Rep. Ed Orcutt’s floor speech in opposition on House Bill 1240 | March 8, 2023

thank you madam speaker and maybe it's uh perfectly perfect timing that I'm the next speaker up I've been listening to the debate on the floor tonight and and I've heard a lot about the Second Amendment and I I feel very strongly about the Second Amendment very much in support of it but I want you to know I'm not only hearing what's being said on this side of the aisle I've been listening to what the gentlelady from the 36th has said and the 46th and now recently the 49th kids are screaming out they're Marching In the Streets they're asking us to do something Madam speaker that's something that we need to do is not this bill we do need to listen to them but Madam speaker I think we've got to go a step even further than that because the kids who don't feel safe are not the only ones who have been screaming out in fact the very ones who have been perpetrating these crimes misusing these firearms are screaming out they are crying out for us to help them I believe that we need to better understand why they're crying out why they're so frustrated and why they believe this is the only way to deal with whatever frustration they're feeling we need that level of understanding if we're really going to solve the problem of mass shootings there are so many people out there who have these types of firearms who never use them for mass shootings so the real question here is those who are using them for these types of shootings why are they and what can we do to prevent them from having that frustration because if it doesn't manifest itself this way it will manifest itself some other way with consequences equally as deadly Madam speaker this bill will not make us safer it may make us feel safer but it won't make us feel safer we need to get down and understand the true root cause of the violence to truly make our society safer please vote no on the bill tonight