Echoing comments by Donald Trump, Senator Richard Burr “privately mused over the weekend that gun owners may want to put a ‘bullseye’ on Hillary Clinton,” CNN reported Tuesday.
“The North Carolina Republican, locked in a tight race for reelection, quipped that as he walked into a gun shop ‘nothing made me feel better’ than seeing a magazine about rifles ‘with a picture of Hillary Clinton on the front of it. I was a little bit shocked at that — it didn’t have a bullseye on it,’ he said Saturday to GOP volunteers, prompting laughter from the crowd in Mooresville, North Carolina.
Burr isn’t the first GOP politician to use bullseye imagery. Sarah Palin notoriously did so in 2010, targeting among others Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who shortly thereafter was shot by a deranged gunman.Photo: Sen. Richard Burr thinks Republicans should shoot Democrats they can’t beat at the ballot box.