Channel 4 journalist told ‘go back to your country’ by Republican politician

Marjorie Taylor Greene didn’t like Channel 4’s Washington correspondent Siobhan Kennedy difficult her (Image: Channel 4 / Rex)

A British journalist was instructed to ‘return to your nation’ by Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene when she challenged the politician on America’s gun legal guidelines.

The Republican Consultant for Georgia lashed out at Channel 4’s Washington correspondent Siobhan Kennedy after she questioned Taylor Greene on America’s gun management at a press convention.

Ms Greene, 48, instructed the room it was her social gathering’s job to ‘defend the Second Modification’.

Challanging the Republican on the validity of the laws, Siobhan identified that the UK doesn’t ‘have mass shootings’ or the Second Modification.

She stated: ‘We don’t have weapons within the UK, that's true, however we don’t have mass shootings both. And our youngsters aren’t scared to go to highschool.’

Ms Greene had stepped away from the microphone when the Siobhan made the remark and rapidly turned aggressive saying: ‘You've gotten mass stabbings, girl. You've gotten all types of homicide and also you’ve received legal guidelines towards that.’

‘Not just like the charges right here,’ Siobhan responded.

‘Nicely, you'll be able to return to your nation and fear about your no weapons,’ Ms Greene shot again. ‘We like our weapons right here.’

Conservative Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene is an advocate of gun management (Image: Paul Hennessy/Anadolu Company by way of Getty Photos)

Ms Greene later posted a video of the trade on Twitter saying: ‘When British press desires to argue about our God-given American gun rights, my reply is: “return to your personal nation”.’

Hitting again Siobhan tweeted: ‘Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t pleased with me for declaring that the proposed gun laws is just not about taking her weapons away!

‘Neither is knife crime within the UK in any means comparable with gun crime right here.

‘There are not any “mass stabbings” within the UK. ‘But right here youngsters are frightened to go to highschool?’,’ she wrote.

Siobhan later spoke to MailOnline saying Ms Greene was ‘doubling down’ on her opinions by reposting the footage on-line.

‘It was a press convention of the Second Modification caucus – in different phrases a bunch of very conservative Republicans who reject any sort of gun management, just like the laws going by means of Congress proper now which seems very prone to go,’ she stated.

‘It was an enormous forwards and backwards after I requested her and the opposite members of group primarily what they had been scared of- that nobody was threatening to take their weapons away

‘It’s vital to name these politicians out and maintain them to account.’

Ms Greene, a conservative Republican, has been a vocal advocate of weapons.

Final month, in response to the mass taking pictures at Robb Elementary College, in Uvalde Ms Greene instructed a volunteer militia of fogeys and guardians be created to guard colleges.

There have been 279 mass shootings in America this 12 months in accordance with the Gun Violence Archive – which defines a mass taking pictures as 4 or extra injured or killed. 

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