Extremist Rep. Lauren Boeberts (R-Colo.) co-sponsoring of a bill to lionize the AR-15 rifle as Americas national gun was the subject of a scathing letter to The Denver Post this week.

Is this a cruel joke? asked Boebert constituent Andy Wiessner, who noted the firearms use in many mass shootings .

The letter denounced the rifle as a weapon of war that uses bullets designed to tear human flesh to pieces by yawing, tumbling or fragmenting in the body, thereby causing maximum internal bleeding and tissue damage.