Sheila Jackson Lee: “What is really frightening is that parents who are outside these doors are asking the question: What are we doing?…”

“What is really frightening is that parents who are outside these doors are asking the question: What are we doing? {time} 1430 I would say the families in Buffalo, where the theme was replacement theory, or these little babies, where is your heart in a reasonable bill that prohibits the sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of semiautomatic assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition feeding devices subject to grandfathering provisions but, in actuality, allows the possession of any semiautomatic assault weapon lawfully possessed on the date of enactment? How much fairer can we get? I only ask my colleagues to stop pontificating to us like we know less than you when it comes, as a civilian, that there are weapons of war that our military has, that there are assault-style weapons that are in the hands of citizens on the streets of this country, and that they adapt the same munitions. The individual in Uvalde had 350 pounds. Madam Speaker, let us vote for the rule and the underlying bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to please direct their remarks to the Chair.”