There are hearings going on in Congress right now over the possibility of passing
some sort of gun control and they've already gotten heated.
Take a look at this interaction that Representative Matt Gates had.
>> They think that the answer is fewer guns, and that is what is creating a lot
of discomfort among our fellow Americans who cherish their guns and
cherish their Second Amendment rights and have actually committed no.
>> They cherish their children, Mr. Gates?
>> You know what, their children aren't the ones at risk as a consequence of.
>> [CROSSTALK] >> All children in America are at
risk wrong.
>> It's not law abiding gun owners David.
>> Were those children in Uvalde >> [CROSSTALK]
>> Well, is obviously objectively wrong.
Everyone's children are at risk because guns are ever,
it doesn't matter if your parent happens to be law abiding.
The law is set up in a way that might benefit them, but it also
benefits potential mass shooters and Matt Gates can try to like pooh-pooh that or
act all aggrieved when someone points it out.
But it is true and Matt Gates, they're like basically all of the Republicans,
is there at these hearings to try to stop anything from happening.
The status quo that results in mass shootings literally
every day in the US is a status quo that they will fight to defend.
We've got more commentary from Matt Gates but
I wanna give you a chance to jump in on that.
>> Just real quick on this.
You know that it's a nonsense argument because just take out guns put in nukes.
We gave everybody nukes or we allowed everybody to buy nukes and yeah,
a whole bunch of them went off and hundreds of millions of people died,
but it wasn't the gun abiding nuke owners that did it.
>> [LAUGH] >> So obviously everybody should have
nukes because the gun abiding ones are perfectly good, end of argument.
>> Yeah, look, there's not much that you can say about Matt Gates.
Matt Gates doesn't already say and watching it and
hearing him speaks bigger volumes than I could ever say about the fool.
>> Yeah, it's such a weird choice to use the word cherished in this particular,
we're in the wake of all of the kid funerals and
you're talking about cherishing your shotgun or your rightful or whatever.
That's a choice at that point, it's a choice.
Okay, I wanna play a little bit more of what he had to say and
in this video is gonna get into two different topics.
I think both we need to weigh on them.
One is an area where he would like to see more guns and the other is him
inadvertently making an absolutely horrible argument against gun control.
>> I sort of like congressman Nazis legislation that maybe everyone who's
a voter or on their way to vote, ought to have the opportunity to carry
a firearm to ensure that they're not subject to any intimidation.
We're not making school shootings less likely because we're not appropriately
tailoring the remedy to the problem.
We've got this ghost guns and gun tracking legislation up today.
Were any of these school shootings, running these ghost guns?
And so it seems to be sort of gun control in search of a tragedy to lash onto.
>> Okay, so the idea that the way to fight back against intimidation of voters is
to have more assault weapons at the polls.
This is an interesting theory, but I really love that second bit.
Cuz what he said is it doesn't make sense to regulate ghost guns because all of
these shootings aren't being done by ghost guns.
And then mentally he sort of just trails off from there but I have to then say,
well, so
then shouldn't we regulate the sort of guns that are being used in the shooting?
They're not ghost guns, that's totally true.
Most 18 year old school shooters don't go out and get ghost guns, but
a lot of them do go out and get AR15.
So by your attempt at logic shouldn't that be the thing that we're discussing
possibly regulating?
I'm feeling it's not gonna be in favor of it.
>> There's two different issues here.
One is related to intimidation of Democratic voters.
We covered this in a different context yesterday.
There was a memo that was leaked to politico where in Michigan
the Republican Party is training people to become poll workers in democratic
areas and then to challenge as many votes as possible to gum up the works and
basically cheat.
Until recently, the Republican Party could not coordinate with poll workers
because they had in the past used them to intimidate democratic voters.
They would literally send in people with guns to democratic areas to
intimidate them.
The Supreme Court blocked the Republican Party from doing this all the way to 2020.
Then they constructed the new Conservative Supreme Courts, intimidate anyone,
you like, block any votes you like in the Democratic areas.
Now Matt Gates in Congress in the midst of a gun control hearing says, hey, maybe we
should bring our guns to the polling stations, maybe in Democratic areas.
