At a U.S. Senate hearing, Texans’ emotions were running high. On Thursday, nine days after a gunman opened fire inside an elementary school in Uvalde, a House hearing on gun violence devolved into personal assaults and finger-pointing.
The remarks were made at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on a package of bills aimed at tightening gun control measures in the United States, including raising the age of purchase for semi-automatic rifles to 21 years old and limiting high-capacity magazines.
Republican Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert went off on Democrats in an emotional response after, he believed, they were insinuating the Republicans sided with murderers.
Here’s what Gohmert said:
“I don’t think that it’s very effective for the children to have people on the other side of the aisle come in and accuse Republicans of being complicit in murder and that we put our right to kill over others’ right to live, to infer by rhetorical supposed questions, who are you here for, we must be here for the gunman, is an outrage.”
“How dare you. You think we don’t have hearts?”
He went on to blame Democrats for gun violence in several major cities.
Gohmert said that Democrats are in charge of America’s crime-ridden communities. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (R-Pa.) later stated that Pennsylvania’s Republican legislative had “for decades prohibited local leadership from implementing the type of common-sense gun safety regulations we are debating today.”
“Are you here for the murderers in Chicago? In Philadelphia and these other major cities because you’re wanting to do nationally what is being done by Democrats in those big cities?” he asked.
“We care about people. We care about their lives, and lives have been so trivialized. We care deeply. How dare you. How dare you, you arrogant people, attributing murder to those of us that want to do things to stop it. Because we’ve seen what your ideas do, they create more murder,” he added.
Sources: Conservativebrief, Yahoo, Courthousenews