Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs’ press secretary ignited an uproar with a tweet blasting “transphobes” with a picture of an armed girl, a picture posted the identical day that six college students and workers at a Christian college had been killed by a transgender shooter.

Josselyn Berry, spokeswoman for the Democratic governor, posted a Monday night tweet with the caption “Us after we see transphobes” and a gif of a lady brandishing two handguns — a publish considered as shockingly tone-deaf.

The unidentified girl within the picture is actress Gena Rowlands and comes from her 1980 film “Gloria.”

The Arizona Freedom Caucus responded by calling for Ms. Berry to be “fired instantly.”

“Lower than 12 hours after the tragic capturing in Nashville by a deranged transgender activist @katiehobbs’ Press Secretary requires capturing individuals Democrats disagree with,” the caucus tweeted.

“Calling for violence like that is un-American & by no means acceptable,” the group added.

Amongst these shocked by the picture was Christian conservative radio host Erick Erickson.

“Are you able to think about the media response if a Republican’s press secretary had finished what Governor Katie Hobbs’ press secretary did right this moment after a mass capturing of kids in Nashville?” requested Mr. Erickson on his Substack web page. “Josselyn Berry is Hobbs’s present Press Secretary paid by Arizona taxpayers.”

Different feedback included: “Sooner or later quickly, @joss_berry will remorse having tweeted this. What a ghoulish tweet,” and “she is brazenly pushing violence on Twitter,” and “That is gonna value her a job.”

“Josselyn Berry, the girl operating @katiehobbs’s comms, despatched this risk out following the homicide (hate crime) of six harmless Christians by a trans activist,” tweeted the Kari Lake Conflict Room. “This message is reprehensible & deserves bipartisan condemnation.”

Republican Kari Lake misplaced to Ms. Hobbs within the November election.

The Washington Instances has reached out to the Arizona governor’s workplace for remark.

The tweet was a part of a dialog that started Monday night with Ms. Berry condemning “transphobic” progressives, usually feminists who condemn transgenderism as an erasure of girls.

“Should you work within the progressive neighborhood and are transphobic, you’re not progressive. Interval. Finish of story. It’s not arduous to grasp however [your] bigotry masquerading as feminism completely is,” she mentioned.

Somebody responded: “Unsure these transphobic-from-the-left posers know who they’re messing with,” prompting Ms. Berry’s tweet of the gun-toting girl.

Nashville police recognized the shooter who killed three youngsters and three staffers on the Covenant College as Audrey Hale, 28, later saying that she recognized as male. The suspect was shot and killed by police about 14 minutes after the primary 911 name.