Texas’ Louie Gohmert defends gun rights in emotional outburst

In an emotional outburst throughout a House gun reform listening to Thursday, Texas congressman Louie Gohmert pushed again in opposition to criticism from Democrats and delivered a passionate rebuttal in protection of gun rights.

“How dare you! You think that we don’t have hearts? It’s just that when we look at the things you are doing and you are trying to do to America, we’ve seen the carnage,” Gohmert mentioned, in keeping with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “For heaven’s sake.”

The Republican who represents a lot of East Texas, together with Tyler, Longview and Marshall, was antagonized by earlier remarks from California congressman Eric Swalwell, the newspaper reported.

Swalwell questioned whether or not some Republicans have been extra involved with holding onto uninhibited gun rights than ensuring youngsters are secure from gun violence in faculties.

“If you are not here for the children, why don’t you go to the funeral of the killer?” the Democrat requested in the wake of the Uvalde mass taking pictures in which a gunman killed 21, together with 19 children at an elementary college. Several extra mass shootings, together with 4 folks murdered by a gunman at a Tulsa hospital on Wednesday, have occurred for the reason that Uvalde kon May 24.

Gohmert, who joined the listening to through Zoom, objected to Swalwell’s characterization.

“When people on the other side of the aisle come in and accuse Republicans of being complicit in murder, and that we put our right to kill over other’s rights to live, to infer by rhetorical, supposed questions, ‘Who are you here for?’ [that] we must be here for the gunmen, is an outrage,” Gohmert mentioned.