Rep. Matt Gaetz said this week that he received a death threat following remarks he made about the school shooting last month in Nashville, and argued that leftists are driving their own side to violence with end-times rhetoric.
Speaking on Monday on his podcast “Firebrand,” the Fort Walton Beach Republican said, “Innocent people are forced to share a country with dangerous people,” and that violence is a natural consequence when Democrats repeatedly tell their followers that “Republicans are evil, and racist and fascist, and must be stopped at all costs.”
Gaetz noted the shooting on Monday in Louisville, in which a gunman killed five, including a friend of Florida GOP Sen. Rick Scott.
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Gaetz argued that the shooter was an apparent leftist, because on social media he had pronouns in his bio, criticized former President Donald Trump as a racist and advocated for COVID-19 lockdowns.
The congressman also pointed out that the shooting occurred shortly after a transgender man shot and killed six people, including three children, at a Christian school in Nashville.
Gaetz then recounted a death threat he received from someone who called his office and was “brazenly boasting about their gayness.”
In the voicemail, which Gaetz played, the caller, who identified himself as Allan Poller, who apparently was from Vermont, said, “I just want to let you know, Rep. Matt Gaetz, that if you keep on coming for the gays, we’re gonna strike back — and I guarantee you that you do not want to f–k with us.”
“We will kill you if that’s what it takes,” Poller added. “I will take a bullet to your f–king head if you f–k with my rights anymore.”
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Gaetz then said the FBI had arrested Poller.
“The Democrats are purposefully riling up their nutty shock troops in the hopes they will terrorize normal Americans into submission,” said Gaetz. “And more will come.”
Gaetz then said it was time to reopen insane asylums.
“There are severely mentally ill people who do not have a right to wander our streets, seeking who they are going to terrorize,” he said.
“It does not make us more just or more compassionate to have them walking among the rest of us.”
Following due process under the Constitution, he added, “We have to put some people away. … Good people have a right to exist in the country without wondering if some crazy leftist or some mentally ill individual lurking around the corner is about to post up and kill you.”
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