A politician in Australia has been criticised online after posting a campaign video in which he shoots dead two opponents - just days after a gunman killed 49 people at a Florida nightclub.
Bob Katter uploaded the video, which features two men wearing shirts for Australia's major political parties, the conservative Liberal Party and centre-left Labor Party, putting up an 'Australia for sale' placard, to his social media channels.
Seconds later the video cuts to a smiling Mr Katter, blowing smoke from the barrel of a gun as the camera pans down to the two men apparently lying dead on the ground.
But the timing of the ad, just three days after gunman Omar Mateen shot dead 49 people at the Pulse gay club in Orlando, drew sharp rebukes on social media.
One user wrote: "What was Bob Katter thinking? The most distasteful act of the campaign, particularly in the wake of the Orlando massacre."
Mr Katter, whose minor Katter's Australia Party focuses on issues related to rural Australia, denied that he was attempting to be deliberately controversial with the video.
"I repeat to you, that I get in every night at midnight and with all due respects, I watch a movie if I switch the television on, not that I do and I do not read the newspapers, haven't read the newspapers in ages," Mr Katter told Network Seven's Sunrise programme on Thursday when asked why he didn't know there was a shooting in Orlando.
"But, you know, that's not the issue, that's not the issue, see how you're trying to steer it into political correctness, my friend, and 'Australia not for sale' that's not a message we carry."
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