Thread on the important reporting by @InOttValley on the unchecked rhetoric on guns.
"Many (Conservative MP Cheryl) Gallant followers talk about Trudeau as a dictator and needing guns to defend their freedoms. Several allude to upcoming violence". #cdnpoli https://www.insideottawavalley.com/news-story/10039042-mp-cheryl-gallant-s-extreme-rhetoric-condemned-by-anti-hate-group-fellow-mp/
MP Cheryl Gallant’s extreme rhetoric condemned by anti-hate group, fellow MP

Cheryl Gallant and her supporters' use of extreme rhetoric appears to have reached a fevered pitch since the pandemic hit, culminating with an assassination threat against the prime minister and a...

https://www.insideottawavalley.com/news-story/10039042-mp-cheryl-gallant-s-extreme-rhetoric-condemned-by-anti-hate-group-fellow-mp/
"A June 10 video titled Firearms Townhall — where she (MP Cheryl Gallant) said Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau and Public Safety Minister @BillBlair want to "disarm all Canadians” — has at least one disturbing post in the comments section." #cdnpoli
An assassination threat: “'would it not b simpler to hire couple of maffia (sic) hit men to off turdbrain and blairnuts?' said someone identified as George Edward. Gallant had yet to remove it."
For Evan Balgord of @antihateca "a line has been crossed".
Indeed.
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