Pennsylvania Democrat Mary Scanlon reveals what may have saved her from getting carjacked at gunpoint by group of teenagers in her home Philadelphia [Video]

14:24 EDT 03 May 2024, updated 15:06 EDT 03 May 2024

A Democrat lawmaker who was carjacked revealed that when she looked down the barrel she could only think about Congress‘ failures to address gun reform and how closing ‘loopholes’ and funding the ATF could have prevented her robbing.

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Penn., represents south Philadelphia where the House Judiciary Committee held a field hearing Friday on crime in the city. 

‘Two and a half years ago, I was carjacked at gunpoint by three teenagers using a gun they brought from out of state,’ Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Penn., said at the hearing. 

‘Obviously, it was scary to have a gun pointed at my chest,’ Scanlon said. 

‘But as I looked down the barrel of that gun my mind raced thinking about all the ways Congress could have prevented that encounter.’