Kinzinger slams Gaetz speech: 'This is why we need a January 6 commission'

Source: The Hill | May 28, 2021 | Cameron Jenkins

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Friday slammed Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) rhetoric in response to a speech the Florida congressman gave encouraging Americans to use their Second Amendment rights.

Kinzinger condemned his fellow GOP lawmaker, saying that his comments are “why we need a January 6 commission.”

“Four months after an insurrection at the Capitol, we’re hearing this language at another rally where so-called ‘leaders’ are stoking fears & anger and inciting violence,” the Illinois congressman tweeted in response to a clip of Gaetz’s speech at a Georgia stop on his “America First Tour.”

In the clip, Gaetz is seen addressing a crowd of supporters and knocks “cancel culture” as well as Silicon Valley. He then turns to defending the Second Amendment, which covers the right to bear arms.

“The internet’s hall monitors out in Silicon Valley, they think they can suppress us, discourage us. Maybe if you’re just a little less patriotic. Maybe if you just conform to their way of thinking a little more you’ll be allowed to participate in the digital world,” he said. “Well you know what, Silicon Valley can’t cancel this movement or this rally or this congressman. We have a Second Amendment in this country, and I think we have an obligation to use it.”

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