Representative Lauren Boebert, who has made a name for herself by being extremely pro-gun and posing in front of a bunch of precariously stacked bookshelf firearms, is predictably quite unhappy about Joe Biden’s recent executive orders pushing for stricter gun control measures. In response, she tweeted a quote claiming that gun restrictions are the best way to “enslave” them, perhaps not knowing that the man she tweeted owned slaves.
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“To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them,” said slave owner George Mason.
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“Democrats & their allies seek to enslave and control the people of the United States and every aspect of their lives,” wrote Boebert after quoting the slave owner. “Only learn what they approve of, say what they agree to & work when permitted.”
According to George Mason University president Dr. Gregory Washington, Mason owned over 100 slaves in his lifetime in spite of helping to write the nation’s documents “codifying Americans’ right to liberty.” This has resulted in Washington feeling rather uncomfortable with the name of the university he leads as a Black man, though he ultimately argued in favor of keeping it.
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Boebert, meanwhile, is either profoundly ignorant about the person she is quoting or is not bothered by the irony of railing against enslavement by quoting a man who was very much pro-slavery. It’s already bad enough to evoke the memory of U.S. chattel slavery in order to try and scare people away from things like the closing of gun control loopholes and strengthening background checks.
A quick glace-over of Biden’s actual orders reveals that they are far from “disarming” a nation. The only real restrictions on actual gun-related items that he proposed were on “bracers,” directing the Justice Department to come up with a rule to “make clear when a device marketed as a stabilizing brace effectively turns a pistol into a short-barreled rifle subject to the requirements of the National Firearms Act.”
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The other orders involve community violence prevention measures outside of gun control, creating a model for state legislation on “red flag” laws (which states can choose to model or not), close loopholes that prevent gun sales from being tracked like they’re already supposed to be, and creating an annual report on firearm trafficking. The last simply nominates David Chipman to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
None of this seems to matter to Boebert, but it definitely matters to the people responding to her tweet.
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Your slavery kink is getting out of hand
— Moses
(@hollowman928) April 9, 2021
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*First Published: April 9, 2021, 1:48 pm
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