[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 194 (Thursday, December 5, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H9281]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 VIRGINIA SUPPORTS THE SECOND AMENDMENT

  (Mr. RIGGLEMAN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RIGGLEMAN. Madam Speaker, 40 Virginia localities have declared 
themselves ``Second Amendment sanctuaries,'' resolving to support the 
Constitution and stand against infringements on the Second Amendment.
  Across my district, thousands of citizens are rallying outside the 
meetings of their local government to show their strong support for the 
rights of gun owners.
  Virginia has always been a cradle of constitutional rights. There is 
no divide between our rural and urban populations. All of us want to 
defend our rights as citizens of the United States of America.
  I represent the same district that James Madison represented in the 
first Congress. He understood America's rights to bear arms when he 
wrote it into our Constitution.
  I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, and I am proud to 
stand with the people who are speaking up for their constitutional 
rights and for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
  James Madison would be proud. I know I am.

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