David Skaggs: “the House votes today on a bill to repeal the assault weapons ban, a political death wish in the most literal sense…”

“the House votes today on a bill to repeal the assault weapons ban, a political death wish in the most literal sense possible. Please think about what Dion, Ty, and Aaron would say about this. One night in 1993, these three high school students from Westminster, CO, were driving home, minding their own business, when out of the dark, without any warning or cause, another young person in a car pulled up beside them and started firing. Dion was hit five times, Ty twice, Aaron once. Luckily, none of them died. But they were all shot, and shot so many times, because the person shooting at them had a AK-47. Mr. Speaker what in the world is a weapon like that doing on the streets of Colorado? It was not there because any hunter needed it. It was there because the gangs and the criminals and the psychos want to use it to kill as many people as they can and to outgun the police. In September 1993, one of them was used on these three young men. Please, for God's sake do not repeal the ban on these awful weapons.”