Retired NFL kicker Jay Feely sparked outrage after he tweeted a photo of himself armed with a gun between his daughter and her prom date.
The tweet read, “Wishing my beautiful daughter and her date a great time at prom #BadBoys.”
Wishing my beautiful daughter and her date a great time at prom #BadBoys pic.twitter.com/T5JRZQYq9e
— Jay Feely (@jayfeely) April 22, 2018
The photo received backlash online, with many people saying that Feely supported gun violence.
The prom picture I posted was obviously intended to be a joke. My Daughter has dated her boyfriend for over a year and they knew I was joking.
I take gun safety seriously (the gun was not loaded and had no clip in) and I did not intend to be insensitive to that important issue— Jay Feely (@jayfeely) April 22, 2018
“I think people are reacting to this in a way that is overly sensitive and they just need to relax,” Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich said on Sunday. – READ MORE
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