So that's a brown shirt move.
That is how fascists intimidate the opposition,
maybe there could be significant consequences for you if you vote etc.
So is he in search of a problem that he talked about later?
Is there a problem of democrats bringing guns to Republican areas and threatening
them to know this, even the Republicans haven't made up a charge like that.
It's literally never happened, okay?
So he's saying, I'm bringing the guns so that we don't get intimidated, okay?
But now back to the main issue of guns.
So there's no question that we have the least gun control on the planet,
that's a fact.
There's no question that we have the most guns per capita on the planet,
that's a fact and it's not even close.
And there's no question that we have the most massacres, mass shootings and
gun desk on the planet, not close, right?
So is it the guns?
Yes, it is definitively the guns.
Everything else is an excuse, okay?
Well and that same Matt Gates said, no, no,
you can use AR15s for different things like sports shooting.
Are you having fun while our kids are being murdered?
In self defense really you're gonna shoot an AR15 inside your own house, and
maybe hit your own kids?
Cuz, there's no way Matt Gates knows how to control that gun or
where the hell he's shooting in a situation like that.
And then finally just to rub it in like ha ha, I'm kidding,
I actually enjoyed these massacres.
He said also for a hog shooting.
In other words, we're messing with you.
We don't care about the massacres of your children at all.
>> And by the way, these AR15s leave these children not to be graphic,
unrecognizable.
They're shot so badly that you needed DNA to identify these kids in Uvalde.
So this is beyond just a feral pig is gonna come into my yard.
These are killing kids to the point of not being able to be recognized,
not knowing who they were.
It's the most tragic and disgusting thing and we're just allowing it to go on, and
to Matt Gates, ghost guns are used in shootings all the time.
They've been killing kids this year, all year long.
They are a big part of teen suicide, which may not be a massacre Congressman Gates,
but they are part of what is going on with guns and easy access to them,
and so it all does matter.
>> Yeah, well, we seem to all agree that they don't seem to care enough about
stopping this violence.
And that sort of criticism has been coming at the Republicans, since Uvalde,
since before Uvalde, we've had many mass shootings.
Even since then, it's constant and
they appear to be starting to feel the pressure from that.
Take a look at Representative Louie Gohmert responded to these criticisms.
>> You think we don't have hearts?
It's just that when we look at the things that you're doing and
you're trying to do to America, we've seen the carnage.
I mean, for heaven's sake, let's take example,
Democrats control the major cities that have the worst murder rates, that's right.
Your ideas have been shown to get people killed.
>> Okay, so that's not even literally true.
That's not actually how it works out at the city level.
But even if it was, you would then still have to explain what is it that you think
Louie Gohmert, those Democratic mayors or City Councils are doing,
that's leading to the deaths now in these Democratic cities.
He would say they have gun control, okay,
well then make a logical argument as to why that results in more gun based murder.
We will actually explain why making it so that 18 year olds can buy ARs
does lead to more 18 year olds using ARs to kill people.
So we have demonstrated that linkage.
He is in to the limited capacity that he has mentally to form a counter argument,
he's doing his best.
But clearly they get that the country is turning against them and
sees who is standing in the way of some sort of reform and
who is trying to stop these shootings from actually happening again.
>> So, Democratic politician in Philadelphia said actually we're trying to
pass gun control, but the Republicans in the state legislature won't let us, so
it's literally your fault.
But beyond that, he says, do you think we're heartless?
My resounding answer is yes, definitely.
I don't think you care about those dead kids at all.
Not 1%, I don't come crying to me about Republicans feelings.
Okay, I care a lot more about those dead kids in Uvalde, Texas and
by the way in Sandy Hook and everywhere else.
I care about all the dead people because of Republicans.
I don't care about your goddamn crying, okay?
Republicans don't want any gun control.
Lack of gun control is definitely leading to the mass shootings.
Every person who has ever studied it, every fact points to that,
it's super obvious.
We have the same video games, the same mental health problems as Japan does,
Northern Europe does, everywhere else in the world does,
sub Saharan Africa does, but they don't have massacres like we do.
