On the recordDecember 5, 2019
40 Virginia localities have declared themselves ``Second Amendment sanctuaries,'' resolving to support the Constitution and stand against infringements on the Second Amendment. Across my district, thousands of citizens are rallying outside the meetings of their local government to show their strong support for the rights of gun owners. Virginia has always been a cradle of constitutional rights. There is no divide between our rural and urban populations. All of us want to defend our rights as citizens of the United States of America. I represent the same district that James Madison represented in the first Congress. He understood America's rights to bear arms when he wrote it into our Constitution. I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, and I am proud to stand with the people who are speaking up for their constitutional rights and for the Commonwealth of Virginia. James Madison would be proud. I know I am. ____________________
