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‘I Don’t Need Statistics’: GOP Congresswoman Says Locking Up Her Guns Will Not Make Her and Her Children Safer
U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz unleashed a loud anti-gun-control rant during Chairman Jim Jordan‘s field trip to lower Manhattan Monday, where he and his Judiciary Committee held a hearing wrongly alleging violent crime in the nation’s largest city – and the fifth-safest among all of America’s big cities – is out of control, in an effort to attack Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for prosecuting Donald Trump. The Indiana Republican lawmaker claimed safe storage of guns in the home does not make her or her children safer, then appeared to suggest children and young adults are the main perpetrators of violent crime, while saying schools should be reformed so children can be “taught some values.”
“I just don’t see how am I, how I am and my kids are going to be safer if I lock up my guns,” Rep. Spartz said, referring to safe storage of firearms in the home. A study published in 2020 found 2500 lives could be saved by stricter laws requiring safe firearm storage.
“I just feel actually as a female I feel not as safe,” if her guns were to be locked up, Spartz continued, complaining that she’s unsure how long it would take the police to come to her home.
According to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Indiana, Rep. Spartz’s home state, “has no law that imposes a penalty on someone who fails to secure an unattended firearm and leaves it accessible to an unsupervised minor.” Moms Demand Action adds: “Guns are the leading cause of death among children and teens in Indiana, and an average of 110 children and teens die by guns every year, of which 31% are suicides and 63% are homicides.”
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“It’s really strange for me, we tried to take, you know, protection from law-abiding citizens and believe that criminals are not going to get guns?” she said, relying on NRA and right-wing talking points that criminals don’t obey laws.
Spartz then went on to attack children and young adults, suggesting they are the real criminals, as she advocated for tax-payer-funding of private schools.
“Maybe we should reform education and have some wraparound preventive services and have more competition in education [so] that these kids [are] actually taught some values,” she railed, claiming that low reading scores force children into gangs.
“That [they] don’t have a 10% or 8% literacy rate that they have to get into gangs.”
“Is there anything else you can say except ‘gun control’?” she asked, chastising a witness invited by Democrats, and mocking the fact that more guns mean more violent crime.
“So, comprehensive solutions to reducing violence in New York City have actually been incredibly effective,” the witness responded.
“If I set the record straight,” the witness continued despite Spartz talking over her, “because we’ve been talking a lot about statistics, the NYPD’s own data has shown that shootings are down –” she said before Spartz cut her off.
“I think I don’t need statistics,” Spartz declared, cutting off the witness who was trying to answer her question.
Spartz then turned to another witness, totally changing the topic.
“I’m going to talk about child trafficking, human trafficking and drug trafficking [at] the border and cartels,” before claiming that Mexican cartels are trafficking guns, “and now it’s subsidized with taxpayers money.”
Watch Rep. Spartz’s remarks at C-SPAN.
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President Donald Trump declared April 2, “Liberation Day” and launched a series of erratic, wildly fluctuating, country-specific tariffs, citing a “national emergency” over the U.S. trade deficit—a trend that has persisted since 1975.
He has also vowed to make 90 deals in 90 days, something experts say is an impossibility, given that trade negotiations often take months if not years to complete. The deadline is fast approaching: July 9, he has said.
The President has yet, as far as we know, to have any country sign an actual trade deal—despite having claimed to already have struck 200—and the clock is ticking. He has claimed to have closed two deals, one with the UK, and one with China. The UK deal has been described as an “outline.”
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“Who goes first, if anyone, as of today?” Fox News host Bill Hemmer asked (video below) top Trump economic advisor, and tariff and bitcoin advocate, Stephen Miran.
“You mean, who goes first in terms of countries?” Miran asked. “Yeah, so there’s—look, there’s a number of deals in the works, with a number of our trading partners, particularly in Asia and in Europe as well.”
Miran, Trump’s Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. said he expected a “flurry” of deals to come “as we get close to the deadline because of the process in which these deals are proceeding, where there’s steps that everyone is taking to move the deal forward.”
“And those steps are designed to yield success around the time of the deadline,” he continued before Hemmer interrupted.
The Fox host appeared less than satisfied.
“Every time we do these segments, I’m just trying to find the name of a country—who will be first in line? Can we say today which country that will be?” Hemmer asked.
“I cannot,” Miran replied.
