Bush campaign angered after gun photo backfires

Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush is trending on Twitter but probably not for a reason he’d like.

Inform says that Jeb Bush has become “the talk of the Internet” after tweeting out a photo of a gun with his name engraved on the slide. It’s worth noting that a certain segment of the population are not offended by Bush’s tweet, and it can even be seen as patriotic. “As president, I’ll continue to protect and defend the Second Amendment”.

“We went to a gun manufacturing facility where lots of jobs are created, high wage jobs”.

Engraved “Gov. Jeb Bush”, the gun was given to the former Florida governor on a tour of an FN Manufacturing plant in SC. The post is likely an attempt by the presidential candidate to show his pro-gun colors, and many gun rights supporters received the tweet with support. The handgun inscribed with his name may have been a first for the former Florida governor: Bush claimed to not own any firearms, according to the Telegraph’s gun ownership survey of Republican presidential candidates in September. The caption: ‘America.’ The [New York] Daily News having some fun with that photo, with the headline, ‘Dolt.45: Desperate Jeb Bush gets ripped for tweet suggesting guns are America’.

In recent polling, Trump leads in sc and Bush is in fifth place in the six-person Republican field. For now, Mr. Bush is in fourth place with about 10 percent of the vote, according to recent opinion polls.

The National Rifle Association tweeted a picture of the Bill of Rights, also with the caption “America”.

As the Hill puts it: “The social media response was swift”.

Cuomo in 2013 pushed through the passage a package of gun control laws known as the SAFE Act, approved in the weeks after an elementary school shooting in CT.