Die from Culpeper dog arthritis Thank you mister Speaker. I rise for a point of personal privilege to ask the floor. So over the last several days, Mister Speaker there's been a lot of discussion about an open and honest debate with respect to school shootings, gun violence, gun control ET cetera, and open and honest debate. As I understand it is one that would rely on data facts. Evidence analysis, reason Logic, etcetera, etcetera and I'. Willing to have that debate, I think if we were going to look seriously at school, shootings and gun control, we would analyze things like why do all Mass shootings seem to take place in gun free zones wanted to be reasonable to test whether or not the efficacy of gun-free zones of actually achieved what they intended intent is we've start to look at most of the shooters come from broken homes. What sort of government policies have actually encouraged broken homes. You can look at Left-wing think things like the Brooking Institute that will actually say that some of it can be attributed to various cultural changes. In the sixties to include the abortion industry, you can look at more conservative leaning organizations that will say that the welfare state contributed significantly to dismantling the family as families became more and more dependent upon the government than they were mothers and fathers in the home, raising children. We can look at various status with those areas within the United States and around the world that have strict gun control measures and what their crime rights look like whether it's Chicago or New York City, Washington, DC, and others that have incredibly strict gun laws. And yet, for some reason hasn't seemed to stop the gun violence in this. Areas we can look at the analysis out of 530 - eight, which is considered more of a left of Center that analysis think tank where you have several Alyt now confirmed to the data that they were looking at not just in the United States, But in Canada, Great Britain and Australia that they were shocked that the data did not support what they thought gun control measures would actually achieve. We can look at the number of cases within the United States, where a gun has been used for self defense A hundred thousand uses to over close to a million uses within the United States. Now some organizations and some reporters only want to report on the ones where a gun was used, and it actually resulted in the death or maiming of the perpetrator. But if you look at the ones with the gun was used in the mere presence of the firearm actually persuaded a criminal from committing an act of violence, an act of rape, an act of murder. The number shoots up it skyrockets. So when people on this side talk about the importance of the Second Amendment, please understand it's not just some base philosophical conviction that we all have it is rooted in the idea that while we may be a post Enlightenment society, the vast majority of horrible atrocities that we've seen. In those post enlightenment societies has happened as a result of government systematically disarming citizens and claiming themselves to be the sole responsible party for their security and then turning on those same citizens and punishing them. That's the most egregious cases, but in the individual cases of self defense, that's why the people on this side of the aisle hold the Second Amendment in such high esteem because we honestly believe that you have an inherent right to defend yourself and your ability to defend yourself should not be excluded to to your. Firearms provides someone that is weaker and not as fast the ability to actually defend themselves from a stronger attacker. Some of the other things that we would look at and some of the things I would hope we would have bipartisan support for all of us agree that we need to make sure that our students are better protected when they go to schools. One of the things that we would look at is arming certain teachers Not every teacher, but a teacher that is comfortable with it is is former law enforcement is former military that is now in the classroom. Delegate Plum said yesterday that was ridiculous to consider Why Is it because the other side of this debate will only accept one quote unquote solution to this problem and that is. Apart or gutting the Second Amendment and I understand we're gonna mention just a couple of the bills that we're we're done this year right background checks getting rid of bump stocks. If you're wanting the other reason why we can't have an honest debate over this one is because quite frankly, I don't think any of us on this side of the aisle. believe you when you say that's all you wanna do. It'll be bump stocks it'll be background checks, and it will be different kind of background checks to register the guns. Then after that, it'll be we need to ban assault weapons. What's an assault weapons, something that looks scary, Then after That'll be semi-automatic rifles After that it'll be semi-automatic handguns, then it'll be revolvers shotguns Because when the policies fail to produce the results, you are promising to your constituents. you'll be back with more reasons on why we've got to infringe on Second Amendment rights. Other reason why it's really difficult to have an honest and open debate about this is because of this members of this body comparing members on this side of the aisle to Nazis. Members on the other side of the aisle, saying that when a 24 year-old teacher gets up and says that the host hold debate is between the Second Amendment or her life. A false dilemma. And quite frankly, one of the ones that I found the most offensive along with being compared to Nazis was being compared to segregationists. I just want to remind everybody when someone very quickly, It was not our party that supported slavery that fought women's suffrage, the rounded up tens of thousands of Asian Americans and put them in concentration camps that supported Jim Crow that supported segregation or supported Mass resistance. That wasn't our party. That was the Democrat Party. Now. I'm thrilled the Democrats no longer believe that and I don't believe that a single current member of this body who is a Democrat ever believed those things, But I would really appreciate it. If every time you wanna make a powerful point you don't. Descends the atrocities and the injustices that the Democratic Party perpetrated on others on to us. So if we wanna have an open and honest debate, I am all for that. let's do that, but it does start with a certain degree of mutual respect. It's it starts with a certain degree of not assuming that the only reason why we believe in the Second Amendment is because the NRA paid us off Well. if that's the sort of logic you wanna use why don't you go Take a look at how much money the NRA spends and how much money Planned Parenthood spends because when I get up here and I talk about abortion, I don't assume that you're all bought and paid for by Planned Parenthood. I don't assume you're horrible people because I disagree with you on a policy position. I assume you have deep convictions that we can have an argument and a debate about it, But if you're not willing to reci. That level of respect well don't be surprised when it becomes more difficult to talk about these things because there is a lot that we can do and there is a lot that we need to do to ensure the security of our children and our citizens. But yes, we're gonna have a problem with with So-called solutions, which infringe on people's liberty under the promise, the government will provide for their security. Because ultimately, in this last school shooting, we had a perfect example of government being engaged over 30 times and still failing to provide security for those students. Thank you Mister Speaker.