Thank you so much for being here today. Im jenny beth martin, the honorary chairman of the Tea Party Patriots action. We are doing this press Conference Today to talk about the Second Amendment and the importance of the Second Amendment. I need to find my statement which i misplaced. Our speakers today are members of congress, survive yoffers Mass Shootings or family members whose loved ones were murdered in Mass Shootings. Everyone up here today wants to defend our Second Amendment right and we have solutions that can actually help save lives without infringing on the rights of innocent americans. Im not standing here today just as a conservative activist. Im defending my own godgiven rights to protect myself and my family. Im standing here today as the mother of teenagers. Their twins whose school nearly became another statistic and another tragedy. Two students at their school had detailed plans to mass murder eir peers and due to the diligent work of sheriff reynolds and others in
Ms. Martin thank you so much for being here today. Im jenny beth martin, the honorary chairman of the Tea Party Patriots action group. We are doing this press Conference Today to talk about the Second Amendment and the importance of the Second Amendment. I need to find my statement which i misplaced. Our speakers today are members of congress, survivors of Mass Shootings or family members whose loved ones were murdered in Mass Shootings. Everyone up here today wants to defend our Second Amendment right and we have solutions that can actually help save lives without infringing on the rights of innocent americans. Im not standing here today just as a conservative activist. Im defending my own godgiven rights to protect myself and my family. Im standing here today as the mother of teenagers. Their twins whose school nearly became another statistic and another tragedy. Two students at their school had detailed plans to mass murder their peers, and due to the diligent work of sheriff reynol
Honorary chairman of the Tea Party Patriots action group. We are doing this press Conference Today to talk about the Second Amendment and the importance of the Second Amendment. Our speakers today are members of congress, survivors of Mass Shootings or family members whose loved ones were murdered in Mass Shootings. Everyone up here today wants to defend our Second Amendment right and we have solutions that can actually help save lives without infringing on the rights of innocent americans. Im defending my own godgiven rights to protect myself and my family. Im standing here today as the mother of teenagers. Their twins whose school nearly became another statistic and another tragedy. Two students at their school had detailed plans to mass murder their peers, and due to the diligent work of sheriff reynolds and others in my county, and sheriff reynolds is here today, these two people who are trying to do this to my Childrens School were stopped before they could hurt or kill anyone. Th
[indistinct conversations] [chatter] as i said, we would like to move on to the next bill. That people leave and come up these do so quietly. You. Eople coming in, thank pursuant to notice by h. R. 12 0 6, the protection order act of 2019. The clerk will report the bill. 1236 to support state, tribal and local efforts to remove access of firearms from individuals who are in danger to themselves and others pursuant to court orders for this purpose. Without objection. I will begin by recognizing myself for an opening statement. Rep. Nadler last month the country was rocked by news of Mass Shootings on two successive days in el paso, texas, where 22 people were killed and 26 wounded, and in dayton ohio nine people were killed and 27 others injured. A few weeks later, a gunman in odessa, texas took other peoples lives. 53 people were killed in total in Mass Shootings in august alone. Individual to commemorate the victims in dayton, the governor speech was drawn out by calls to do something
Many levels and i want to take us back to the underlying bill and extreme Risk Protection order act. Which would incentivize states and localities to implement extreme risk laws, which is simply common sense. And i wanted to bring forward our experience in my home state of washington, which became the fourth state in the nation to pass an extreme risk law in 2016. Since we have implemented that law in Washington State, and weve supported it with county resources to help enforce the law by also recovering firearms from people ordered to surrender them by a judge, a number of people at risk of suicide have been referred. According to kimberly wyatt, who runs the king county program, she has, quote, seen folks who were in the midst of the Behavioral Health crisis come into court and thank Law Enforcement for saving their lives. Late last year Law Enforcement in Washington State prevented a possible mass shooting after someone flagged a potential threat. And that was a man who posted image