Congressman Thomas Massie. (Photo via Twitter)

A Kentucky congressman who uses tragic shootings to justify weakening D.C. gun laws is at it again.

Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced legislation on Thursday that would allow people with concealed carry permits in their home states to use them while in the District of Columbia, a jurisdiction that does not have reciprocity for such permits on the books.

Massie said that his bill is a reaction to the shooting in Alexandria, Va. on Wednesday, in which House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) and four others were wounded by a shooter during a baseball practice.

“What I’m trying to do is anticipate how to avoid a tragic situation in the future, and what the American people don’t realize is that most congressmen do not have a security detail and we are as exposed as the general public is exposed when they come to visit our nation’s capital,” Massie said during a Fox Business interview this afternoon.

“I don’t want to extend a special privilege just to congressmen. I recognize that everybody has the right to defend themselves, and that’s in the Constitution,” he said.

Virginia, where the shooting occurred, already has concealed carry reciprocity. Capitol Police officers were there to protect Scalise as a member of leadership, and fired back at the shooter, who has been identified as James Hodgkinson. Law enforcement agencies investigating the shooting say that they have no evidence to suggest that Hodgkinson broke the law when he purchased the firearms recovered at the scene—a 9 mm handgun and a 7.62 caliber rifle.

“If it hadn’t have been for those two [Capitol Police] officers,” Congressman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) told The Washington Post, “it would have been a carnage.”

Massie, the leader of the Congressional Second Amendment Caucus, has introduced a slew of bills aimed at preventing D.C. from spending its funds to enforce gun laws and gun-free zones. Less than a week after 49 people were killed in the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Massie introduced amendments to must-pass legislation to “reduce the likelihood of a similar tragedy in D.C.” by eliminating gun-free zones. (The amendment was ultimately ruled out of order.)

Earlier this term, he introduced a bill that would repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act, which prohibits unauthorized people from wielding firearms near schools nationwide.

Massie’s new bill echoes the rhetoric of other Republican lawmakers who say that Wednesday’s shooting has compelled them to loosen gun laws and personally carry a firearm.

“On a rare occasion I’d have my gun in the glove box or something, but it’s going to be in my pocket from this day forward,” said Congressman Chris Collins (R-NY).

But D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, the only person in Congress elected by the residents of the District, is not having it.

“It took less than a day for Representative Massie to exploit the shocking targeting of Members of Congress and staff to abuse congressional authority over D.C. to undermine our local jurisdiction’s gun safety laws,” Norton said in a statement. “At a time when Members need to come together and show unity, Representative [Massie] is doing exactly the opposite by going after the gun safety laws that protect D.C. residents.”