{"id":1048066,"date":"2024-09-13T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1048066"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:06:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T19:06:54","slug":"icymi-trump-campaign-and-rnc-hold-debate-watch-party-at-worlds-largest-gun-store-one-week-after-school-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-trump-campaign-and-rnc-hold-debate-watch-party-at-worlds-largest-gun-store-one-week-after-school-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Trump Campaign and RNC Hold Debate Watch Party at \u201cWorld\u2019s Largest Gun Store\u201d One Week After School Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/trumps-campaign-holds-watch-party-at-georgia-gun-range-days-after-school-shooting\/OY42HC2ODRFUTCU5OIYMMXDFPQ\/\">Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a> reported on the Trump campaign, RNC, and Georgia Republican Party\u2019s decision to hold a debate watch party at Adventure Outdoors, known as \u201cThe World\u2019s Largest Gun Store,\u201d less than one week after the tragic Apalachee High School shooting. From telling gun violence survivors to \u2018get over it\u2019 to insisting school shootings are a \u2018fact of life\u2019 \u2013 while opposing common sense gun violence reforms at every turn at the behest of the gun lobby \u2013 Donald Trump, JD Vance, and their MAGA Republican Party continue to put Americans\u2019 safety last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read more below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/trumps-campaign-holds-watch-party-at-georgia-gun-range-days-after-school-shooting\/OY42HC2ODRFUTCU5OIYMMXDFPQ\/\"><strong>Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Trump campaign holds watch party at Georgia gun range days after school shooting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Michelle Baruchman and Greg Bluestein<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Less than a week after a shooting at a Georgia high school left four people dead, former President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign is holding one of its larger debate watch parties at a suburban Atlanta firearms outlet that bills itself as \u201cThe World\u2019s Largest Gun Store.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cHolding a political debate party at a gun range is completely out of step with the vast majority of voters who are scared to send their kids to school and not have them come home,\u201d said state Sen. Sally Harrell, one of the Democrats who have pressed for more restrictions on firearms in Georgia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Democrats and gun control advocacy groups predict the decision to keep the event at the gun store will haunt Republicans in November. Moms Demand Action, one of the most prominent gun safety organizations in the nation, said it was \u201cinsensitive, gross and reprehensible.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Country crooner Travis Tritt raffled off guns outside Adventure Outdoors to supporters of then-U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler in December 2020. Gov. Brian Kemp and failed U.S. Senate hopeful Herschel Walker picked the store for their sole joint event in 2022. And when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis visited Georgia shortly before he announced his presidential bid, he made a beeline for the sprawling suburban outpost.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on the Trump campaign, RNC, and Georgia Republican Party\u2019s decision to hold a debate watch party at Adventure Outdoors, known as \u201cThe World\u2019s Largest Gun Store,\u201d less than one week after the tragic Apalachee High School shooting. From telling gun violence survivors to \u2018get over it\u2019 to insisting school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: Trump Campaign and RNC Hold Debate Watch Party at \u201cWorld\u2019s Largest Gun Store\u201d One Week After School Shooting - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-trump-campaign-and-rnc-hold-debate-watch-party-at-worlds-largest-gun-store-one-week-after-school-shooting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-09-13T17:06:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-13T19:06:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-trump-campaign-and-rnc-hold-debate-watch-party-at-worlds-largest-gun-store-one-week-after-school-shooting\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-trump-campaign-and-rnc-hold-debate-watch-party-at-worlds-largest-gun-store-one-week-after-school-shooting\/\",\"name\":\"ICYMI: Trump Campaign and RNC Hold Debate Watch Party at \u201cWorld\u2019s Largest Gun Store\u201d One Week After School Shooting - 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