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Back in April Trump had claimed, “I’ve made 200 deals.”
“Pressed on which countries he had made deals with,” Politico reported, “Trump refused to say, nor did he clarify the terms of the agreements. He added that he would announce them ‘over the next three to four weeks,’ once the negotiations are ‘finished.'”
Also in April, Miran told CNN, “We’ve received written offers from almost 20 countries.”
Watch the video below or at this link.
Trump economic advisor: There are a lot of deals in the works. I expect a flurry around the deadline
Fox Host: I’m sorry to interrupt but every time we do these segments, I’m just looking for the name of a country. Can you give me a name?
Trump economic advisor: I cannot pic.twitter.com/8RKwHM8frI
— FactPost (@factpostnews) June 6, 2025
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“It’s deeply troubling that a Muslim was allowed to lead prayer in the House of Representatives this morning. This should have never been allowed to happen. America was founded as a Christian nation, and I believe our government should reflect that truth, not drift further…” she wrote, according to screenshots of the post captured by Politico’s Nicholas Wu, before she edited, then deleted it.
The second version, now fully deleted, substituted the word “Sikh” for “Muslim.”
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According to Axios, “Giani Singh, a Sikh Granthi from Southern New Jersey, delivered the House’s morning prayer on Friday.”
Politico described her post as “xenophobic.”
Wu also reported that U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) had “welcomed” Singh.
Miller, who was endorsed for re-election by President Donald Trump, has a history of controversial statements that have been denounced.
“This is the battle. Hitler was right on one thing. He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the future,'” she said at a rally on January 5, 2021, CBS News reported.
In 2023, Miller alleged (video below) that “activists on the left” are working “to abolish the natural family.”
Critics, including Democratic lawmakers, blasted Congresswoman Miller.
“It’s deeply troubling that someone with such contempt for religious freedom is allowed to serve in this body,” wrote U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ). “This should have never been allowed to happen. America was founded as free nation, and I believe the conduct of its legislators should reflect that truth, not drift further from it.”
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“She is one of the biggest bigots in Congress. An absolute disgrace,” wrote journalist Yashar Ali.
“I am appalled by the gross Islamophobic and anti-Sikh rhetoric used by Rep. Miller. Hate often stems from ignorance. That was on full display here. Rep. Miller should apologize,” urged U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY).
“A Sikh man, Balbir Singh Sodhi, was murdered in my district after 9/11 because he was mistaken for an Arab Muslim,” wrote U.S, Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ). “Arizona’s Sikh community transformed that senseless act of hate into a powerful call for peace and understanding. It’s a lesson I hope my colleague from Illinois can come to learn. The House has welcomed faith leaders of all backgrounds—priests, rabbis, imams, and more. We’re blessed to live in a nation founded upon religious liberty.”
“Textbook xenophobia,” observed The Bulwark’s Joe Perticone. “Is completely ignorant of what she’s even looking at, is terrified nonetheless.”
Watch a video of Miller’s comments on left wing activists and the natural family below or at this link.
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Musk answered “Yes” when a right-wing influencer wrote, “Trump should be impeached and JD Vance should replace him.”
Trump threatened he would cancel the federal government’s billions of dollars in contracts with the man who spent much of the year literally by his side, Elon Musk:
“The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts.”
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Musk charged that Trump was in the Epstein files:
“Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”
Trump alleged that “Elon was ‘wearing thin,’ I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!”
And so it went.
The Vice President was all but silent throughout.
Until 10:28 PM, when—as the battle had wound down and something of a “truce” was in the works, reportedly after an Oval Office meeting—Vance finally broke his silence.
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“Nothing says courage like tweeting support for your boss at 10pm after watching him get his a– handed to him by a weirdo billionaire all day,” wrote Democratic strategist and former Harris advisor Mike Nellis.
“Ooh, I can just feel the power of love here. It’s just overwhelming,” snarked attorney George Conway.
“You know the s— is hitting the fan when a Vice President has to send out something like this. It’s like we are watching an episode of Veep, just not as funny,” said Washburn University School of Law Professor Joe Mastrosimone.
“LOL,” mocked conservative Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Dispatch. “Congrats to the team for coming up with this. Technically true if you define ‘the movement that he leads’ as the coterie of sycophants and cultists who trust Trump to be Trump. Otherwise this is a—covering gibberish.”
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