Republican candidate tweets desire to shoot anti-gun congressman

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Think Progress


"Move it over just a bit. I was trained center mass."
ZACK FORD
MAR 20, 2018, 4:48 PM



CARL NETT. CREDIT: YOUTUBE/CARL FOR KENTUCKY


Carl Nett, a Republican candidate for Kentucky secretary of state, tweeted Tuesday a reference to shooting Congressman John Yarmuth (D-KY), who was boasting about his F rating from the National Rifle Association. “Move it over just a bit,” the tweet read. “I was trained center mass.”

“Center mass” refers to how police officers are trained to aim. Nett, a former Secret Service and CIA officer, would have been trained as such.

Nett has since deleted the tweet and tweeted a new response, insisting he would have died protecting any of the liberal officials he was previously tasked to cover.

According to the Courier Journal, one of Nett’s old deleted tweets contradicted this sentiment. In December 2016, he tweeted that he “bailed” after protecting President Obama only a few times. “I’m not a bullet sponge for just anybody,” he reportedly said.

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/kentucky-republican-shoot-congressman-bcfaadd436ff/

[old guy]

1. Hey, this is tRump world!

They are trying to normalize this behavior.

[winstars]

2. Not exactly in the footsteps of Clint Hill, who tried to protect JFK 11/22/63 is he...

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. Kentucky -- a deadly race to the bottom

Red as Russia and not nearly as smart.

Where's my Blue Moon?

[JeaneRaye]

17. Offensive

I take offense at your generalizations of Kentucky. I was born there and lived there for the first 32 years of my life. I graduated from college and am a nurse practitioner. I am not dumb and I am not red. Democrat all my life, as were my parents. I am probably left of Marx. Please don't assume that everyone is dumber than a fence post if they are from an area that you consider "red". I now live in Nevada and I can tell you that the state you live in does not define whether you are smart or dumb, blue or red. Every state has it share of rednecks, even the states you consider the bluest of the blue.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. sorry you were offended

Kentucky is in a deadly race to last place among the states. Check statistics and its current political makeup.

See, e.g.,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_delegations_from_Kentucky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_General_Assembly

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/kentucky
Overall rank 41 of 50
Health Care 45 (This one may disturb you)
Education 34 (This one disturbs my wife, a retired teacher)
Economy 45
Opportunity 30
Infrastructure 22
Crime and Corrections 9
Fiscal Stability 46 (This plus "Economy" above will spiral all the rest down)
Quality of Life 27


I was born here and have lived twice the years in Kentucky that you state. Perhaps you got out before it turned red.

I wish you well in Nevada.

[JeaneRaye]

22. I don't think you are

Actually, all those statistics bother me. My objection came from your stereotyping ALL of Kentucky. I am from Lexington, which is actually quite blue. I have family members there, that are also "blue".

[Angry Dragon]

4. he should be investigated

[Paladin]

5. Miserable gun-addled shit-for-brains. (nt)

[cannabis_flower]

6. I was once...

Handing out leaflets advocating marijuana legalization in front of the Harris County Criminal courthouse in Houston and an assistant district attorney with the Harris County Prosecutor's office told me that he wished he could shoot people like me.

He was waiting to cross the street and I stepped up in front of him and gave him a good up and down look and he asked me what I was looking at. I said " I just wanted to get a good look at you in case I ever needed to identify you in court.". His face went white and about that time he got the crosswalk signal and he got away from me as fast as he could.

Later I saw Chuck Rosenthal who was District Attorney and told him about it and he said no one in his office should be talking like that, so I hope he let his staff know that wasn't acceptable.

[Scurrilous]

7. "I was trained center mass."

Gun huggers love to trot out their silly jargon.

[Aristus]

8. That's why we're better.

Ronald Reagan: Republican.

Timothy McCarthy, the Secret Serivce agent who was shot while protecting Reagan during the John Hinckley assassination attempt: Democrat.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. +1. Though there are Republicans who protected both Clintons just as well. . . . nt

[47of74]

9. I hope this has been referred to authorities

[backtoblue]

20. Right. How is that not terroristic threatening? nt

[DFW]

11. They know they can get away with this crap

They know that Democrats just aren't as homicidal, as bloodthirsty, or as deranged as they are. So, they post this stuff for their crazies, in the hope that a few of them will take the tweets seriously, and then they delete it, saying, "hey, I was just kidding, can't you take a joke? Of COURSE I never meant it to be taken seriously (wink, wink)".

Fine, Mr. Nett, so you're not a bullet sponge for just anybody. But you ARE a shit sponge for the worst of what America has to offer, and you stink accordingly.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. No, no, no.

The ones who should be on the receiving end of a bullet are those who think guns and shooting are okay.

[gopiscrap]

14. YUP

[Turbineguy]

13. Well at least he's dumb enough to qualify

as a GOP candidate.

What bothers me is that he got into the CIA and the Secret Service. Don't they have standards or something?

[Skittles]

15. fucking gun humping COWARD

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

16. You know the thing about a bottomless pit is there really is no bottom

Just another republican creep. Probably bumped up his poll numbers though.

[sandensea]

18. If truth serum could somehow be slipped on all GOP figures, I bet 70% would say exactly the same

Gotta love candor.

[maxrandb]

21. The secret service, FBI and law enforcement all over this country

need to be purged of these racist, fascist ass- pickles!!

It's time to stop normalizing and accepting this kind of shit and clean house.

I don't care how much they squeal, these LE agencies need to be torn down to the studs.