Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote on Twitter that she would open hearth on an attacker, commenting on the Brooklyn subway taking pictures that passed off on Tuesday morning.

Throughout rush hour on Tuesday morning, 10 individuals had been shot on a subway within the Sundown Park neighborhood in Brooklyn, in accordance with police. 16 individuals in complete had been being handled for accidents, Laura Kavanagh, the hearth division's appearing commissioner, stated throughout a press briefing.

Marjorie Taylor Greene took to Twitter on Tuesday to sentence New York's gun legal guidelines and acknowledged that she would have shot an attacker herself.

"I carry a gun, generally fairly a couple of. I'll ALWAYS DEFEND American's RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS! As a lady & mom, I'll unload my clip on a killer attacking me, my household, or others. Then I'll reload," she wrote.

In one other tweet, Greene stated, "With New York's strict gun management legal guidelines, what number of harmless individuals had been carrying a gun when the unhealthy man with a gun broke the prevailing legal guidelines and began taking pictures individuals? Unhealthy guys do not care about gun management and gun management solely stops individuals from with the ability to defend themselves."

Greene has been a big advocate for 2nd Modification freedoms, introducing her personal laws in February generally known as the Second Modification Preservation Act (SAPA), which proposed to chop federal funding from "implementing, imposing, or advancing any measure, regulation, regulation, or steering to the lawful use, buy, sale, possession, or transportation of firearms by any citizen of america for Fiscal Yr 2021."

"Our God-given proper to guard our nation, ourselves and our households should not be up for debate," Greene stated in February.

The taking pictures in Brooklyn has prompted a number of conversations about transit security, together with latest questioning of New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams' plan to make public transportation safer.

Different transit methods throughout the U.S. have elevated safety following the assault, though no different threats in different cities have been reported.

"We're praying for all New Yorkers who had been injured or affected by at present's assault," the mayor stated in a video message from his house on Tuesday after testing optimistic for COVID-19. "The suspect in at present's assault detonated smoke bombs to trigger havoc. We is not going to enable New Yorkers to be terrorized even by a single particular person. NYPD is looking for the suspect at giant, and we'll discover him. However we ask the general public to return ahead with any data."

Police stated that the suspect stays at giant on the time of publication, and investigators say they're in search of a U-Haul truck with Arizona plates #AL31408, an inside NYPD e-mail acknowledged.

The taking pictures suspect has been described as a Black male with a heavy construct, final seen sporting a inexperienced construction-type vest with a hooded grey sweatshirt. Officers don't at the moment have a motive for the assault.

Newsweek reached out to a spokesperson for Marjorie Taylor Greene for extra remark.

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U.S. Consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene stated she would open hearth on an attacker after a shooter opened hearth in a subway in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning, injuring 16 individuals. On this picture, Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks at a information convention on Republican lawmakers' response to the January sixth assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 06, 2022 in Washington, DC.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photos