Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘Thank God for good guys with guns’
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene praised former President Donald Trump’s Secret Service detail following the assassination attempt on him.
“Thank God for good guys with guns,” she said.
She also blasted a bill introduced by Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson to strip Secret Service from convicted felons sentenced to prison. Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts in New York, but sentencing has been delayed after the Supreme Court ruled that presidents are “entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts.”
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Greene called the bill part of “the Democrats’ weaponized government.”
The Secret Service is facing increased scrutiny after the shooting.
The roof from which the shots were fired was fewer than 150 meters (164 yards) from where Trump was speaking. The AP reports that is a distance from which a decent marksman could reasonably hit a human-sized target, and for reference, 150 meters is a distance at which U.S. Army recruits must hit a human-sized silhouette to qualify with the M16 assault rifle in basic training.
The AR-style rifle, like that of the gunman at the Trump rally, is the semiautomatic civilian version of the military M16.
President Joe Biden said Sunday he has directed an independent review of the security at the rally.
Biden said he also directed the U.S. Secret Service to review all security measures for the Republican National Convention, which begins Monday in Milwaukee. Audrey Gibson-Cicchino, the Secret Service’s coordinator for the convention, told reporters later the agency was satisfied with what she called its comprehensive planning for the Republican convention.
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