Congressman Eric Swalwell speaks on gun control

"Are you here for our kids, or are you here for the killers?"  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