Michael Flynn ‘joked’ about assassinating politicians when gifted a new semi-automatic rifle

Michael Flynn, who served as National Security Adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump for the first 22 days of his presidency, has a questionable sense of humour. Apparently, joking about mass shootings in a county where more than one actually occurs per day, is quite funny to him.

Flynn appeared at the “Church of Glad Tidings” in Yuba City, California over the weekend, where church-members presented the now-pardoned general with a semi-automatic weapon. “We were trying to come up with a rifle that we thought was appropriate for a general, so we went with an old-school Woodland camouflage ... one of our top-quality guns,” a member announced upon handing Flynn what appears to be a Woodland Camp AR-15.

Upon receiving the weapon, Flynn grinned and loudly proclaimed: “Maybe I’ll find somebody in Washington D.C.” The crowd then went wild, erupting in gleeful laughter and applause at the possibility of assassinating politicians who serve a country wherein 106 people die from gun violence daily.

Aside from having a seemingly homicidal sense of humour, Flynn is also an avid pusher of QAnon conspiracy theories. The general is believed to have helped incite the January 6 insurrection, having been banned from Twitter as a result of his role in spreading misinformation about the 2020 election.

Flynn made a questionable remark earlier this summer, too, when he general seemingly endorsed a military coup at a QAnon conference in Dallas. A self-identified former Marine in the audience asked Flynn, “why what happened in Myanmar can’t happen here,” to which Flynn replied, “no reason. I mean, it should happen.”

However, Flynn has since claimed his words were taken out of context: “There is NO reason whatsoever for any coup in America, and I do not and have not at any time called for any action of that sort.” It is unclear what he meant by his initial statement, in that case.

In any event, people are appalled by Flynn’s “humorous” take on shooting people in Washington, many addressing just how dangerous this rhetoric can be.

Others want the former general to be court martialed — which essentially means, arrested and brought to trial in military court (or you know, held accountable in the slightest).

May this serve as a reminder that generally speaking, joking about shooting people isn’t very funny — especially when 38,826 people die from gun violence in the U.S. every year — 1,663 of which are children. Just some food for thought!