Angie Craig: “I will use some of my time at this moment. At the outset, let me say Senator Mikulski and I are best of friends. We…”

“I will use some of my time at this moment. At the outset, let me say Senator Mikulski and I are best of friends. We appreciate our friendship, and we work closely on a variety of pieces of legislation. There is nothing I would do nor is there anything S. 1805 will do to damage the argument and passion and concern Senator Mikulski has put before us today with her amendment. If you believe in the underlying bill, S. 1805, there is a problem, and the problem is Senator Mikulski carves out a very big exception and guts the bill in the underlying principle. Let me talk about that principle. I ask the Senator to go with me to page 7 of the bill and to look at section 4 of the bill. Let us talk about that in relation to the phenomenal tragedy that hit this city and the families she is discussing. Not only did her friends and neighbors hunker down in fear, but so did we as John Lee Malvo and John Allen Muhammad terrorized the neighborhoods in Maryland and Virginia. Here is the problem. What are the facts? The Senator said I am not going to try the case on the floor, but I am going to point fingers. I am not going to try the case on the floor, but I am going to point fingers. We probably have reasonable cause to point fingers at Bull's Eye in Tacoma, WA. Something went wrong up there. There are over 300 guns missing. Lee Malvo himself said, I stole the Bushmaster I used in the sniper incidents in Virginia and in Maryland. 'I stole the gun.' He said so.…”