John Rutherford: “I thank the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gohmert), my good friend, for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise today to talk about…”

“I thank the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gohmert), my good friend, for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise today to talk about a major problem facing our communities, and that is human violence. I have four children and four beautiful grandchildren who are school-aged. Madam Speaker, I have to tell you, when I turned on the television set and saw what was going on in Uvalde, Texas, my heart sank. I saw my grandchildren in the faces of those children that I saw fleeing from that horrible violence that was being conducted that afternoon. It is too often that we turn on our TV sets and see images of schools locked down and grieving communities. Unfortunately, as I mentioned, we saw that unfold in Uvalde, Texas. Yet, every time tragedy strikes, we hear the same conversation, calls for bans on firearms, universal background checks, and red flag laws. That is how we spent the last two days in this Chamber, talking about partisan bills that are, number one, redundant--a lot of these laws already exist--or number two, they are laws that will infringe on the rights of law-abiding American citizens. Ultimately, they won't fix the problem. Madam Speaker, the problem is not guns. It is not gun violence. The problem is human violence. When I was sheriff, I used to explain to my community occasionally, when gun violence--as they would call it--would erupt, and they would ask me to talk about it. Madam Speaker, I would tell the gentleman, Mr.…”