Congressman Thomas Massie posts Christmas family photo with guns, asking Santa about bullets after school shooting in Michigan
“Merry Christmas!, ps. Santa, please bring ammo,” read Saturday’s tweet by the Republican representative from Kentucky, which shows people pictured holding various guns.
The reaction of parents with children to the school shooting was swift.
Manuel Oliver, whose son Joaquin also died in the Parkland shooting, told CNN’s Jim Acosta Saturday that Massie’s tweet was “the worst taste ever”.
“This is also what teaches us who to choose and not to choose,” says Oliver. “It was a very unpleasant post.”
CNN has reached out to Massie and a spokesperson for the representative for comment but has not yet received a response.
The attack was the deadliest school shooting in the US since eight students and two teachers were killed in May 2018 at Texas’ Santa Fe High School, according to a CNN tally. There have been 48 shootings this year at K-12 schools, 32 of them since August 1.
