Nicole Lewis should be fired for being totally incompetent!  Scalise's remark is 100% correct.  I am a former resident of Illinois and I stopped going to the city of Chicago a decade ago BECAUSE of their out of control gun crime.  When the gun crime problems started and escalated, all of those tight gun control laws were in effect.  The only ones Chicago has loosened are ones the Supreme Court forced them to.
Chicago still has no gun retailers and no gun ranges for the citizens of Chicago to arm themselves for their own protection and to be able to practice their shooting with paper targets.