Chuck Schumer: “In all the debates we have had on gun control, the gentleman has always reminded and said: Do not ban the gun, just go…”

“In all the debates we have had on gun control, the gentleman has always reminded and said: Do not ban the gun, just go after the criminal who uses the gun illegally. That is just what the gentlewoman from Connecticut is doing here. She is not banning the device, she is not curbing its technology. She is simply saying, when you use it in a criminal act, you will get an enhanced penalty. That seems to me to be completely consistent with what the gentleman from Missouri has been advocating. I might say ban the device, but I am not on this case. But just going after the criminal with an enhanced penalty seems to me to be something that everybody in this Chamber might be able to accept. I hope we will support the gentlewoman's amendment.”