When Marlin Kemmerer, a 25-year-old department store clerk, pointed a gun at the House floor in 1932, everyone ran except three brave members of Congress.
In 1932, three members of Congress — Fiorello La Guardia, Edith Rogers and Melvin Maas — confronted a gunman who pointed a firearm in the House gallery. Marlin Kemmerer had one objective when he boarded a train to the District in December 1932: hold the U.S. House of Representatives hostage until they heard every last word he had to say about saving the nation.
Kemmerer’s family believed he traveled to Washington to meet with a patent attorney regarding a new rifle attachment he had developed and to discuss plans with editors of a firearms magazine, American Rifleman, to which he was a contributor. Instead, Kemmerer spent four days crafting a speech he planned to deliver to the House.
Rogers approached Kemmerer as he brandished a pistol in the gallery. She looked up, and in a soothing voice, she told the troubled young man, “You won’t do anything.”“I demand the right to the floor for 20 minutes,” Kemmerer shouted.Kemmerer hesitated before dropping the weapon down into Maas’s waiting grip. Rep. Fiorello La Guardia , the future mayor of New York, rushed across the gallery to apprehend Kemmerer with an off-duty D.C. police officer.
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