Jodey Arrington: “I have never been more proud to be a Red Raider than after that introduction, I can tell you that. I thank the…”

“I have never been more proud to be a Red Raider than after that introduction, I can tell you that. I thank the gentleman, my fellow freedom-loving Texan, Representative Gohmert, for yielding me the time. We will miss Representative Gohmert in this Chamber and the fight that he brought every day for the people in this people's House. I will lend my thoughts and sentiments on this issue of violence. As my colleague from Florida mentioned, human violence, sometimes perpetrated with guns, is a human problem, a problem of the soul, a problem of society, the degradation of our culture and our families. These are issues far deeper than legislation can reach, I can assure you. I understand, because I am human, that we want to do something and that while that may be a human response, as lawmakers, we should ask the question not can we do something symbolic, can we do something to make the American people feel good, because that is not going to save a single elementary school child. We have to ask the question: What can we do that will actually work, and what can we do that will also preserve the rights of our citizens to protect themselves? I think we often forget and fail to start this conversation with the genesis and the fundamental rationale for the Second Amendment. Our Founders knew good and well the abuses, the corruption, and the tyrannical force from a coercive central government.…”