March 24, 2021 01:29 PM UTC

Boebert Raises Cash Post-Boulder: "They Want To Take Our Guns"

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• by: Colorado Pols

Ernest Luning reports for the Colorado Springs Gazette:

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert drew criticism Tuesday after the Silt Republican sent a fundraising email Monday as a mass shooting unfolded at a Boulder supermarket, asking supporters for campaign donations to help keep “radical liberals” from taking guns away from law-abiding Americans.

“I will fight this new attack on our sacred rights with everything I have,” Boebert said in the email, which was obtained by Colorado Politics.

According to a time-stamp on the email, it was sent by her re-election campaign around 5 p.m. Tuesday, roughly two hours after police surrounded a Boulder King Soopers following reports of an active shooter at the store. Hours later, authorities announced 10 people had been killed and a suspect was in custody.

From the contents of Rep. Lauren Boebert’s fundraising appeal, sent late Monday well after the mass shooting in Boulder was dominating national headlines:

This effort can only end with one thing: turning law abiding citizens into criminals. That’s what they want. Do you thing [sic-Pols] the gang members, drug runners, and thugs will obey their laws? Of course not. This is about punishing conservatives who want to keep the right to defend their family and their livelihood.

I told Beto “Hell No” when he tried to take my guns. Now I am in Congress to tell Joe Biden the same. Will you please help me send them a message by pitching in $10 right now?

They want to defund our police. Then they want to take our guns. What do we think comes next? We cannot lose this right. Please help me stand up to the radical gun-grabbing left.

Although Boebert’s fundraising email doesn’t appear to have directly referenced the tragedy in Boulder Monday afternoon, there’s just no way to excuse sending this email two hours after the first reports of a mass shooting unfolding in Boebert’s home state. If it was automatically scheduled, cancel it. Maybe not forever, but at least for a day or two–simply to not look like you’re raising money directly off a mass shooting where ten fellow Coloradans died.

This, of course, is what elected officials with a rudimentary sense of decency consider before they click “send.”

We’re learning to know better with Rep. Boebert, but it still comes as a shock from time to time.