Assault Weapons Ban of 2022

Floor Speech

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Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, we do have a culture of human violence. Recently, a 16- year-old young man with three felony arrests in the past 4 months violently attacked and attempted to choke a New York subway police officer. He was released without bail. That is what is happening where you have the left in charge of criminal justice systems.

Why do I bring that up? Because that individual punched that police officer more than 20 times in his attempts to basically kill that officer. Personal weapons such as hands, fists, or feet accounted for 600 homicides in 2019, according to official reports. Mr. Speaker, 1,476 murders were committed with knives or cutting instruments, and 364 homicides were committed with rifles.

Do you see the distinction here? But what the Democrats are going for is they want to take away someone's constitutional right instead of enforcing the law for people who are criminally violent. They are going to release those people back into your streets.

The Supreme Court has held the Second Amendment protects arms in common use. But at markup, Chairman Nadler admitted that the purpose of the bill is to ban firearms that are in common use. Think about that. That does violence to the Constitution. They simply want to ban guns, and this is just another step along that path.

At markup, it became very clear that Democrats don't even understand the guns that they are trying to ban, but they don't care because when they say they want to put politics above people, or that we shouldn't, what they really mean is they are going to.

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