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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Naughtie

Lauren Boebert spews self-pitying rant about being ‘blamed’ for mass shootings after response to Club Q attack

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In the wake of the massacre at Colorado Springs’s Club Q, far-right Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is complaining of being “blamed” by left-wing critics for mass shootings and political violence across the US.

Ms Boebert, who recently eked out the narrowest of re-election wins in what was thought to be a safely Republican district, tweeted her condolences after the massacre, but immediately found herself being called out for offering sympathies to the victims of the shooting after a long history of virulently anti-LGBT remarks.

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