{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://barrymoore.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-barry-moore-senate-gun-control-bill-supporters-are-using-tragedies-assault", "Rep. Barry Moore: Senate gun control bill supporters are using tragedies to assault our constitutional rights", "2022-06-23", "2022", "2022-06", "Republican", "House", "AL", "Barry Moore", "M001212", "barrymoore.house.gov", "barrymoore", "https://barrymoore.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Highlights from Moore's remarks:\n\n\u201cI really think this is a hill we\u2019re going to have to die on as Republicans. The Second Amendment, to me, protects all other rights. As we start talking about these slippery slopes, y\u2019all remember just a few years ago it was just two weeks to flatten the curve. It concerns me going forward exactly how this thing is going to play out.\n\n\u201cSenator Cornyn said himself that this is \u2018a step in the right direction.' My question to the senators is: what\u2019s the next step? It\u2019s never enough. I think [Rep. Dan Bishop] hit on this. They use tragedies in our society to come after our rights. Without the Second Amendment, your rights are not protected as press, there are so many rights that we cannot protect.\n\n\u201cThomas Jefferson said, when people fear the government there is tyranny, but when the government fears the people, there is liberty. We have a responsibility. My job, these members jobs, are to protect liberty. It's not to play politics, it is to protect your liberty. You make the decision to protect your home, to arm yourself. That's your right. It's guaranteed in the constitution, and it's our right to fight for that. And so I'm just honored to be a part of this process.\n\n\u201cThis is not a gun issue in America. I went to school at Enterprise High School. We had guns in every rack there. It's a heart issue in America. When you tell young people, and we protest the right to kill a baby in the mother's womb and sell the body parts, and then go wonder why there's no value in life in young Americans, it's because we're teaching that to our children. And because of that, they do not value life, and therefore we have unmitigated murders in gun free zones.\u201d\n\nSenate Gun Control Act:\n\nIn an effort to slowly chip away at law-abiding citizens\u2019 Second Amendment rights, this legislation takes the wrong approach in attempting to curb violent crimes. The bill throws emergency supplemental federal spending at states to encourage implementation of red flag laws and dramatically increases funding for numerous other grant programs, but the bill\u2019s vague language contains insufficient guardrails to ensure that the money is actually going towards keeping guns out of the hands of criminals or preventing mass violence. House Republicans are committed to identifying and solving the root causes of violent crimes, but doing so must not infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:39:01Z"]], "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-senate-gun-control-bill-supporters-are-using-tragedies-assault"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7466791905462742, "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"}