"Are you here for our kids, or are you here for the killers?"
Congressman Eric Swalwell confronted supporters of gun rights in the House ...
Congressman Eric Swalwell confronted supporters of gun rights in the House ...
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00:00What picture are you going to use for me?
00:02That's what children are asking their parents across America because they don't believe they're going to come out alive
00:09Are you here for our kids or are you here for the killers?
00:14Because if you were here for the kids
00:16You would do all you could to protect the next school shooting that's about to happen and we know what's going to happen in America
00:24You would vote to raise the age on purchasing an assault rifle
00:28You would vote to ban high-capacity magazines
00:31You would vote to require safe storage and you would vote to address ghost guns, which are ravaging communities across America
00:38But if you're here for the killers, you would do everything to make it easier for the next school shooting to happen and
00:45Mr. Jordan to say we are trying to dramatically change the country dramatically change the country if
00:51Trying to make sure that no more kids are put in the ground with a Superman coffin means dramatically change the country
01:00guilty
01:01That's why we're here. Kids are going in the ground today and you call that trying to dramatically change the country
01:07Why aren't you trying to dramatically change the number of dead kids going into the ground? Mr. Jordan?
01:13Who are you here for the kids or the killers?
01:18My Republican colleagues are here for carnival games
01:21They say it's about mental health. Okay, we try and fund mental health. They vote against it. They say it's about schools
01:26We try and fund the schools fund the teachers they vote against it. They say it's about policing
01:32300 million dollars in the American rescue plan for community policing
01:35They all voted against it and then they tell us that we're in a country where you have violent video games
01:40mental health problems
01:42Schools that can't be secured and too many gun-free zones and their solution to that is to put more of the most dangerous weapons
01:49Into that mix that's insane. So who are you here for our kids or the killers?
01:56I'm here for people like Alex Navarro
01:59She's a mom's demand-action leader in the San Francisco Bay Area
02:03Alex Navarro told my constituents
02:06That her six-year-old daughter
02:09After you've all day after seeing the images behind me
02:13Said to her mom
02:15What picture are you going to use for me?
02:19What picture are you going to use for me?
02:22That's what children are asking their parents across America because they don't believe they're going to come out alive
02:30What picture are you going to use for me?
02:33We're supposed to be the protectors. We're supposed to be here for the kids
02:40And so to my colleagues today who flew in town
02:43Came to work
02:45Got ready to argue. My question is why did you come here for at all? Why did you come here at all?
02:51If you're not here for the children
02:56Why don't you go to the funeral of the killer because that's the only place where the killer is being celebrated
03:01We're here to get things done and protect our kids