 How dare you You think we don't have hearts No, I don't actually That was representative Louie Gohmert at a house judiciary committee hearing on gun reform And I'm gonna play more of his unhinged rant for you in a moment, but I want to show you what set him off Specifically it was these comments from representative Eric Swalwell. So who are you here for our kids or the killers? I'm here for people like Alex Navarro She's a mom's demand action leader in the San Francisco Bay Area and last week after I convened a meeting among my Constituents and people like Fred Guttenberg and dr. Joe sacran an emergency room physician at Johns Hopkins Alex Navarro told my constituents That her six-year-old daughter After you've all day after seeing the images behind me Said to her mom What picture are you gonna use for me? What picture are you going to use for me? That's what children are asking their parents across America because they don't believe they're gonna come out alive What picture are you going to use for me? We're supposed to be the protectors. We're supposed to be here for the kids And so to my colleagues today who flew in town came to work Got ready to argue. My question is why did you come here for at all? Why did you come here at all? If you're not here for the children Why don't you go to the funeral of the killer? Because that's the only place where the killer is being celebrated We're here to get things done and protect our kids. What's your job? I yield back And he is exactly right Democrats have got to remind Republicans at every chance that they get that they Cultivated this environment of fear where we have to fear if children will be slaughtered at schools Where we have to fear if a gunman is gonna walk into a movie theater or a grocery store and kill us They've done this They're a fusel to take even the most basic common-sense measures to reduce gun violence that most of the country supports has Specifically led to this moment and blood is on their hands and they need to be reminded of that But when you remind them of what they've done well, they react in the way that Louis Gomert reacted take a look to infer by Rhetorical supposed questions. Who are you here for? We must be here for the gunman is an outrage How dare you 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 Spare me the faux outrage you fucking piece of shit if you actually cared about dead children You would take action you would have taken action after Sandy Hook and it's not just about you know Caring for children when it comes to gun control caring for children with regard to health care food education You don't give a shit you don't care about dead children and he doesn't want to live with the Reality that he and his party has created for all of us. So what does he do? He lashes out Again if you wanted to take action You had numerous opportunities to do just that but he won't even do the bare minimum Let me remind you about Louie Gohmert's voting record within the last four years He's had four chances to support universal background checks that 90% of Americans support and he voted against them every Single time but don't worry. He's gonna tell you he took action in 2018 by voting for the stop school violence act But what specifically is entailed with the stop school violence act the so-called a stop school violence act? Well more guns in school Put armed guards in school Potentially, you know give teachers The ability to have guns in schools. Hey Louie remind me what happened when we had good guys With guns show up at Uvaldi. They waited around for an hour while kids were being slaughtered So the solutions that he supported in the past aren't actually solutions Republicans will talk about everything but guns. We've seen this countless times. It's a Perhaps legalization of cannabis. This is what Laura Ingram is now saying. It's a lack of God in schools Mental health its doors if you ask Greg Abbott and Ted Cruz They don't want to address the actual problem, which is guns now He tried to do a little bit of a what about ism with regard to Democrats were in control of big cities and have higher murder rates Well, this is not necessarily a good thing to bring up when you're against gun control because ask yourself Louie Why is the murder rates so high in these areas? Could it possibly be to due to a lack of federal gun reform and even if you know a city wants to take action? Republicans at every single level across the country have tried to stop them And in fact another Democrat Mary Gay Scanlon pointed this out I do want to respond first to mr. Gomeran I'm sorry that he and many of his colleagues didn't think it was important enough to be here today But I did want to respond to his allegation that Philadelphia's homicide rate No, I will not Gentle lady does not use my gentle lady does not yield the time is I waited I wanted to Gentle lady is not yield I wanted to respond to mr. Gomer it's allegation that Philadelphia's homicide rate is the fault of Democratic leadership in that city Apparently he doesn't understand that the Commonwealth's Republican legislature For decades has blocked city leadership from passing the types of common-sense gun safety laws We are considering today so to the broader question like most Americans I am Sickened and sick to death of the gun carnage we experience in this country every single day And she's right about that now even if Republicans in that particular situation weren't blocking gun reform the reason why Federal gun control is necessary is because if you live in a state where you can't get a gun Well, you can simply cross state lines and purchase a gun in a state with more lax gun control laws So this is why you have to homogenize every single state make sure that the laws are consistent So crazy people don't get the guns But Louie Gomer he doesn't even support the bare minimum In fact, he's voted to support gun manufacturers the actual makers of these devices of deaths So it's just it's ridiculous But yet he's mad when the Democratic Party reminds him of the blood that's on his hands Ridiculous now. Look, let me be clear here. Both parties have blood on their hands in different respects I think that members of the Democratic Party who don't support Medicare for all and let people die due to a lack of health insurance They're guilty of deaths to Republicans are also guilty of this to be clear when nobody in Congress does anything About the housing crisis or food insecurity. They're responsible for those deaths as well But when it comes to gun reform This lies squarely on the shoulders of Republicans who have blocked every single measure That could make even a small difference Now since we're talking about Louie Gomer You might have noticed that he was partaking in this meeting via zoom And that's because currently Congress is supposed to be on vacation and Republicans didn't want to hold this meeting So they decided to phone it in they had to be there right because they had to espouse the talking points of their donors But you know, they decided to phone this in and I'm glad that Mary pointed that out as well But you know, I've got to talk about Louie Gomer more broadly speaking because you know seeing him overreact to that That's necessary because this is somebody who was a very dumb person and that's not an ad hominem attack I'm not just saying that to be mean. He literally Probably has one of the lowest IQs in the country This is the same individual who accused Obama of wanting to bring back the Ottoman Empire And that's not even his greatest hit Louie Gomer recommended a way to address climate change, you know Rather than cutting greenhouse gas emissions He literally asked someone at NASA if we could change the orbit of the fucking moon in order to address climate change He said I was informed by the immediate past director of NASA that they found that the moon's orbit is changing slightly And so is the earth's orbit around the Sun. We know there's significant solar flare activity He said and so is there anything that the National Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management? That's not BLM by the way black lives matter It's Bureau of Land Management can do to change the course of the moon's orbit or the earth's orbit around the Sun Obviously that would have profound effects on our climate He's so fucking stupid I'm genuinely impressed that he's made it this far in life. How does he like 60 70 75? The fact that he's survived this long is genuinely impressive to me like there have been multiple times I'm assuming throughout his life where he nearly died By forgetting to breathe spontaneously or by wandering into traffic not really realizing what he's doing or bumping You know his head and causing himself to get a concussion by tying his shoelaces together The fact that he's made it this long is genuinely impressive and the fact that he's a member of Congress Should let everyone who doubts themselves realize that they are capable of anything if Louie Gohmert can make it to Congress You can do anything you want to so look he's mad But I don't care he should be mad because he did this it's on him The blood is on his hands and he has to live with himself every single day so Louie die mad