On the recordJune 8, 2022
Madam Speaker, I have heard over and over again we ought to harden our schools. We ought to let every teacher have a gun. One question that needs to be asked as that argument goes forward: Why? Why do we need to do that? We need to do that because an 18-year-old was able to buy two AR-15s, go to the school in Uvalde, and shoot up all of the students and teachers--19. That is presumably why we have to harden our schools. Maybe it is time for us to come to the reality that it is time for us to pass commonsense gun safety legislation. This particular piece of legislation does just that. It doesn't take away the Second Amendment rights. What it does is to provide every American with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and not having to worry about whether their school has been hardened sufficiently to prevent an 18- year-old with two military-style weapons to enter that school. It is time for us to act. Pass this legislation.
