Lauren Boebert claims banning assault weapons will lead to Americans eating dogs like in Venezuela

Freedom Caucus Rep. Lauren Boebert claims that banning assault weapons in the United States will lead to Americans eating dogs, like in Venezuela, where she says ‘they eat the dogs because they don’t have firearms.’ 

Boebert made the comments while speaking to Newsmax’s Sebastian Gorka on Monday as she discussed her views on the importance of guns in America. 

Boebert told Gorka that people in Venezuela started eating dogs because they don’t have firearms. She drove home the point that the same would happen in America if guns were taken away from citizens.  

Her comments come on the Newsmax show after the House passed a ban on assault weapons by a narrow 217-213 margin the week prior. 

The clip of Boebert, a far right Republican, has already been viewed more than 1 million times. 

‘If the citizenry in America is disarmed then we are no longer citizens we are subjects,’ Boebert said in the video.

‘You know here in America we have gourmet treats for puppies, we have these amazing groomers for dogs.

‘Well in Venezuela they eat the dogs and it started because they don’t have firearms.

‘They do not have a way to protect themselves, to defend themselves against a tyrannical government.’ 

Boebert has received a slew of criticism on social media following the comments. 

Democratic nominee in Colorado’s 3rd District Adam Frisch tweeted: ‘The reasoning here is definitely a stretch. If Lauren Boebert agrees to more debates with me, I will ask her to elaborate.’

A journalist for the Atlantic journalist Christopher Orr wrote: ‘Lauren Boebert has mastered GOP talking: string together completely random things her supporters will find awful, eating dogs! restrict guns! Venezuela! and hope they don’t notice that even if those random things weren’t false, there’d be no remote connection between them.’ 

During Boebert’s Newsmax interview Monday, she also talked about her confrontation with 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke back in September of 2019 before she had taken office. 

O’Rourke had announced his proposed firearm confiscation plan about taking citizens’ AR-15s and Boebert had strong words for him. 

Boebert, who was at the time the owner of a restaurant where the staff carries firearms, spoke from the crowd with handgun was holstered at her side.

‘I have four children, I am 5-foot-0, 100 pounds, cannot really defend myself with a fist.’

‘I want to know how you’re going to legislate that because a criminal by [definition] breaks the law, so all you’re going to do is restrict law-abiding citizens, like myself,’ she told O’Rourke.

Boebert, a first-term firebrand, saw her GOP-leaning 3rd Congressional District in western Colorado become even more Republican after redistricting. 

She had little trouble with moderate state Rep. Don Coram, a rancher and hemp farmer, who slammed what he calls Boebert’s extremism.

Boebert trumpeted her gun-toting Second Amendment credentials and opposition to COVID-19 restrictions that briefly shuttered her ‘Shooters’ restaurant.

Boebert opened Shooter’s Grill in 2013 on the premise that it was a place where patrons are not only welcome but actively encouraged to bring their guns.

That sentiment is reflected in the décor on every wall on which guns are mounted and pro-gun posters and messages plastered.

Meanwhile servers bring diners their burgers and fries with a side-order of conspicuously holstered firearms.

Boebert made headlines in May when she pushed back against calls for greater gun restrictions in the wake of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which saw 19 children slaughtered along with two of their teachers at Robb Elementary School.

She took the view that the shooting was proof of a need to arm teachers in classrooms insisting there was ‘no need to take guns away from law abiding citizens.’

She reasoned: ‘When 911 happened we didn’t ban planes, we secured the cockpit.’

Uvalde gunman Salvador Ramos, 18, legally purchased two AR-style rifles just days before committing the atrocity and shortly after his 18th birthday.

Boebert has since doubled-down on her calls to arm teachers and turn schools into ‘impenetrable’ fortresses.

Days after voicing her views on that matter Boebert was on stage at a pre-primary rally in Casper, Wyoming, in which she lent her support to Harriet Hageman who is challenging Rep. Liz Cheney for the Republican nomination.