Uvalde school shooting: Marjorie Taylor Greene tweets, “We don’t need more gun control.”

After news of a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right conspiracy theorist up for re-election in Georgia’s primary elections on Tuesday, was among the first to leap into the battle with a demand to resist new gun control attempts.

The Trump acolyte took to Twitter minutes after the shooting’s death toll reached 15 to declare that more efforts to regulate America’s widespread gun ownership, which vastly outpaces other countries that do not see such violence, were unnecessary. The death toll was ultimately raised to 19, with two adults and 19 students killed in the tragedy.

“Our nation needs to take a serious look at the state of mental health today,” she argued.

“America is failing our youngest generations from decades of rejecting good moral values and teachings,” her tweet continued. “We don’t need more gun control. We need to return to God.”

The far-right freshman member of the House is up for reelection in November and faced numerous Republican rivals in a primary election on Tuesday. Given the district’s near-total lack of polling and Ms Greene’s slew of problems since taking office, the state of the election was not immediately obvious leading into Tuesday’s vote.

She was one of several politicians who reacted quickly to the horrifying news from Texas, where authorities said an 18-year-old high school student killed more than a dozen people in a rampage at an elementary school.

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