Congresswoman Says Many Mass Murderers ‘End Up Being Democrats’
Representative Claudia Tenney, a first-term Republican from Central New York, said in a radio interview on Wednesday
that “so many” mass murderers “end up being Democrats.”
Democrats immediately condemned her remarks, which came a week after 17 people were killed at a high school in Parkland, Fla.,
and called on her to apologize for politicizing gun tragedies.
Ms. Tenney said she feared lawful gun owners “are going to be targeted now” even though “in
their demographic they have the least amount of crimes of virtually any other demographic
The Southern Poverty Law Center released a report this month
that counted 100 people killed or injured by “alleged perpetrators influenced by the so-called ‘alt-right’” between 2014 and 2018.
James Hodgkinson, who opened fire last year on Republicans during their practice for an annual bipartisan congressional baseball game, had written anti-Trump
and anti-Republican remarks on social media ahead of the attack.
He wounded several people, including Representative Steve Scalise, a top Republican lawmaker, though only the gunman died in that shooting.