for americans. we need to defend our sovereignty. brian: i know you are going to do war games and you have this military background. you are doing war games today. if taiwan was to be invaded how we would be equipped to respond? we are. tonight, the committee will be hosting a taiwan table top exercise. a few obvious things. the goal of the war games is to identify war. identify our weaknesses and figure out what we can do this congress like resupply and replenish our magazine capacity. stockpile critical munitions west of the international dateline. when i went to taiwan, the biggest thing i heard was hey we bought all these weapons but we have a $19 billion backlog of weapons that have not yet been delivered to taiwan. that s unacceptable. we are using this exercise to figure out what we can do in this congress, even in divided government to enhance deterrence, enhance peace and security across the taiwan strait and tell xi jinping today is not the day you will not be able to g
convention that can be construed as being open to any compromise on the issue of guns anything to tighten the restrictions, not take them away, but to at least tighten the restrictions let s just go off of their own words, if we may, there has been no mention of expanding background checks, no talk of limiting magazine capacity, no talk of raising the age in which an individual is able to buy a semiautomatic weapon those words have not been spoken here from the stage. wayne lapierre suggested the law passed last year should be an example for the other 49 states. asa hutchinson said he wanted to acknowledge the shootings from two weeks ago in nashville, and just four days ago in louisville, but it was mike pence who said that it s not about quote gun control that should be talked about instead it s crime control in
because it s clear that congress is not going to act so we have to, and we have to partner with more pro gun groups because there are a lot of groups that are not called the nra who do believe in gun safety and believe that we should be training people to be responsible gun owners and if we were to get people who are pro gun able to influence within the community. hey let s do safe storage. hey, why don t we go out and do reduce magazine capacity and get that and have it happen without having to enact laws that might be more successful? at this point? it s worth trying, because it we might as well do something other than sit on our hands. i mean, this was also i guess a permit list carry state, kentucky. so you don t need a permit. and maybe you don t. you don t need a permit to carry a concealed weapon number one and number two. you they might have done away with the training component . even i mean, many states have that where they do away. you know, if you re going to buy a gun, why
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