When a professor does not answer my question, he gets a poor rating from me at the end of the term, but I am sure that that is not your intent.
These are the facts. The lawyers who appeared before us said that when an offence is committed with a firearm, the judges or justices of the peace do not release the perpetrator. That is what you must remember. Did the government draft a bill that is based on shaky data? Whether you are talking about someone who has committed an assault with a firearm or with a knife, that has nothing to do with the substance of the bill. On what evidence or for what objective do you support the bill? What you have told us has nothing to do with the substance of the bill.