EDITORIAL: Kris Kobach wants you to be triggered by his big, bad, fake gun. Don’t take the bait
In a fundraising email on Monday, the Republican secretary of state bragged about the reaction to his appearance alongside what only looked like a big gun in Saturday's Old
Here's what that over-the-top fury looked like: Someone who hacked the Twitter account of the
The City of Shawnee apologized after some parents complained that their kids were nervous enough about school shootings without seeing a candidate parading what sure looked like a weapon of war.
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"My child didn't need that today," and at age 6 is already anxious about the possibility of a school shooting, Pastor
Kobach apparently does need it, though. His campaign couldn't wait to put out a statement deriding "those who use the excuse of school violence to restrict the right to bear arms." Unfortunately, school shootings are a reality, not an "excuse."
But even gun-control advocates were hardly "losing their minds" over his stunt.
Big guns have been big draws in campaigns for years. Disgraced former Gov.
And it was the false advertising implied by Kobach's appearance that
"If Kobach loves big machine guns so much," tweeted Kander, a Democrat who narrowly lost his 2016
His derision, obviously, was not the hoped-for response, but liberals are more weary of Kobach's antics than they are triggered by them.
In August's
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