Normally, Mother’s Day is occasion for warm, love-filled greetings; and even peace advocacy. Pro-gun activist Mike Lynn of Memphis, Tennessee, however, seems to have a different idea about how the holiday works.

When you work in the field of gun violence prevention, you get used to angry and threatening correspondence from the other side, but the voicemail Lynn recently left for CSGV executive director Josh Horwitz nonetheless stands out as particularly grotesque and shocking. His bizarre rant seems to fantasize about the rape of everyone in Horwitz’s family—women and men, adults and children alike.

After we initially posted Lynn’s voicemail online, he flooded us with apologetic calls, indicating his message was “anti-rape” and had nothing to do with guns. That’s a bit hard to square with his violent imagery and statements like, “The gun is a right, as in free speech is a right. I assure you. This country is well on the way to correcting itself…as we attempted to do in 1861, 1860.”

For the record, CSGV has never published any statement or meme saying, “Rape only lasts a few minutes, but gun violence lasts a lifetime.” Violence against women—which is frequently perpetrated by armed men whom they know personally—is something we treat with the utmost seriousness.