- In a campaign video, Jerone Davison uses a gun to scare off a group of people in Ku Klux Klan robes.
- He baselessly claims he needs a semiautomatic to fend off "angry Democrats in Klan hoods."
- Davison posted the video to Twitter on July 6, writing: "Make Rifles Great Again."
A GOP congressional candidate in Arizona has posted a bizarre, racially charged, pro-gun campaign video on Twitter.
Davison posted the video on Twitter on July 6 with the caption "Make Rifles Great Again," along with the hashtag #SelfDefense and #2A — a reference to the Second Amendment.
The video appears to show a group of armed individuals in Ku Klux Klan outfits, one toting a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, approaching a home where Davison waits dressed in a suit.
"Democrats would like to say that no one needs an AR-15 for self-defense, that no one could possibly need all 30 rounds," he says in a voiceover.
Davison then appears to emerge from the home to approach the group while carrying an AR-15-style rifle.
"But when this rifle is the only thing standing between your family and a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods, you might just need that semi-automatic and all 30 rounds," he baselessly claims in his voiceover for the video.
—Jerone Davison for Congress #AZCD4 (@Jerone4Congress) July 6, 2022
Responding to a Twitter user who called the video a "cinematic depiction" of congressional hopeful's life growing up, Davison wrote: "I was born in 1970 in Mississippi. When the KKK came to town, I always felt safe, because my father had rifles to protect us."
"Racist white liberals love to tell me that my LIVED EXPERIENCE didn't happen!" he added.
Davison, a former NFL player for the Oakland Raiders, is currently running for Congress in Arizona. His video was posted two days after a mass shooting during a Fourth of July parade in Illinois' Highland Park, left seven people dead and dozens injured.