Killed 59 people yesterday and sickened over 500 others . Do you think the nation with demand action . If we had an outbreak every day that had over 100,000 people a ,ear killed and injured congress would be in a frenzy. We found two minutes for a moment of silence and we moved on. Gun violence is a Public Health hazard. Bit as important as every other disease or outbreak. Ours is the only developed country in the world that cannot protect our families from death and injury from guns on a massive scale. Of frustration in congress and another School Shooting in my district, i sat down with my constituents to go through, what are the things that we can do that would make a difference . We understood that you cannot completely solved evil people. Theres not a statute thats foolproof. Are built withs efforts to try to make things better. Lets stop dealing with gun violence as a political issue and think about it as the Public Health epidemic that it is. Its already claiming over 12,000 lives in the United States this year. Auto deaths and safety in a resolute fashion. It didnt happen overnight that we made our highways less dangerous. But we stayed at it. With law enforcement, engineering, research. Weve cut the rate of deaths over half. Were starting now to deal with massive addiction and overdoses as a medical condition that requires treatment, not just law enforcement. My report outlined nine areas that we can take action. Congress 26 bills in that deal with these items and we havent been able to deal with them meaningfully. No hearings, nothing on the floor of the house. There are provisions to keep guns away from the most dangerous users. Even members of the in ra support that. We can improve the Mental Health system. We can authorize an increase research into gun safety. Provisionn outrageous in United States law that prevents the center from Disease Control to Research Gun Violence byt was offered authored our late colleague jay dickey that later in life realized was horrific. We can control access to the most asian dangerous most dangerous products. We can empower Health Care Professionals to deal with families to help prevent gun violence and understand what risks their families face, rather than outrageous provisions that seem to limit with Healthcare Professionals with their patients. We can effectively regulate the sale of firearms. There should be no hidden sales when we do not have background checks. This is within our capacity. Can enforce in this enforce existing laws and mitigate the loss of life in shooting by helping provide more resources for First Responders. This is an pieinthesky. Takewill do nothing to away the rights of americans who want to target shooter hunt. Is it will start the slow, steady process towards making our families safer and make sure that america is not the only developed country that families from its gun violence. Mr. Speaker, i rise today weary fromartbroken and bone the gun violence that continues to rack our country. Just this year alone durban 273 Mass Shootings, shootings with or are more picked arms. Every day we read of another child tragically lost. We awoke yesterday to the horrifying news of another mass shooting, this time in las vegas. It is once more now the worst shooting in our nations history. I extend my sincere condolences to all those who lost loved ones and send prayers of recovery to those wounded. Know that the American Public is greeting will you is grieving with you. Words and prayers are not sufficient. We own and more. You must come together to tackle this epidemic with action. Enough is enough. There is no one single solution issue, norviolence are there any easy answers. However, this body is set to roll back some of the common sense protections we arty have. Can provisionse on the sales of silencers. While he considering a bill that makes firearms more deadly and makes it more difficult for Police Respond . Thats not all. Proposal ul a there is also a proposal that is dangerous legislation that would their own concealed carry standards. This of create a dangerous rates the bottom. Race to the bottom. Debating puzzles that would reduce gun violence. We must not allow the difficulty the path ahead from preventing to embrace solutions that move us in the right direction. I presented a bill that will address a glaring loophole that to bypass auyers background check by purchasing guns as kits. These kits allow anyone to purchase a totally untraceable fire alarm. The act simply says these weapons should be regulated like other firearms and require background checks like other firearms. Nine out of 10 americans support background checks. We also face a problem of stolen guns. Last year, more than 18,000 guns were lost or stolen from federal error dealers. Many of these were later used in violent crime. Introduced the secure storage firearms act that sellers tocensed securely store their firearms would not open for business. As quote was described so obviously right its hard to believe its needed unquote. Am dedicated to making our communities safe. From universal background checks. O making gun trafficking crime enough isough enough. We cannot allow this epidemic to continue. Together we have deputies say lives save lives. The story. Ll heard 59 people at a concert were mowed down and more than 500 wounded. I know you for this story to. Last june, 49 cell phones on the floor of the pulse nightclub were ringing and ringing and ringing and were never had third. What about this story . Two years ago, eight students at a professor were mowed down in their classroom. Everyone knows that nearly five years ago, the bodies of 20 Elementary SchoolsSchool Teachers wereix laid down in sandy hook elementary school. The unthinkable is becoming monday. Becomee we as a society so debased . Have we strayed so far from what is right and what is just that we hardly blink at the massacre of innocence in schools and movie theaters and classrooms and concerts and nightclubs . He goes on and on and on. How many lives must be destroyed before Congress Acts . Columbine showed us that 13 was not enough. No. Mall children, the lives lost at virginia tech, not enough. 