[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 172]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     DEFENDING THE SECOND AMENDMENT

  (Mr. ROKITA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROKITA. Mr. Speaker, any constitutional lawyer should know that 
Congress is supposed to write the laws and the executive branch is 
supposed to follow them, as written. Implementing more gun control 
through executive fiat is not what is needed, and it is not what is 
legal.
  Enforcement of the current law is what is needed by this executive, 
and it is what this President should be doing. Instead, for example, he 
lets prisoners out of jail to contribute to the violence.
  Mr. Speaker, the right to self-defense is God-given. It is vital in 
order to protect people and property against criminals, and it is a 
hedge against tyrants, and it shall not be infringed.
  To those who would challenge these rights, Mr. Speaker, I leave you 
with these words: ``A well-regulated militia necessary to the security 
of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall 
not be infringed.''

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