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NY Senator Behind Social Media Checks For Gun Buyers Law Tweets ‘Kill Yourself!' at GOP Aide
 [Range 365] Sen. Kevin S. Parker, a Brooklyn Democrat with a colorful reputation, casually tweeted at a Republican spokeswoman on Tuesday and told her to commit suicide.Sen. Kevin S. Parker (D) of Brooklyn, New York, the "brains" behind a bill that would scrutinize gun buyers’ social media and Internet search history before they make a purchase, flew off the handle in his characteristic fashion and told a GOP Aide to ’Kill Yourself!’ in a Tweet. The New York Times reports that Candice Giove, deputy communications director for the outgoing Republican majority leader, John J. Flanagan, called the Senator out for possibly misusing his Senate-issued parking placard on Twitter. "Kill Yourself!" he wrote in response in a now-deleted Tweet. The Brooklyn politician did later apologize, but only after an outpouring of negative feedback on the remark. The unhinged remarks follow a pattern of behavior for Mr. Parker, who would likely not qualify to a buy a firearm in his proposed bill that would review gun buyers’ social media accounts. But he may not be able to purchase a gun already, as he was arrested and indicted on second- and third-degree assault, third- and fourth-degree criminal mischief, third-degree menacing and second-degree harassment for an assault on a news photographer outside his Brooklyn home, according to the New York Daily News. The New York Times reports he was convicted of two counts of criminal mischief for the fisticuffs. Posted by: Besoeker 2019-01-03 |
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