun related deaths there are in America per year? 15,000. Hmm. A drop in the bucket I’d say.” [Pols emphasis]

So first of all, Boebert is undercounting the number of firearm-related deaths in 2018 by more than half, presumably by omitting suicides. But the details don’t really matter, all we need to know is that Boebert called the deaths of thousands of people every year a “drop in the bucket.” It doesn’t matter what Boebert was comparing those deaths to. She called the death by guns of 15,000 people “a drop in the bucket,” and there is no circumstance where that is not sickening on a fundamental level.

If it does not sicken you, no matter how you feel about abortion or any other issue, it’s time to check your own humanity.