According to Firearm Chronicles
My own home state of Georgia tends to lean pretty pro-gun. That’s especially true when you leave the confines of Atlanta. In fact, in a lot of ways, the rural attitudes toward Atlanta tend to be hostile…unless you’re talking professional sports, anyway.
So people running for office outside of Atlanta are often benefited from taking a pro-gun stance.
Further, a firearm giveaway is a damn good way to raise money, even for political candidates. That’s probably what former U.S. Congressman and once-again congressional candidate Paul Broun figured.
Yet some of his language about the giveaway has ruffled some feathers.
With the coronavirus pandemic spreading, a Georgia Republican running for Congress is giving away a semiautomatic rifle to one “lucky” supporter who can use it to shoot “looting hordes from Atlanta.” Paul Broun, a Tea Party Republican and former U.S. representative running for the state’s open District 9 House seat, announced a sweepstakes Friday to give away an AR-15 rifle to one person who signs up for emails from his campaign website. (Watch his video at the end of this article.) Accompanying the announcement was a video that shows Broun hiking through a field and shooting his AR-15. Near the end of the video, he shoots what appears to be an animal in the distance, and off-camera cries of indeterminate origin can be heard.
Broun told The Guardian in a Tuesday phone interview that his reference to “looting hordes from Atlanta” was “not racial.” “Only the liberal press would take that kind of position. There are a lot of white people in Atlanta as well,” Broun said to The Guardian. “Ma’am, I have been a keynote speaker at an MLK Day Celebration.”