Pelosi calls gun-toting GOP lawmakers ‘enemy within’ [Video]

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA.) referred to fellow legislators who want to be armed while in Congress as “enemy within the House,” Thursday.
• Pelosi’s remarks were pointed towards GOP lawmakers who wanted to carry firearms.
• Legislators can bring guns in Congress as long as they are not loaded but they can’t bring them inside the chamber.

“The enemy is within the House of Representatives,” this is what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA.) said on Thursday as she cited legislators who want to bring guns into the Capitol to protect themselves.

Pelosi said that Democratic lawmakers are scared because their Republican colleagues are carrying firearms in Congress as security at the Capitol is currently being reviewed during the January 6 riot. They were also frightened because of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA.) posts on social media, provoking violence against Democratic leaders.

“I do believe, and I have said this all along, that we will probably need a supplemental for more security for members when the enemy is within the House of Representatives, a threat that members are concerned about in addition to what is happening outside,” the House Speaker told reporters.

When asked to clarify her statement “the enemy is within,” Pelosi doubled down without dropping any particular name.

“It means we have members of Congress who want to bring guns onto the floor and that threatened violence on other members of Congress,” she said.

Pelosi’s comments came as a caution for gun-promoting GOPs and Greene, who was criticized by her own party after a revelation surfaced that she liked Facebook posts suggesting that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton should “be hanged.”

Last month, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO.) successfully defended the preservation of a 1967 rule allowing legislators to be armed to defend themselves at all times.

Meanwhile, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY.) said that together with several members of Congress, they feel secure since they carried firearms when the riot erupted in the Capitol last January 6.

“The next member who argues Congressmen shouldn’t be allowed to carry firearms at work needs to be laughed out of the Capitol. Several of us were glad to be armed while barricaded for hours in our offices with our staff,” he said.

Paraplegic Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) also announced that he was armed during the Capitol riot.

As long as firearms are not loaded, Congress members can store them in their offices but they cannot bring them inside the chamber.

House legislators are currently entangled in a debate whether they should be carrying guns or not.

Source: New York Post