Lincoln Diaz-Balart: “this bill reminds me of the anecdote, the man gets home, finds his wife being unfaithful on the sofa, mobilizes to sell…”

“this bill reminds me of the anecdote, the man gets home, finds his wife being unfaithful on the sofa, mobilizes to sell the sofa and prohibit all sofas. The issue, Mr. Speaker, is not to sell or prohibit the sofa where 3 percent of the matter occurs or to prohibit the beds where 97 percent of the matter may occur. The issue is the need to take strong and nonhypocritical measures to prevent the action from occurring, not this fatally flawed legislation which is in effect hypocritical. Mr. Speaker, let me show two photographs here. One of these weapons is prohibited by this bill; the other one is not. The crucial issue here is that the weapon that is prohibited by this bill is made in the United States of America. The other one is a Chinese Communist produced, with slave labor, weapon. This very lethal weapon produced in Communist China, the SKS, will continue to be available, and few measures would help the Communist Chinese weapons manufacturing business that, as I said, utilizes slave labor and takes advantage of most-favored-nation status with the United States more than this hypocritical legislation. Mr. Speaker, we need to call this legislation what it really is: The Communist Chinese Slave Labor Gun Manufacturing Relief Act. Mr. Speaker, this is not serious crime fighting legislation. There are serious business undercurrents in this legislation; serious business undercurrents.”