Rep. Jim Walsh pushes amendment to refocus gun bill, majority party denies adoption

a good member from the 19th representative Walsh thank you madam speaker one of the issues with the underlying policy and something we've seen in previous proposals like it is that it restricts and I would even say punishes law-abiding citizens for exercising their constitutional rights what this amendment would do is it would refocus the underlying policy on criminals it would say that if an individual with a proven criminal background a bad actor violates the restrictions described in the underlying policy then that individual would be appropriately punished for breaking the law again Madam speaker this amendment remedies an ongoing issue that we have in our gun control policies in this state which is that we target law abiding citizens instead of criminals in a small way the amendment says let's focus our public policy on punishing criminals they're the ones whose rights should be restricted because they victimized other people please vote Yes on the amendment Madam speaker