Graham Expresses Opposition to Gun Control

I think Mister chairman of I think I'm speaking for a lot of people when they say we're heartbroken

when a family member is taken through an act of gun violence that would be a child or anyone else but particularly children %HESITATION

that's just a heartbreaking %HESITATION episode in society and I think most people would would

appreciate the fact that there thousands if not millions of Americans who say their faith home invasions are by

those are the two bookends and let and you mentioned %HESITATION captain Kelly and I'm very much appreciate you being here in your service the country about you

and your wife a reasonable Americans I I don't doubt that one bit I'm I'm I'm sure you are the question is Emory's

blue American if I oppose this bill and my reasonable American %HESITATION believing that the constitution says guns

to own a gun into Tacna government that's not what I think a legitimate purposes let's talk about a

a real world incident that happened and Loganville Georgia on January the fourth two thousand and

thirteen my basic premise is that one bullet in the hand of a mentally unstable person or

a convicted felon is one too many six bullets in the hands of a mother protecting her twin nine year olds may not be enough so

I've got a chart here the very top is a thirty eight revolver now on the ride is a nine millimeter pistol

%HESITATION that holds fifteen rounds does everybody on the panel agreed that a convicted felon should not have either one of those guns does

got on the phone to the police and she was talking to her husband in real time the intruder broke into the home had a crowbar and

he found them in the closet and there were confronted confronted face to face according to media reports her husband said shoot shoot

she handed the gun six up six shot revolver the guy was hit five of the six times he

was able still to get up and drive away my question is put your family member in that situation what

I would be a reasonable American dewalt my family to have the fifteen round magazine in

a semi automatic weapon to make sure if there's two intruders she don't run out of bullets am

I an unreasonable person for saying that in that situation the fifteen round magazine make

sense well I'll say I don't believe I am so I can give you an example of where a fifteen round magazine could

make the difference between compel of of protecting the family if there's more than one attacker now

back to your point captain killing in the situation you described I don't that person to have one bullet or

one done and the point of regulating magazines is to interrupt the shooter that's the point of all this and

I guess what I'm saying is that we live in a world where their four million high capacity of magazines out there are more I