Mike Collins: “Look, I have great sympathy for what the gentleman from South Carolina just spoke of. But, also, I have even greater…”

“Look, I have great sympathy for what the gentleman from South Carolina just spoke of. But, also, I have even greater sympathy for the fact it could have been avoided and had nothing, frankly, to do at the end when the FBI under Mr. Comey actually admitted that there were mistakes made. The FBI could have stopped that instead of letting it happen. They saw problems. They let it go. It could have stopped. This was already in law, Madam Chair. It could have stopped. Yes, what I laid out for you is not just simply 20 business days, when you look at the fact that, coupled with other restrictions, it can do what we said. I have great sympathy and grief for every loss of life, no matter where it comes from. But to simply say that this would have fixed it, when the FBI and others knew they could have fixed it at that moment and could have went later and got the guns, because there was a delay even in the horrific act that happened--again, we are simply talking about what is on the paper. Madam Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. McClintock). Mr. McCLINTOCK. Madam Chairman, we all deplore and mourn the monstrous, despicable, and evil massacre in Charleston. But that terrible crime was committed 67 days after the perpetrator applied to purchase the firearm. As Mr. Collins said, this was preventable if, under current law, it was a failure of the FBI and not of the law.…”