GOP Rep: I Need My AR-15 To Kill Raccoons [VIDEO]

Somehow I missed this one the other day:

Please, think of the children chickens. At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence, Republican Rep. Ken Buck (Colo.) dismissed a proposal to regulate AR-style rifles, the weapon of choice for mass shooters, as “small-minded.”

Why? Because without them, Buck claimed, ranchers would be completely defenseless against varmint. “Blaming the gun for what’s happening in America is small-minded,” he said.

“In rural Colorado, an AR-15 is a gun of choice for killing raccoons before they get to our chickens,” Buck added. “It is the gun of choice for killing a fox, it is a gun that you control predators on your ranch, on your farm, on your property.”

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Buck has previously appeared on JMG for declaring that he “disagrees strongly” with the separation of church and state and for comparing homosexuality to “the choice to be an alcoholic.”

In 2020, he posted a photo of himself holding an assault rifle in his Capitol Hill office with the message that Biden and Beto O’Rourke should “come and take it.”

Buck has refused to get vaccinated against COVID.

“An AR-15 is a gun of choice for killing raccoons before they get to our chickens.”

— Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) pic.twitter.com/uTFYUaLtuN

— The Recount (@therecount) June 2, 2022

Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) suggests restricting access to AR-style rifles would lead to deaths in Colorado. Chicken deaths. #copolitics pic.twitter.com/9GUISk8k7r

— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) June 3, 2022