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Posted: 2024-09-05T09:04:21Z | Updated: 2024-09-05T16:42:13Z Save Your Fake Prayers: Marjorie Taylor Greene Ripped Over School Shooting Response | HuffPost

Save Your Fake Prayers: Marjorie Taylor Greene Ripped Over School Shooting Response

Critics say they want real solutions not more empty calls for prayer.
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Critics put conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on blast after she responded to a school shooting in her state with a call for prayer rather than solutions for gun violence.

Two students and two teachers were killed on Wednesday during the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. Nine others were hospitalized, and dozens more were injured. 

The suspect is 14 years old and has been on the FBI s radar since last year when he allegedly made threats online that included pictures of guns.

On her official X feed, Greene called on people to join together in prayer for the victims and issued a similar call for prayer on her personal X account.

But Greene, who says she is 100% Pro-Life Pro-Gun Pro-Trump in her bio on X, earlier this year opposed a Justice Department program to help states with red flag laws designed to keep guns from high-risk people.

Shes also had multiple run-ins with gun-control activists. One in 2022 accused Greene of kicking her . In 2019, Greene filmed herself  accosting gun safety activist and Parkland school shooting  survivor David Hogg , who she called a coward. 

Given that background, Greenes critics didnt want to hear her call for prayer over action.

And many let her know, often in blunt terms: 

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