California Mr swell for 5 minutes of questioning violence has never been the answer and I thank both of you for your service in law enforcement and testifying today violence has never been the answer not on a certain day in January and not on a day in July I remember I was 12 years old and my dad I was on the way to school on a cold day in January and my dad who was a cop stopped me as I was about to leave and he wanted me to watch the television his guy had just lost a presidential election and some young kid from Arkansas was about to be sworn in as the new president of the United States my dad was burned he really liked George Bush he did not like Bill Clinton but he told me to stop and watch the television coverage of the inauguration because he said look at that look at that son he said that's what makes us so special my guy lost this guy's getting sworn in and not a shot has been fired that's what makes us different violence has never been the answer it's despicable that somebody thought they could take a shot at the former president and change the course of history we don't know much about the political beliefs of this individual we know he was a 20-year-old male registered Republican gun enthusiast also had researched the DNC also had researched President Biden also had researched speaker leader I'm sorry leader hakee Jeff we don't know what led this madman to try and kill the former president but it's despicable and the people who went to that rally deserved to hear without violence the candidate that they were supporting commissioner Paris I'm I'm sorry this happened to your community I'm sorry this happened to the people who person who died and the person persons who've been wounded I just want to understand though because we are a country that is armed to the teeth how many Firearms were within the perimeter just by a back of the envelope estimate the only Firearms of which I'm aware that were inside of the perimeter were those in the possession of law enforcement and would you estimate that was hundreds or dozens I would only feel comfortable not having seen the Secret Service uh operations plan about the PSP members that were inside the perimeter okay how many rounds did the shooter fire before he was killed do you know no uh I believe that the number is eight eight casings have been recovered okay I also understand the emotions around this assassination attempt but I am not going to allow some and I say some the chairman of this committee is a serious legislator who wants answers some are not and some are trying to rewrite what has happened in our country over the last 8 years erase what happened in this building on January 6th one member of this body in Congress said the Republican district attorney in Butler County should immediately file charges against Joseph Biden for inciting assassination another said Congressman scales Justice Kavanaugh and now president Trump for years Democrats and their allies have recklessly stoked fears calling president Trump and others threat the democracies another said Democrats and liberals in the media have called Trump a fascist they've compared him to Hitler they've tried to lock him up a radical shift in what has really happened in our country in fact the president the former president's one current Vice Presidential nominee is the one who said that Donald Trump might be American America's Hitler might be a cynical a-hole cultural heroin he's responsible for nauseous and reprehensible I join the chairman in seeking Unity as the antidote to political violence Unity as the antidote to political violence but we're not going to erase and rewrite and allow some to reincarnate themselves as victims of what happened we can't let this ever happen again we must arm law enforcement uh and have better security perimeters but in this country violence has never been the answer I yield back gentleman y nil recognized the vice chairman of the committee uh