James Rogan: “Mr. Chairman, I must respectfully again take issue with my dear friend from Michigan. He says in his remarks that small…”

“Mr. Chairman, I must respectfully again take issue with my dear friend from Michigan. He says in his remarks that small business gun manufacturers are now automatically protected under the Rogan bill. First, that is not a correct statement. Secondly, the statement itself and the arguments preceding the statement from some of our other colleagues appear to make the suggestion that there is something inherently evil about an otherwise lawful gun manufacturer being able to sell guns to law-abiding citizens. I would respectfully suggest to my colleague and to those who seem to take that same position that if it is really their intention to override the second amendment protection for law-abiding citizens to defend themselves in their homes or in their place of business, and abolish the private ownership of all handguns, then let them introduce their constitutional amendment to overturn the second amendment, let them introduce their legislation to preclude law-abiding citizens from being able to defend themselves, and let us then debate the merits of that bill up or down. But let us not destroy the protections of small business owners through America, millions and millions of men and women, who have nothing to do with guns, who have nothing to do with gun manufacturing, who have everything to do with driving our economic engine.”