He is elevating the Second Amendment above all of the other values.
This hearing of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights will come to order.
The Department strongly supports a stand-alone straw purchasing statute.
We also need to protect your right to life, to peace, to freedom from violence from those same firearms.
Thank you for joining us at this Committee hearing, as well as my other colleagues who will be here.
I have joined with Chairman Leahy in cosponsoring legislation relating to straw purchasers.
This is not some abstract, legal debate. Guns have forever changed the lives of so many people.
Straw purchasing is a dangerous act that supplies many criminals in the city of Chicago and across the United States.
democratic government must be preferred to a system in which each conscience is a law unto itself
The Second Amendment right is 'not unlimited,' and that like other rights, it is subject to reasonable regulation.
We cannot deal with this in isolation community by community.