[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 99 (Thursday, June 9, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5414]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         GUN SAFETY LEGISLATION

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, yesterday during the debate on guns, 
Representative Jordan and a few others on the Republican side said that 
the Second Amendment and the right to guns was a God-given right.
  I don't know anything in the Old Testament where God spoke to guns. I 
do know He spoke to Moses and gave him the Ten Commandments and said 
nothing about AR-15s or guns. But He said: Thou shall not kill.
  In the New Testament I don't think Jesus said anything about guns or 
AR-15s, but He did say: You shall beat your swords into plowshares.
  We are all created in the image of God, and I am sure God would not 
like His powers, His name, and His authority used to endorse the 
killing of young people through weapons that he was allegedly giving, 
AR-15s. God would look askance at that type of logic.
  God bless America.

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