- The Judicial Commission of the House of Representatives is holding a hearing on bills to prevent gun violence on Thursday.
- The hearing became a guerrilla exercise, with Democrats and Republicans discussing gun restrictions.
- Participating at a distance, GOP spokesman Greg Stube said the proposed restrictions while waving weapons.
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In the midst of a hearing Thursday on new legislation to prevent gun violence proposed by Democrats in Congress, Republican Greg Stubb of Florida, a Republican, spoke remotely and spoke out against proposed changes to gun laws while brandishing various weapons he owns.
The Florida Republican, who apparently participated in the hearing from his home office via video, claims that any of his weapons will be banned under the proposed changes to gun laws.
At one point, he showed a Sig Sauer P365XL pistol, which he said he carried “every day” to “protect himself, his family, his wife, his home.”
“I hope the gun is not loaded,” said Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democratic MP from Texas, interrupting Stubb.
“I’m in my house, I can do whatever I want with my weapons,” he replied.
Stube then began comparing gun restrictions and homicide rates in various U.S. states and cities, including Maryland, Washington, D.C., Cook County, Illinois and his home state of Florida.
“Will the gentleman give in to questions?” asked commission chairman Jerry Nadler of New York, repeating himself five times.
“No, I’m trying to clear my mind in the remaining two minutes,” Stube said. “The homicide rate was higher – now let me start over and I hope you give me back my 10 or 15 seconds you just took.”
The guerrilla controversy during the hearing – which was scheduled in response to last week’s shooting at a primary school in Uwalde, Texas and Democrats’ pressure to tackle gun violence – underscores the difficulty of passing gun legislation, especially on such accused guerrilla issues. and with an evenly divided Senate.
This week, House Democrats unveiled the “Protect Our Children” Act, which includes various provisions, including raising the minimum age for the purchase of semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21, banning the import, sale, production, transfer or possession of high-performance rifles ammunition magazines and various other settings.
In addition, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told an anti-violence event on Wednesday that the House would vote to ban weapons of attack next week.
But the bill is not expected to be approved by the Senate or even necessarily voted on.
Instead, a group of senators led by Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Republican Sen. John Cornin of Texas are trying to reach a more modest agreement, which could potentially reach the 60 votes needed to pass legislation in the upper house.
Murphy wrote to Fox News on Thursday, trying to reassure conservatives that he was not interested in large-scale gun restrictions, writing that there was no “secret agenda to take away people’s weapons” and that his “agenda was not radical.” . “
“To find a common language, I will have to agree to a smaller set of reforms than I would prefer,” Murphy wrote. “I am ready to accept a gradual change, such as tightening our system for verifying the past and helping states pass laws to allow law enforcement agencies to temporarily confiscate weapons from individuals who pose a threat to themselves or others.”
“For me, the only thing we can’t do is nothing,” he added.
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