Yes, nowhere else in the world are there massacres like this and yes,
it's definitely because of the Republicans and
yes people like Louie Gohmert are 100% heartless and don't mind your kids
dying at all as long as they get to brag to their vicious republican voters.
Don't worry, I didn't let them take your hobby away.
They're sick, that's you, Louie Gohmert, you're a sick,
sick man, stop butchering our kids.
Am I clear enough?
>> All right, let's go to Swalwell because Swalwell was actually and for
the first time, honestly in my life,
a democrat in politics actually stood up for us, let's go to his clip.
>> 19 children are dead, and so to my Republican colleagues, I ask,
who are you here for, are you here for our kids or are you here for the killers?
And Mr. Jordan's to say,
we are trying to dramatically change the country dramatically change the country?
If trying to make sure that no more kids are put in the ground with
a superman coffin means dramatically change the country, guilty.
That's why we're here.
>> You should watch the whole five minute speech that Swalwell did,
it was fantastic.
And I'm not playing around, I haven't seen any like a person in the squad or
Bernie or anyone give as tough as speech as Swalwell did and
all the republicans caught feelings over, I can't believe he's telling the truth.
You're not democrats aren't supposed to fight back.
They were furious that for the first time in our lifetimes a democrat
had actually fought back against republicans.
Yes, stop trying to hit him and God damn it hit him already.
So thank you Eric Swalwell, thank you, we appreciate it.
By the way just super random note,
Swalwell has endorsed Michael Shore, so God bless.
>> My biggest congressional endorsement means the world to me because my
campaign is being based a lot on gun control.
I'm pushing back on the rights that they're trying to mess with on the other
side, not just the rights that they're trying to take back, but
the rights that they're trying to protect, that are killing our kids.
So I couldn't be more proud of having that endorsement.
>> And the only thing I'll add to in terms of who they're there for like, so
we know that they're standing in the way of gun control.
Let's also remember how they treat people who either have done or
threatened to do gun violence like like George Zimmerman became a little
celebrity on their side Kyle Rittenhouse is still making appearances.
I saw that he was speaking at real America's voice had live coverage of him
at the republican young women's leadership conference Kyle Rittenhouse.
They only know who he is because he killed people with a gun and they love him.
What about those wackos that stood outside of their house and
pointed assault weapons at peaceful protesters.
They love people who commit acts of gun violence.
>> And they want those people to run for office in Missouri, and they did.
>> I did I don't think they didn't they didn't do it but they got to get better.
>> They did, exactly, they were at the RNC.
>> Yeah they got invited to the convention, the Bundies are heroes.
You kill somebody with a gun and you're gonna be a Republican hero,
you're gonna make money for the rest of your life on vicious right wingers going
you killed somebody, you want to go black lives matter protest to kill someone.
Boy here's the money you take my I'll pay you next time.
Remember if you kill someone, I don't agree with I'll pay you next time.
That's what the right wing voters think so they're vicious.
Thank you Eric Swalwell for being the first person to fight back courageously.
We'll put the link down below to his entire speech because his speech
was vicious towards republicans and
I say goddamn time about time that someone was an actual Democratic congress person.
I said yes, those are the bad guys, and said it very clearly.
>> I'll interrupt to say Chris Murphy,
the senator from Connecticut has also said it on the other side, on the Senate side,
in many ways and it's been a great voice on this issue for a long time.
Obviously senator from Connecticut where they had the thing that we thought could
never happen again until a couple of weeks ago.
>> And just to make sure that you're ready for what's gonna happen next week.
I mean it was already these hearings were super emotional,
people were yelling at each other.
Well, we found out earlier today that next week survivors and
parents of the shootings in Vivaldi and Buffalo will be testifying at the hearing.
So you can only imagine what it's gonna be like, including by the way, they're gonna
have testimony from Miah Cerrillo, 1/4 grade student at Robb Elementary.
A lot of people know her story, she was the student who had to cover herself in
her friend's blood and play dead to not be killed herself.
She will be doing giving testimony at the hearing.
So I hope that the democrats are just as fired up when it comes to next week.