Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) told Fox News that he is opposed to any new restrictions on guns — even regarding military-style assault weapons — because we need them to “take back” our government.

Brooks exploded at the Fox News host when she insisted there was no evidence that the 2020 election was rigged.

The crowd booed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) as he arrived at the memorial outside of Uvalde Elementary School where 21 people were gunned down last week.

In contrast, the crowd cheered for President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) blamed the decline of “moral values” in the U.S. for mass shootings that have devastated the country, The Hill reports.

Said Brooks: “If we teach proper moral values and if we teach respect for human life, then that is the way to fix the problem.”

“The police chief who officials said decided to wait to confront the gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, completed an active shooter training course in December,” NBC News reports.

Playbook: “There’s no doubt that Trump’s endorsement power has waned, but could his words shaming anyone looking at gun restrictions chill fledgling bipartisan talks on Capitol Hill? We’ll soon find out. These talks already face a serious uphill climb, coming just months before the midterms.”

The New York Times quotes from a conversation between then-President Donald Trump with his acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, after a far-right gunman killed 23 people at a Walmart store in El Paso in 2019.

TRUMP: What are we going to do about assault rifles?

MULVANEY: Not a damn thing.

TRUMP: Why?

MULVANEY: Because, you would lose.

“We all know they want total gun confiscation, know that this would be a first step. Once they get the first step, they’ll take the second step, the third, the fourth, and then you’ll have a whole different look at the Second Amendment.”

— Donald Trump, quoted by the Washington Post, at the NRA convention in Texas.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who has taken more than $1 million in campaign contributions from the National Rifle Association, ran into a locked door as he tried to dodge CNN’s questions about gun legislation.

A lieutenant with the Texas Department of Public Safety told CNN that police were reluctant to immediately engage with the gunman who spent an hour inside the elementary school in Uvalde, Tex., where he killed 19 children and two adults because “they could’ve been shot.”

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) told Vice News that he thought people still needed assault weapons to kill “feral pigs.”

Said Cassidy: “If you talk to the people that own it, killing feral pigs in the, whatever, the middle of Louisiana. They’ll wonder: ‘Why would you take it away from me?’ I’m law abiding, I’ve never done anything, I use it to kill feral pigs. The action of a criminal deprives me of my right.”

Insider: “Cassidy’s remarks inadvertently referenced a meme from 2019 involving a hypothetical argument on Twitter made in support of keeping assault weapons legal.”