House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., who survived an attempted assassination by a political radical, pushed back against calls for major gun control regulations in the wake of the Las Vegas shooting, saying that further restrictions wouldn’t make the country safer but would hurt the rights of law-abiding citizens.

“You go to a city like Chicago. Some of the toughest guns laws in the country are in Chicago, yet they have the worst gun violence,” Scalise said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “The Second Amendment really predates the Bill of Rights. Our Founding Fathers believed strongly in gun rights for citizens. Frankly, they thought it was an assumed right.”