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  • 2022-05-27 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Florida Politician Randy Fine Publish This Tweet About ‘Sacrificing’ School Children For The Second Amendment? (en)
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  • An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a tweet from Florida state Rep. Randy Fine in which he claims he is willing to sacrifice the lives of elementary school children in order to protect the Second Amendment. Verdict: False The tweet is from a parody account. There is no record of Fine making such a statement. Fact Check: A gunman shot and killed 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday before being killed by law enforcement, according to the Associated Press . Shortly after the massacre, an alleged tweet from Fine began circulating on social media. Elementary School Children is a small sacrifice that I’m willing to make for the Second Amendment, the alleged tweet reads. Public schools aren’t in the Constitution. @VoteRandyFine in 2022. Gun Owner, Gun Lover, Gun Conoissuer, and an A+ Grade by the NRA, the National Rifle Association! The tweet is not from Fine’s official Twitter account. A reverse keyword search revealed the tweet is originally from a parody account with the handle @VoteRandyFineFL that has 90 followers. The account’s bio reads, Husband, father of two they/them’s. Pro-1A, Anti-Woke. P arody account? There is no evidence Fine published such a tweet on his official Twitter account , which has over 8,000 followers and the handle @VoteRandyFine. The tweet could not be found on his account or on archived versions of the account. (RELATED: Did The NRA Support Mark Warner As A Governor?) I did not make this tweet, said Fine in an emailed statement to Check Your Fact. It was published by a fake Twitter account @voterandyfinefl. My account is @voterandyfine (no fl). There are no news reports suggesting Fine made such a remark at any point, though he has previously expressed his support for the Second Amendment on Twitter. Fine published a tweet May 25 that reads, I have news for the embarrassment that claims to be our President — try to take our guns and you’ll learn why the Second Amendment was written in the first place. (en)
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