Rep. Tom Emmer, MN 6th District, US House
On Sunday, August 31, Rep. Tom Emmer, GOP Majority Whip, spoke to Martha Raddatz on ABC This Week. On the the subject of the recent mass shooting at the Annunciation Catholic Church involving students from the primary school, Emmer attacked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) for “not giving schools enough resources to prevent a shooting that killed two children in Minneapolis last week.”
“It’s going to be very important that the schools have the resources,” he said.
Martha Raddatz noted, however, “After mass shootings in Buffalo and in Uvalde, Texas, Congress passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It provided hundreds of millions of dollars for schools to expand mental health services, enhance safety measures. You did not vote for that bill. Why?”
“I don’t remember the reasons that I didn’t vote for that bill,” Emmer replied. He had nothing further to say about how he had decided that vote.
That was not the only time Tom Emmer refused to support gun safety measures. Here is his voting record on a number of bills responding to the many mass shootings in recent years. More content available at the votesmart.org link.
07/29/2022
Assault Weapons Ban of 2022
No
07/13/2022
Active Shooter Alert Act of 2022
No
06/24/2022
Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
No
06/09/2022
Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2021
No
06/08/2022
Protecting Our Kids Act
No
03/17/2021
Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2021
No
03/11/2021
Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2021
No
03/11/2021
Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021
No
02/28/2019
Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2019
No
02/27/2019
Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019
No
