Political Quotes

“My friend from Florida talked about the specificity that he used in describing the conditions of these veterans, but that is not what the rule says. What the rule says, Mr. Speaker, is that if someone--if a veteran needs a fiduciary, they will be denied the ability to own, possess, purchase a firearm. It doesn't say if they are schizophrenic. It doesn't say if they have PTSD. It doesn't say if they have depression, and if they have PTSD or depression that is somehow linked to further violent behavior. It doesn't say that. What it says is, if you can't balance your bank account, you can't have a gun to protect yourself. There is no relationship between those two. Now, if the gentleman from Florida would go to the Veterans Administration and talk to them about the need to link that finding of a fiduciary with future violent behavior, we may not be here today. But so many people have been trapped in this overbroad rule that we are going to make sure that those people that have a fiduciary and are listed by the VA have a due process right to show that they are nonviolent; that they don't have a propensity to commit a crime with a weapon; that they are not a harm to themselves or to others. And if the VA or an independent judicial officer finds that they are, then yes, list them on the NICS report, but give them that due process right.…”