Politician says dont be weak and gay, shoot terrorists before the kill you

What kind of country is this if it is dangerous for an unarmed person to live there?

Former candidate for Missouri Secretary of State Valentina Gomez called on Americans to shoot terrorists themselves:

Congress and the FBI are just a bunch of clowns who love to send money, your sons and daughters to other countries - but not to America. The terrorists are already here. So buy bullets, train, so you can confidently neutralize them before they neutralize you.

It was a fringe Republican campaign ad that could be ripe for parody on late-night television, ideal material for a skit on “Saturday Night Live” or the target of a monologue from a bewildered Jon Stewart. Except it was real, and it is hard to imagine how it could be further satirized.

“In America, you can be anything you want,” Valentina Gomez, a 25-year-old immigrant from Colombia and real estate investor running in the G.O.P. primary for secretary of state in Missouri, says in the video as she jogs through a historic district of St. Louis to the uplifting beats of “The Show Goes On” by Lupe Fiasco.

“So don’t be weak and gay. Stay hard,” she continues, emphasizing her statement with an expletive. The neighborhood where the video was filmed, Soulard, has a significant L.G.B.T. community.

The campaign ad, which Ms. Gomez shared on her social media accounts, then transitions from the video of Ms. Gomez — wearing running shorts and a vest resembling body armor — to a still photo of the candidate in front of a truck and wearing a National Rifle Association hat, with an American flag at her side and a gun in each hand.

In February, she posted a video of herself burning L.G.B.T.Q. books with a homemade flamethrower. A month later, she said that countries that ban flamethrowers were also “weak and gay,” and has since repeatedly used the homophobic phrase as an insult, wielding it as a campaign slogan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/us/politics/valentina-gomez-video-backlash.html

https://ballotpedia.org/Valentina_Gomez