On the recordMay 11, 2000
Mr. Speaker, the need for national gun legislation is brought home by the virtual futility that many of us who have succeeded in getting strong gun legislation in our own jurisdictions now see to that effort. Many large cities in the United States, including the District of Columbia, have gun bans. There are those with the audacity, some of them on this floor occasionally to say words to the effect the District of Columbia has a gun ban, so what good are gun control laws? Well, that is a virtual concession to the proposition that we need national gun safety legislation in order to have truly effective local gun safety legislation, and that is all we are asking. That is all we are asking. We are not asking for uniformity, but we do think there should be a minimum standard that any decent civil society should have with respect to the most dangerous weapons in that society, guns. That is what these moms, I take it, are coming to say.
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