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Massie on his family's Christmas card

Dec 17, 2021 · 2:04 second-amendment

Massie tells The Hill the Christmas card was the family holding instruments. He also posted a separate photo of them with guns, from a county where the nearest deputy is an hour away.

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  1. 0:00 Guns are part of life there
  2. 0:55 How the photo happened
  3. 1:31 He posted it anyway

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  1. here's what i i think a lot of folks don't know you did not originally have the intention to have a a firearm christmas card but the massey family
  2. actually has firearms around you live in a rural part of kentucky a firearms are sort of a part of life so maybe just tell us how does the massey family think
  3. about firearms and do you view them as solely this tool of destruction or is there maybe uh just a more modest approach to this type of life that a lot
  4. of americans wouldn't understand well first of all we live in a place where there are like three sheriffs of deputies to cover hundreds of square miles everything's been adjudicated by
  5. the time the police show up okay so you got to keep that in mind they're not minutes away they are an hour away
  6. uh but also it's just a tradition of uh owning guns for all the reasons not to hunt not for this or that and here's how
  7. the christmas card picture happened i didn't mean to trigger every leftist on every continent in the united states with this christmas with this christmas card so we took christmas card pictures
  8. of us doing something we also like to do which is playing music so we're all holding musical instruments in the actual christmas card and my mail
  9. vendor said all right you need to send me that card we got to get these out by christmas so this weekend i'm going through that file folder and i found this this little gym where we just
  10. decided to pick up all the guns and pose and i was like wow this no the world's not going to see this be kind of fun just to share it
  11. and i shared it and i didn't just kick the hornet's nest i agitated every hornet on the planet and bbc was running specials on the
  12. thomas massey christmas card the archbishop of canterbury weighed in and i mean shouldn't he be making like those chocolate eggs right
  13. right i mean i'm hungry just when you mentioned that made me want one of those chocolate eggs but but i think what what a lot of people in my district saw through that
  14. is that firearms are not in and of themselves some deeply offensive thing to other people

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