Sheila Jackson Lee: “I thank the distinguished ranking member and certainly the distinguished Member who is managing, my friend from Texas.…”

“I thank the distinguished ranking member and certainly the distinguished Member who is managing, my friend from Texas. Let me be very clear. I support a stabilizing brace for disabled Americans and veterans. Could anybody stand here and disagree with that? They were wounded in combat, and they are fighters for our freedom. It is my honor to have represented the Houston National Cemetery in Texas over a number of years. Let me be very clear on what we are debating here today. Might I say that there are veterans in the ATF, men and women who served in the United States military who have come home to serve again. Their desire is not to violate the Second Amendment, neither is their desire to take innocent Americans in. You can get a brace for those disabled veterans, and it is a legal process. This provision specifically is to deal with when you make it a lethal weapon to be used like an assault weapon to kill people. I don't know why we can't be clear. Let me tell you why it is very clear. It is because we started out with this bill so many days and weeks ago, but in the midst of it, someone used the exact same brace to go into the Covenant School in Nashville and murder three 9-year-olds and three staff members. That is what the ATF is against. Eight children are dying every day and 40,000 Americans are dying throughout the year through gun violence, not your Second Amendment. Mr. Speaker, who would even think that you could tamper with the Second Amendment?…”