Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tells crowd to pull out guns on vaccine canvassers
SalonFreshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., suggested to an Alabama crowd that they could whip out a gun on door-to-door vaccination volunteers if they show up at Alabamans' homes to ask them what their vaccination status is. " Greene's recent comments stem from a speech delivered by Biden in early July, in which the president encouraged a door-to-door outreach program in order to increase the vaccination rate throughout the nation. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki later clarified Biden's speech, explaining that the program would dispatch volunteers who are "local, trusted messengers: doctors, faith leaders, community leaders." Last month, Greene – who lost her committee seats as a result of spreading baseless and dangerous conspiracy theories – made headlines when she compared Biden's door-to-door outreach program volunteers to "medical brownshirts," a term used to denote Adolf Hitler's paramilitary unit during the Third Reich.