A New Hampshire congressional candidate confronted gun control activist David Hogg and declared he has no intention of giving up his firearms because there’s no guarantee America won’t fall into tyranny.
Lily Tan Williams, a candidate for the New Hampshire House of Representatives, attended a gun control debate at nearby Dartmouth College.
Tan Williams has been staunchly pro-gun since emigrating from communist China, and has garnered attention for her comments. platform She said she grew up under Mao Zedong.
During the event’s question period, candidates approached the microphones in the audience and asked Hogg questions.
“Hello, my name is Lily Tan Williams. Welcome to my ‘live free or die’ state,” she began.
“Actually, I’m a Chinese immigrant who survived communism. Under Mao Zedong, 40 million people starved to death after Mao sold communism. And 20 million died…during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. “He was murdered,” she continued. .
Then she specifically addressed Hogg: “So, David, my question to you is, as a gun owner, can you assure me tonight that the government in Washington, D.C., will never, ever become a tyrannical government? Can you give me that guarantee? “Is that for me?” ”
“There is no guarantee that no government will be tyrannical,” Hogg replied.
“So, that’s over the gun control debate, because I’m never going to give up my guns. Never, ever. And I’m going to go to China and see how gun control works for the Chinese Communist dictatorship. You should.”
Hogg has become a gun control activist since the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where he was a student.Hogg argued against Spike Cohen The correlation between gun ownership and gun deaths/violent crime.
Cohen presented data from multiple sources that refute the idea that having guns automatically increases crime, saying that despite having fewer guns per capita than the United States, the country has a higher murder rate. He said there are many countries. The nonprofit CEO also cited an overall increase in suicides as a major factor in the increase in gun deaths.
“It’s a gun,” Hogg retorted. “I wish I could print out a graph myself showing the relationship between firearm ownership and gun homicide rates, apart from suicide numbers. There’s a pretty strong correlation in all these developed countries,” he continued. Ta.
“If you look at the countries with the highest rates of gun violence, they also have poverty, they have systemic racism, and all other forms of systemic injustice; I agree that we need to address this, but the reality is that what happened in Parkland is far more likely to happen in Switzerland, the UK, or most other developed countries than it is to happen in the US. “It’s difficult,” the 23-year-old added.
Along with gun control, Republican candidate Tan Williams warned of the brainwashing of children who rebel against their parents and the division of society as a step toward communist dictatorship in the United States.
“I grew up in China under Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution and fled communism for the freedom of America,” Tan Williams wrote on his website.
“I fear that the country I love is becoming like the country I left. That’s why I’m running for Congress. It’s time to protect and keep the American Dream alive for us, kids. “
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