Rep. Boebert fights for 2nd Amend, against “Cradle to Grave Socialism”
5 November
Going to the Supreme Court to Defend the Second Amendment
I joined 175 Members of Congress in an amicus brief defending the Second Amendment before the Supreme Court in the case of New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen.
For the last century, New York’s mandates have banned Americans from carrying a firearm outside of their home unless a public safety bureaucrat determines they have “proper cause.” I searched the Second Amendment, but I couldn’t find the phrase “proper cause,” all I saw was “shall not be infringed.”
If the Supreme Court sides with us and overturns unconstitutional “may issue” gun control laws, then for the first time in my lifetime, 86 million Americans will finally be able to access their Second Amendment rights in seven anti-gun states across the country.
With the rampant crime wave hitting blue states due to the defunding of the police movement and illegal immigration, now more than ever, it is critical that Americans have the right to self-defense. Just look at New York City, where they defunded the police and saw a 41% increase in homicides, a 19% increase in assaults with a deadly weapon, and an astounding 95% increase in shootings. Or look at Chicago, which has the strictest gun control and the MOST murders in the country.
The Supreme Court has an opportunity to uphold the Constitution and defend the Second Amendment in this landmark case.
Rep. Boebert released the following statement following the introduction of the Stop Appropriating for Obsequy Costs Act (Stop AOC Act) to stop FEMA from wastefully dolling out taxpayer money for COVID funerals until 2023:
“AOC’s new government welfare program is cradle to grave—literally. AOC and Chuck Schumer have shelled out $1.2 billion in COVID funeral earmarks. Never mind that the average cost of a funeral is $3,000-$7,000, AOC’s FEMA program will give you $9,000. There has been little to no auditing of this colossal waste of money, and the program is ripe for abuse and fraud—even allowing illegal immigrant families to receive taxpayer money. The Biden regime’s priority is placating AOC instead of helping Americans; for instance, while the VA backlog takes over 125 days, it only takes a month to get funding from AOC’s pet project. This is just another blue state bailout, and coastal blue states like Maryland, New York, D.C., and California get almost 70% more money per COVID death on average than rural states like Colorado, Montana, Idaho, and New Mexico. The American people shouldn’t be forced to shell out another billion dollars of taxpayer money over the next 14 months for AOC’s COVID funerals and this new socialist program should end today.”
Background:
AOC and Senator Schumer created a new program for American taxpayers to foot the bill for funeral expenses that may or may not have been the result of a COVID-19 death. FEMA has shelled out more than $1.2 billion to 196,000 people out of the initial $2 billion earmarked for the COVID-19 Funeral Assistance Program. Even more funds were allocated to FEMA through the passage of the American Rescue Plan that allow the agency to continue operating this program until 2023, three years after the beginning of the pandemic.
Her supporters fear that since she has spoken against some of the favorites in the House of representatives at her days as a representative may be numbered. As Pelosi’s nemesis, they have plenty to be concerned about as the Speaker spares no power plays against her enemies.
November 8, 2021 Press Release. Rep. Boebert introduced a House companion bill to Senator Mike Lee’sProtecting Our Kids from Harmful Research Act to prohibit tax dollars from funding sex change, sterilization, chemical castration, and puberty-blocking procedures for minors suffering from gender dysphoria. Rep. Lauren Boebert stated: “Add mutilating children to the National Institute of Horrors’ (NIH) long list of funding evil research, which already includes gain-of-function research in Wuhan, scalping aborted babies and fusing their skin to lab rats, organ harvesting aborted babies’ genitalia, and insects eating dogs’ faces off. Using psychologically vulnerable children as lab rats for testing the puberty-blocking drugs used in chemical castration procedures for sex offenders, medically unnecessary mastectomies, irreversible hormone treatment, life-altering sterilization procedures, and genital mutilation is wrong.”