the first category which is what we are is federally recognized and their primary job is to fight the nation s wars. the second category is the state militias and they support the states, fighting fires, floods, and clearly covid now. if you talk about militias there is this other category of private militias that are private organizations that have nothing to do with the first two categories. it s those private organizations that have been keeping lawmakers up at night. paramilitary groups that often refer to themselves as militia but exist in a legal gray zone. where individuals have the right to bear arms but as groups they don t have the legal standing to drill or conduct law enforcement. on january 6, 2021, members of some of those groups crossed a red line. all of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by a bold and radical left democrats. in an attempt to overthrow
to the united states were coming from abroad, january 6th was the beginning of a different era where greatest threat to american national security right now is the divisiveness between americans. so many of these militia members will say that they have a right to rise up against a tyrannical government. they believe they do. but as we saw from the number of arrests that came out of january 6th, you do not have the right to an armed insurrection against the u.s. government. i have tried to read very carefully the words of our founders. i do not believe they meant that every tom, dick and harry could start their own militia for whatever cause they felt and in some instances wreak havoc on a community. with many private militia groups in a legal gray zone, there s little for government to do proactively, but social media companies have taken a different approach, pulling the accounts
and clearly covid now. if you talk about militias there is this other category of private militias that are private organizations that have nothing to do with the first two categories. it s those private organizations that have been keeping lawmakers up at night. paramilitary groups that often refer to themselves as militia but exist in a legal gray zone. where individuals have the right to bear arms but as groups they don t have the legal standing to drill or conduct law enforcement. on january 6, 2021, members of some of those groups crossed a red line. all of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by a bold and radical left democrats. in an attempt to overthrow the presidential election hundreds of protesters overpowered police and stormed the u.s. capitol building. we aren t putting up with this rule. if we don t come back here and start a revolution and take all of these traitors out which is
a right to rise up against a tyrannical government. they believe they do. but as we saw from the number of arrests that came out of january 6th, you do not have the right to an armed insurrection against the u.s. government. i have tried to read very carefully the words of our founders. i do not believe they meant that every tom, dick and harry could start their own militia for whatever cause they felt. and in some instances reek havoc on a community. with many private militia groups in a legal gray zone, there s little for a government to do proactively but social media companies have pulled the accounts of silver back, magnus and thousands of other users with militia leanings. and i wonder just how productive that really is. i know that a lot of people affiliated with militias are deplatformed off social media,
militias, and they support the states, fighting fires, floods, and clearly covid now. if you talk about militias, there s this other category of private militias that are private organizations that have nothing to do with the first two categories. it s those private organizations that have been keeping lawmakers up at night. paramilitary groups that often refer to themselves as militia but exist in a legal gray zone, where individuals have the right to bear arms, but as groups, they don t have the legal standing to drill or conduct law enforcement. on january 6th, 2021, members of some of those groups crossed a red line. all of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by a bold and radical left democrats. in an attempt to overthrow the presidential election, hundreds of protesters overpowered police and stormed the u.s. capitol building. we re not putting up with this tyrannical rule.