Surprise: House Democrats Want Taxpayer Funded Armed Security

Democrats are super happy to disarm you The People, keeping you from protecting yourself, but, for themselves

Democrats push for lawmakers to get armed security

As members of Congress grapple with growing personal threats, top Democrats in the US House are lobbying Republicans to let each lawmaker’s office employ an armed staff member to accompany them in their districts, as well as a law enforcement coordinator.

Rep. Joe Morelle of New York, the top Democrat on the committee in charge of member security, told Semafor that he and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have discussed pushing House Speaker Mike Johnson and committee chair Bryan Steil, R-Wis., for the additional hiring capacity.

Their push, which includes other priorities, comes as lawmakers gain access to a new $20,000 monthly personal security allowance starting Monday.

The law enforcement coordinator could “try to mitigate [threats] in advance and really do the prep work necessary,” Morelle said, while the armed staff member would be “someone who’s probably a former law enforcement, former military, who meets all the requirements of being able to carry a gun.”

Morelle placed “much of the blame” for the increase in threats to members — which he said have jumped tenfold since 2016 — on President Donald Trump, who most recently instructed the FBI to investigate six congressional Democrats who filmed a social media video telling military members not to follow illegal orders.

Perhaps they shouldn’t have broadcast a video telling service members to refuse orders they “feel” are illegal while blowing off the chain of command, all because they decided to die on the hill of caterwauling about strikes against foreign drug running boats.

Maybe Democrats should exercise their own 2nd Amendment right and carry a firearm.

Sure, Raphael isn’t carrying the gun himself, but, most private citizens cannot afford a private security guard following them around.

Weird, since her Islamist buds in Hamas, Hezbollah, and in Somalia all have guns. She’s not trying to take them away.