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  She made it sound like it happened in her parking lot. 
  
  The police department told the newspaper that a man had indeed died down the street from the gun-themed Shooters Grill restaurant in August, but that an autopsy indicated that he had died after overdosing on drugs. 
  
  They didn't say how far, but r/technicallythetruth I guess?
context: The original letter: 
  After receiving the narrowest congressional reelection margin in the country, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has apparently learned absolutely nothing. By refusing to stand or applaud the heroic Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during his speech to Congress, she has once again embarrassed her 3rd Congressional District constituents and the entire country. During this historic speech, Boebert was seen scrolling on her phone rather than listening, while sitting next to U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz who was doing the same.
  Boebert and Gaetz not only refused to acknowledge the heroism of Zelensky and his country’s 300-day fight to defend their freedom from Russian aggression, but they ignored Capitol police as they blew past a security checkpoint outside the House floor, refusing to go through the security screening before entering the chamber. They are among a small group of far-right house members opposed to any future aid to Ukraine and are demanding a “full investigation” into the aid already sent to help the war-torn country survive.
  It’s clear that Boebert does not understand the importance of defending democracy in our world and does not care about the wishes of her constituents. She is clearly on the wrong side of history. Will she never learn?
  Carol Cure, Durango >
  
  
  ... they ignored Capitol police as they blew past a security checkpoint outside the House floor, refusing to go through the security screening before entering the chamber.
  
  If it's optional, it's not "security." Where are the fucking consequences?? >
  
  My thoughts exactly.  It's not like they're untouchable.  If the Capitol Police can arrest AOC and 16 other democrat members of congress in July for protesting SCOTUS, they can at least detain Bobo and Gaetz and send them through security. >
  
  No! Not “detain them”. Pull weapons on them and slam them up against the fucking wall! >
  
  But but they're white .. . >
  
  So am I. Let me try that stunt with any cops but especially Capital cops. Fuck those bastards. We need to undo this privilege shit. >
  
  Honest question, what would a "full audit" look like in this case? Isn't most of the aid package equipment and material support? >
  
  Exactly. The Federal government is sending money to US defense contractors and other manufacturers to pay for the weapons/ gear. They are sending MREs for soldiers on the front lines. On a limited basis we are paying for services like Starlink. 
  This idea that we are sending plane loads of cash to Ukraine is pure fallacy.
  If anything, this should be considered an economic subsidy for the defense industry. >
  
  Yeah in any other timeline they NeoCons would be salivating over the defense contracts but nope our timeline got hacked. >
  
  They had to choose, support authoritarianism, or the defense contractors. Half or more chose the former. >
  
  Devils advocate:
  What if playing to both sides (re: supporting Ukraine whilst the other half supports Russia) is a grand scheme to send tax dollars into the military industrial complex by prolonging the war to extract as much profit as possible from the conflict? >
  
  Well maybe if most republican officials wherent still on board with ukraine. It's half the republican electorate I'm talking about. >
  
  Apparently it's going to be a Mexican Restaurant now. >
  
  For a moment I thought you meant she was changing the menu to serve Mexican food and I was about to lose my mind.
  This is much better though. >
  
  It closed in July of this year. Lauren's excuse,
  
  Boebert said her new landlord informed her that the restaurant's lease would not be renewed after June.
  "There wasn't really much wiggle room or anywhere to compromise unless we bought the building ourselves," Boebert said. She added that she was hoping to preserve the "Shooters brand" with her husband. 
  
  But, it was already failing for reasons such as,
  
  In 2014, it made headlines after users posted pictures of its gun-toting waitresses on Facebook. The lawmaker also repeatedly used a bogus story about a man being "beaten to death" outside her restaurant to advocate for gun rights, despite the man in question having died of a drug overdose. 
  
  And,
  
  In 2017, The Daily Beast reported dozens of people at a local Colorado rodeo came down with symptoms of food poisoning after consuming the restaurant's pork sliders. 
  
  So, new owners.
  Edit- fixed link >
  
  Well if a man had actually been beaten to death outside the open carry restaurant, I feel like that just causes the "more guns = more safety" argument to look worse. Surely one of those heroes with a gun inside could have saved the man.