U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Republicans defeated an effort by Democrats to ban guns in committee hearings, a move that allows members of Congress to now carry firearms to committee hearings.
After heated debate, committee members defeated by a 25-14 vote a proposed rule by Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., prohibiting members from carrying firearms within the hearing rooms and conference rooms of the committee.
“Leftists need to move past political stunts like trying to strip Members of Congress of their Constitutional rights to protect themselves while they sit on the House Committee on Natural Resources and instead address the real issues facing this Committee, like western water, which is so important for rural Colorado,” said Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO,) who displayed an image of Huffman in a tin foil hat.
“Prohibiting Members from exercising their Second Amendment rights while they sit on the House Committee on Natural Resources would be a colossal waste of government resources. If this frivolous rule would have passed, would it have required Capitol Police to guard every entrance to this Committee room and ask them to stop and frisk every Member before entering for every hearing and every markup for the entire Congress?,” asked Boebert.
Democrats claimed without evidence the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S Capitol made them afraid of being shot by Republican lawmakers, a bizarre claim ridiculed by GOP members, who pointed to repeated actual shootings of members of Congress by liberals.
In 1954, four members of the left-wing Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, using the House Gallery as a sniper’s nest, opened fire onto the House floor and wounded five members of Congress.
In 2017 a liberal, radicalized by mainstream media claims about Republicans, opened fire on a group of Republican congressmen and senators practicing for a charity baseball game, wounding and nearly killing Majority Whip Steve Scalise.
Last year a liberal activist rushed a stage and nearly stabbed Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin, the GOP nominee for New York governor.
Boebert’s office also noted the 1998 shooting of a U.S. Capitol police officer by a gunman who then entered the office of the Majority Whip and the 2007 shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.
While firearms are practically illegal in the District of Columbia, there is a very narrow exception for members of Congress.
“Since 1967, the U.S. Capitol Police Board’s regulations have authorized Members of Congress to transport firearms on the Capitol Campus everywhere, except in three very specific locations: The House Floor, the Speaker’s Lobby, and the Rayburn Room. The Capitol Police Board permits Members to transport firearms for their personal protection everywhere else on the Capitol Campus, including all Committee rooms,” Boebert’s office notes in a statement.
Good. Why not?
All of us are equal although some are more equal than others,
If a person can’t be trusted to carry arms in Congressional hearings, that person shouldn’t be trusted to be a member of Congress at all.
If members of congress have a constitutional right to bear arms in the capital then “we the people” should have the same right.
Love it! 😀👍
F*ck democrats!
So incompetent they couldn’t fart sideways if someone bent em in half!