March 05, 2019 01:09 PM UTC

At Least They're Not Your Lawmakers, Pearl Clutching Edition

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• by: Colorado Pols

Shannon Watts of the gun violence prevention group Moms Demand Action Tweets from a New Hampshire legislative committee hearing today:

Male New Hampshire lawmakers on the hearing committee wearing pearls to mock @MomsDemand volunteers and gun safety advocates. #NHPolitics pic.twitter.com/rc1S3Bj9lG

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) March 5, 2019

Don’t you get the joke? Moms (meaning women) clutch pearls–especially when they’re worried about, you know, their kids dying from gun violence! Which we should all be able to agree is just too funny! Let’s get a close up of one of the ringleaders of this little I-respect-my-constituents stunt, Rep. Scott Wallace (R) for posterity:

Exactly what Democrats were looking for to address the Republican gender gap.

And by that we mean widen it.