Rep. Steve Scalise–who survived a brutal shooting attack at a Congressional baseball practice in 2017–says Democrats wouldn’t allow him to testify against gun control at a House Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday.
In an op-ed for Fox News, Scalise wrote, “While liberals may try to silence conservative voices, I will not be silenced. The American people deserve to hear all perspectives.”
The Congressman, instead, provided his full testimony to Fox, where he says the new gun control measures considered by Democrats would not have prevented his shooting.
The new gun control restrictions currently being considered by the Democratic majority in H.R. 8 would not have prevented my shooting.
In fact, these new gun control measures being proposed in H.R. 8 would not have prevented any number of recent mass violence events. Several perpetrators of recent multi-victim shootings also purchased their guns legally. In some instances, the background check system failed, and lack of intervention from law enforcement failed to intercept potential threats.
I want to stress that the man who shot me was issued a permit to purchase firearms by the state of Illinois, and had acquired them legally. At Virginia Tech, Charleston, and Sutherland Springs failures in the background check system allowed individuals to illegally obtain the firearms they used to commit their crimes. The alleged loopholes that H.R. 8 claims to fix would not have prevented these tragedies either.
Instead, whether intentionally or not, the gun control proposals in H.R. 8 could turn law-abiding citizens into criminals while also failing to achieve the stated purpose of reducing gun violence.
For his full testimony, click HERE.
