Texas Speaker Bonnen Accuses Gun Rights Advocates Of Death Threats

By Tom Knighton

Oh, what a mess in Texas.

It seems that the very same House speaker that claimed gun rights advocates came to his home–apparently vastly overstating what transpired by an order of magnitude–is now stepping up his personal beef with the group.

Now, he’s accusing them of death threats.

Speaker Dennis Bonnen says he’s received “repeated death threats” since becoming the House’s leader in January.

On Monday, Bonnen’s office released copies of about two dozen menacing messages the Angleton Republican has fielded over the past two months as he faced a backlash for squelching passage of a “constitutional carry” bill sought by ardent gun-rights advocates.

Most of the messages discussing a need for Bonnen to sustain physical harm were posted on Facebook, on either Bonnen’s page or those of two gun-rights groups, said Bonnen spokeswoman Cait Meisenheimer. A few threats came in emails or calls to Bonnen’s office, she said.

Get a rope and hang him high,” one commenter said.

“Off with his head,” said another.

Bonnen spokesman Gene Acuña acknowledged that the speaker’s office doesn’t know if Lone Star Gun Rights and Texas Gun Rights, the two groups with Facebook pages receiving some of the comments, sanctioned or encouraged the talk of …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms