Active Shooter Alert Act of 2022

Floor Speech

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Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I associate myself with the remarks of my friend from Florida (Mr. Gaetz) a few minutes ago with respect to his position about what this bill will do in terms of fear and its purpose of creating fear among the people. That is the reality. That is what we are dealing with here.

Texas has an alert system. States have alert systems. That is where this properly resides. That is where the police power resides, in the States.

In fact, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee even acknowledged this reality that, well, okay, States have this, but here is a Federal program we are going to create with $2 million. You can use it if you want.

This is another example of Washington creating another department, another position, spending more money that we don't have in order to have a policy objective of continuing to advance fear among the American people.

Remember the COVID alerts? How many alerts do we need on our phones to create fear in the minds of the American people?

Allow the States to make a decision about when there is something that is meritorious, whether it is a tornado alert, whether it is an AMBER Alert. Allow the local jurisdictions to make that decision, not bureaucrats in Washington. That is the reality.

I think it would probably be a more advantageous use of our time to develop a congressional stupidity alert system or a congressional harm alert system. I mean, we do it every single day. That is what this body is actually engaged in on a regular basis, harming the American people through either nonaction or action.

As we speak, maybe we should have an alert about the inflation running rampant around this country because of the rampant spending, as evidenced by this very bill with another $2 million for a position in the Department of Justice.

Maybe we need an alert system for the literal stream of people coming across the border in Eagle Pass right now and the fentanyl pouring across into our communities, endangering the American people, empowering cartels at our peril.

Maybe, perhaps, we need an alert system for more COVID mandates, more mask mandates, and more shutdowns in our schools where our children get harmed and where they have mental health issues because of what this body does.

Maybe we need an alert system for the wokeism and the vax mandates at the Department of Defense that are damaging our ability to recruit. Just now, on the floor this week, we are going to be taking up the National Defense Authorization Act. We can't even attain 40 percent recruiting standards right now in our United States Army because of wokeism and because of vaccine mandates driving our personnel away from the Department of Defense. Maybe we need an alert system for the American people to know what is happening at the Department of Defense.

Maybe we need an alert on our failures to vote, our proxy voting in this very body, and our virtual voting from boats by some of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle.

We could have so many alert systems that we could be actually educating the American people on what they are getting here in this august body, the people's House. That would be a more valuable alert system than carrying out the function of the State and local police power that is inherent in our Constitution, which this body tramples upon on a regular and daily basis.

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