Fact Checker Debunks Ilhan Omar’s Anti-Gun Claim

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Rep. Ilhan Omar is a special sort of Democrat. One of the new representatives elected during the midterms by the far Left, she’s clearly someone who hates America and would as soon see us under the kind of regime that would stone her to death for holding office.

No, I don’t expect consistency from rabid progressives.

However, I tend not to remark on Omar’s comments because her insane ramblings often don’t delve enough into the Second Amendment for me to have cause to do so. The thing is, though, she’s pretty dumb on the topic.

For example, she thinks 500 people a day are shot and killed here in the United States.

In a tweet backing Rep. Lucy McBath’s anti-gun push, she sent out this tweet.

Supporting my colleagues’ call on Senate Majority Leader to vote on H.R. 8, 1112 & 1158.
Gun violence is an epidemic.
Every day on average 500 people die from gun violence. How many more lives will we let gun violence claim?
Retweeting: https://t.co/ty5taOLeOC

— Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) June 5, 2019

See? 500 people.

Wow.

That’s 182,000 people every year, according to Omar.

And progressives wonder why folks like me can’t take them seriously.

The claim was so blatantly …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms