In a House Judiciary Committee hearing after the massacre of 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, U.S. Rep. Chip Roy argued that 18-year-olds should be able to purchase and carry assault rifles, the type of weapon the 18-year-old shooter had just used on children. Why? Because, he said, the weapons might be needed to use against the government in case, for example, …. there were attempts to lock us in apartment buildings like they do in China to stamp out COVID.
“He’s talking about turning guns on American troops,” the chairman of the Judiciary Committee said.
Roy went on to make other bizarre statements. For example: Gun control enacted in the Soviet Union in 1929, resulted in 20 million people (without guns) being massacred. In Turkey, gun control is responsible for the death of 1 ½ million unarmed Armenians. And, Roy stated, “... we know what gun control in Nazi Germany meant for Jews.” The renown holocaust historian Alan Steinweis called such an argument “false, silly and insulting. (Austin American Statesman, June 8, 2022)
