Matt Gaetz: “Maybe someone should have sent an active shooter alert to police in Uvalde. Wait. They had the alert. They were in a…”

“Maybe someone should have sent an active shooter alert to police in Uvalde. Wait. They had the alert. They were in a school building with an active shooter and didn't take action. America is at her best when she encourages her citizens to have safe, responsible gun ownership. But under Democrats, instead, we have a government that instead wants to stigmatize and scare people about guns. Mr. Speaker, imagine you are at a concert with 5,000 people and everyone gets an alert on their phone ``active shooter'' because six blocks away there was a gunfire that went off. Maybe it was an accident. Maybe it was a tragedy. Would that make the circumstance safer? Of course not. It would lead to stampede, tragedy, hysteria, mistake, perhaps even more death. This bill is like yelling ``fire'' in a movie theater, except the fire is in another movie theater across the street. The bill makes no mention of distance requirements. Will we be notified of any active shootings within 1 mile, 5 miles, 10 miles? What is an active shooter? A drive-by in an inner city? A spousal murder in a suburb? If you live in or near Democrat-run cities, it sounds like your phone will be buzzing off the hook. Some of our cities have shootings every day where multiple people are injured, and often this happens in the jurisdictions with the most intense and liberty-depriving gun control.…”