On the recordJune 24, 2022
It is estimated that legal guns save 162,000 lives annually and prevent 2.5 million crimes a year, or 6,849 crimes every day. By their own admission, criminals fear armed citizens more than they fear the police. Up to 90 percent of criminals who commit crimes with a gun do not acquire that firearm legally. We have serious problems in this country involving family, drugs, and mental health. Those issues have been going in the wrong direction for decades. Instead of addressing these issues head-on, the bill will instead jeopardize the right to bear arms for millions of law-abiding citizens. Decades of Supreme Court precedent prevent the government from exercising prior restraint on our First Amendment rights to free speech. We should not treat the Second Amendment differently. The Court just spoke forcefully in favor of this right. This body should do the same. I urge a ``no'' vote.
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