Bob Wise: “there is too much crime and too much violence in these crimes. That is why I support doing away with the gun ban because…”

“there is too much crime and too much violence in these crimes. That is why I support doing away with the gun ban because it is false advertising. It does not deal with these problems. This ban, the existing ban, deals with how a firearm looks. Does it have a bayonet mount or a flash suppressor? Then it is banned. But a gun, a firearm that shoots the same bullet at the same velocity with the same impact but looks different, that can be legal. Mr. Speaker, the FBI and the Department of Justice statistics themselves show that one has a greater chance of being murdered tonight with a steak knife or by fish or feet than by one of these types of firearms. My experience is that criminals who want to commit a crime with a gun are going to get a gun, it does not matter what it is. What we can do is what is in this bill, and that is make sure that they do the time. Let us make sure that there is a stiff mandatory sentence so that they are removed from society. Fighting crime requires more than simple feel-good-but-accomplish-little legislation.”