{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://barrymoore.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-barry-moore-grandstanding-guns-wont-make-americans-safer", "Rep. Barry Moore: grandstanding on guns won't make Americans safer", "2022-07-13", "2022", "2022-07", "Republican", "House", "AL", "Barry Moore", "M001212", "barrymoore.house.gov", "barrymoore", "https://barrymoore.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2014 Rep. Barry Moore (AL-02) announced his opposition to the Active Shooter Alert Act of 2022 (H.R. 6538), an anti-gun propaganda program designed to dramatize and inflate the reported number of \u201cactive shooter\u201d incidents in an effort to expand support for unconstitutional gun control measures.\n\n\u201cSensationalizing violence specifically involving guns while ignoring the crime epidemic intensifying on their watch is a blatant attempt by Democrats to promote their anti-Second Amendment agenda, not the safety of Americans,\u201d said Moore. \u201cThere are many reasons for the violence and crime in our society, but none of them will be solved by duplicative layers of federal bureaucracy. Washington Democrats must commit to honoring our Constitution and restoring the rule of law before our nation can hope to tackle these issues.\u201d\n\nActive Shooter Alert Act\n\nThis bill failed to pass the House on suspension last month and creates new and unnecessary authorities within the Department of Justice with the mandate to create new alert systems for active shooter scenarios. This new alert system that solely focuses on attacks with firearms versus all violent attacks is unnecessary and redundant due to existing state and local alert systems.\n\nThis legislation establishes an Active Shooter Alert Coordinator at the Department of Justice to encourage communities to develop mass alert systems that will notify people in the immediate vicinity of an active shooter in a populated area.\n\nThe bill fails to clearly state when the new system should be used by broadly defining \u201cactive shooter\u201d and \u201cpopulated area\u201d in a way that will allow for active shooter alerts to be sent in virtually any scenario involving the discharge of a firearm.\n\nState and local officials already have the ability to use the existing Integrated Public Alert and Warning System to alert the public to emergency situations, which include active shooters.\n\nAs of 2019, there are more than 1,400 alerting authorities across the country, and 400 additional applications were pending with FEMA.\n\nDemocrats have failed to prove that this new system is necessary and rejected Republican efforts to study the issue.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:49:02Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://barrymoore.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-barry-moore-grandstanding-guns-wont-make-americans-safer"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4445078559219837, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}