Trey Gowdy Under Fire For Comments Following School Shooting
Greenville’s very own former Congressman Trey Gowdy wasted no time in turning the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School into a political talking point to push his agenda and garner another 15 seconds of fame. On August 27, he appeared on the show “Outnumbered” to discuss the shooting and push for more constitutional violations of our Second Amendment, which has already been whittled down to a shell of what the founders intended.
“And the only way to stop it is to identify the shooter ahead of time or keep the weapons out of their hands. So we’re going to have to have a conversation of freedom versus protecting children.”
Mark Lynch, also a Greenville native who is running against Lindsey Graham in the US Senate Republican Primary, quickly responded to Gowdy on X by saying he did not represent the interests or beliefs of South Carolinians.
🚨New: Trey Gowdy is calling for Gun Control on Fox News and he is blaming young white men
— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) August 27, 2025
What is your response to Trey Gowdy? pic.twitter.com/d7sracstjM
In addition to pushing gun control in his appearance, Trey Gowdy also made the baseless claim that “it is always a young, white male” who is the perpetrator of school shootings. Trey Gowdy seems to be superimposing his own facts onto reality in order to justify his crazed statements and conclusions about these tragic events and the perpetrators of them, so that he can pursue his political agenda of stripping constitutional rights away from Americans.
As Mark Lynch also pointed out on X, it is hard to take Mr. Gowdy’s statements in good faith after we all witnessed how he carried the water of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the congressional hearing into Benghazi, which he chaired.
Trey Gowdy slow-rolled the Benghazi Investigation.
— Mark Lynch (@MarkLynchSC) August 29, 2025
Effectively protecting Hillary Clinton's involvement in gun running to terrorists in Libya.
Sorry Trey, your opinion on second amendment is officially DISQUALIFIED. pic.twitter.com/SwmpcN7aM3
If Trey Gowdy was so dead set on preventing the loss of innocent life, he could have held those responsible for the deaths of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, but instead, he chose to curry favor with the political class in Washington, DC. This is the exact same mentality that Lindsey Graham has employed during his prolonged stay in the nation’s capital over the last three decades, and South Carolinians have had enough of career politicians from our state not standing up for the beliefs or interests of the Palmetto State.