Swalwell: If you're not on the side of protecting our kids, you're on the side of helping the killers…I also fear this rhetoric from my colleagues is putting targets on the backs of law enforcement.

[Swalwell basically calling republicans child murderers and cop killers]

Dettelbach: People are only felons if they intentionally violate the law.

[once again, a ridiculous comment from a former prosecutor who knows ignorance is not a defense]

Roy: ATF Agent named Brandon Garcia submitted a resignation letter in which he wrote, "ATF has been spending a significant amount of time talking about and changing the course of this agency to focus on "the guns". Last year our headquarters spent pretty much the entire year talking about the vaccine, and threatening termination for those who wouldn't get it. The deputy director threatened to prosecute agents for lying to a federal agent if we did not appropriately update our vaccination status in the system."

Scanlon: This hearing was called to attack ATF and it's leadership, to undermine ATF's ability to do it's job…Second Amendment extremists often claim we don't need new laws, we just need to enforce the laws that are on the books. But that's what a well-funded, and fully-staffed ATF does.

[ATF, and other agencies, are literally doing the unconstitutional equivalent of writing laws]