Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert, who argued loudly with Democrats protesting on the House floor earlier this week over gun control, said Friday their sit-in proves that "insanity exists here" in the same way it has been existing in England for years, and people are getting fed up with it."
"I think the vote on Brexit was an anti-insanity vote," Gohmert told Fox News'
"America's Newsroom" program. "They are allowing the European Union to force them to take people who are a threat to them."
And in the United States, where the protest on the House floor was staged over bringing several gun control measures to a vote, Gohmert argued with the Democratic lawmakers that the real issue behind the Orlando killings earlier this month wasn't one of gun control, but rather brought by Islamic radicalism.
"He said he was meaning allegiance to the Islamic State, to its leader [Abu Bakr] al-Baghdadi," Gohmert said. "If you are sitting on the floor and the White House and Homeland Security and the Justice Department heard a 911 call where the Orlando shooter said, 'I feel like a woman and I'm being dishonored as a woman,' they would be saying it [the shooting] was because he was a woman. What is his motivation? My gosh. It's ridiculous to say it's the gun."
In Great Britain, people who voted for the Brexit measure have a similar feeling: they "want leadership that is using common sense," Gohmert said.
"And the European Union has been saying, 'Hey — like [Angela] Merkel in Germany — we'll take all comers, and there is a refugee surge into Europe and England as part of the European Union, also allowing Syrian fighters and 'ISIS warriors' to enter the countries," said Gohmert.
That, he said, played a part in the Brexit vote, but also, supporters were "tired of Brussels telling them what they have to do with their country."
That same feeling is true in the United States, said Gohmert, where Americans don't want Washington telling them "in Texas or Tennessee or Kentucky what we have to do. We know what our states need."
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