While speaking to reporters on Wednesday about the Congressional baseball practice shooting, Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL), who was a witness to the shooting, responded to a question on whether the shooting changed his position on gun control by stating, “no, I’m not changing my position on any of the rights that we enjoy as Americans.”
A reporter asked Brooks if the shooting changed his views “on the gun situation in America?”
Brooks responded, “Not with respect to the 2nd Amendment. The 2nd Amendment right to bear arms is to help ensure that we always have a republic. And as with any constitutional provision in the Bill of Rights, there are adverse aspects to each of those rights that we enjoy as people, and what we just saw here is one of the bad side effects of someone not exercising those rights properly. But we’re not going to get rid of freedom of speech because some people say some really ugly things and hurt other people’s feelings. We’re not going get rid of the 4th Amendment search and seizure rights because it allows some criminals to go free who should be behind bars. These rights are there to protect Americans, and while each of them has a negative aspect to them, they’re fundamental to our being the greatest nation in world history. So, no, I’m not changing my position on any of the rights that we enjoy as Americans.”
(h/t WFB)
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