A Tennessee politician tried to school some students to protest gun violence in the Tennessee Capitol on Saturday, but missed the mark by a long shot.
The students were responding to a recent shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville that left three children and three adults dead.
State Rep. William Lamberth agreed to talk to the protesters, but had a strange way of trying to win the debate with students worried about getting shot in class.
Lamberth’s approach is to ask firearms students what they prefer to shoot.
“If there’s a firearm you’re comfortable shooting, show me which one,” he asked rhetorically.
Lamberth may think the questions the protesters are asking are deep and Socratic, but they are heartless — especially when accompanied by shrugs.
“So you’re not going to like my answer, and, look, I’m going to tell you straight,” Lamberth warned. “It’s not about this one gun.”
He went on to claim that it was impossible to keep every gun out of “the hands of madmen, lunatics, [or] an accused criminal,” and even if it was done, “will do nothing to prevent your safety altogether.”
Lamberth has previously argued against red flag laws, saying that, “We don’t take away a Fourth Amendment right or a First Amendment right, or a Second Amendment right or a Fifth Amendment right without due process, without making sure that everybody knows what the rules are going to be.” time.”
Of course, his comments suggesting one gun will kill you are similar to others mocked by Twitter users.