49 lives and orlando, no. Its not enough. The fact that more americans have died from gun since 1968 then on battlefields in all our wars since the american revolution, is that not enough . Now 59 people have been murdered in las vegas and hundreds more are left struggling with injuries both physical and mental. , and believe me, i have trouble picking up the worst part, daily Mass Shootings had become just ordinary. The massacre in las vegas was the 200 and 73rd mass shooting in the United States this year. Last year, i posted the name and photo of every victim of a mass the wall outside my office. Not enough. Its never enough. About aow i learned 14yearold killed on her porch next to her mother. Killed at ad cookout pushing children out of the way of gunfire. A twoyearold who survived a heart transplant just to be killed by her father with the rest of her family. This has to stop. Moments of silence provide little comfort, frankly no comfort. Its a show here. This show suggest that if you make the headlines, we will give you a moment of silence. But for the 476 other Mass Shootings each year, were not going to give you a moment of silence. We really lacked the courage of conviction . Other industrialized countries have seen no such bloodsoaked streets. Silent, we are not just being cowardly, we are being complicit in these crimes. By takingnor the dead action. The time for the vote. We know the vote is on. Our human instinct is to find patterns and make sense. The time for the vote. We know the vote is on. Whether the shooters are terrorists or the mentally ill, one pattern is the same. Access to Deadly Weapons that allow a lone gunman to lay waste to human life on a massive scale must stop. The attachments that make them into automatic weapons, that you can purchase for me 50 automatic weapons are banned in the United States. The she knows are banned in the United States. Buy a 50 can attachment and make it into a machine gun, how have the band anything . Lets make sure every gun purchase requires background checks, rather than just 60 of gun purchases. Mr. Speaker, it is time to no longer be silent. We awoke yesterday to a grim but familiar ritual. As we look to our fonts, we saw the dozens of people had been slaughtered in las vegas by matt miller the gun. Victims, and their families, the sling nightmare come true. My heart is up to them. To the First Responders and many people who rushed to help in the now what . N the question cant be escaped. Its particularly hard those of us who live in the shadow of sandy hook. Two years ago, were 20 babies were killed. We thought that would be enough to cause this congress to act for sanity, first common sense four common sense, for life. But it wasnt. Neither was orlando. It was san bernardino. , will beher, i fear the orindas massacre in las vegas the horrendous massacre in las vegas. No other tragedy we face, not ,errorists, not hurricanes causes us to say this is not a time to address this problem. Say, how can we stop this . Except on this issue. Orlando. Congress does nothing. Sandy hook. 20 dead children. Congress does nothing. Las vegas. Ist is happening right now that conversations are happening would bes to find that decent interval of time is between the deaths and los and when weas vegas can introduce a bill that will make it easier for people to buy silencers. Own, ourattack on our friend Stevens Police, was enough to make us consider our friend Stevens Police our friend steven scalise, was enough to make us consider change. We want too think take away the guns . No we do not. Those of us who stand for gun safety, we respect the Second Amendment. We have no interest in taking away anybodys guns. But we have interest in lease two things that have the virtue of being supported by the vast majority of americans. Universal background checks. The simple idea that if youre going to exercise or Second Amendment rights, and buy a weapon, we should check to see if youre aiolent, terrorist, if you are likely to do harm with that deadly weapon. Thats a simple idea that has about 90 support in this country and yet it will not be brought to this lore in what is known as the house of representatives. Do we represent or do we not . There are other ideas. There has to be some limit on the firepower and the nature of the Lethal Technology that americans can get axis two like we saw on las vegas. Access to like we saw in las vegas. Many americans would agree there is some line between the weapons that we should have access to as a result of our Second Amendment rights and those weapons that can wreak the kind of havoc that we saw in las vegas. Last year after the shooting at the pulse nightclub, i decided that i would not participate in any more moments of silence. Prayers and said that they are fine but this room can fix this problem and the people in it it. Sed to do we would not bring forth our deas ideas that are constituents support. Let us remember that many things took decades for us to achieve. We have to act, we have no other choice. The gentlemans time has expired. Cspan. In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Companies and is brought today by your cable or satellite provider. The cspan bus is traveling across the country on our 50 cap 50 capitals tour. Annapolis, what is your most important issue . An issue a lot of us in maryland are concerned with is the history and heritage of our state. My concern is, how we have conversations about our past . Here at st. Johns, we read frederick douglass, we read the we readtt decision, about lincoln, and we try to have real conversations with one another about the issues and , butrent points of views the thing i care about most deeply is, how can we as americans have real conversations where everyone is respected but where an understanding can be reached . For. S what im hoping not just fighting, not just are going, not just power struggles. Real communion and conversation. Building real community. I believe a major issue in maryland is incarceration. I believe that when people come out of prison, the support system is very vital to people staying out of prison and keeping recidivism down. People who are formally incarcerated get little. Mployment if they get it, itll keep them in the states say. Im the president of st. Johns college. I think the issue that is most critical for us to address todays the issue of civil discourse. At st. Johns college we offer young people to sit around the and discuss in our seminars the most important issues pertain to what it means to be a human being. We talk about what takes out a flourishing society. ,f we often obtained do that if we haveess the opportunity to do that, and first address one anothers humanity, and we come much closer to find solutions to the problems of we face. Thereurage everybody out to think about that model of civil discourse. Asked us questions together ask tough questions together. Im a junior at st. Johns college. Im a student supervisor at the gallery. My job is to teach people about the art and get people involved in the workshops we offer and the community. I think its important for somebody to understand art because you understand history, unison literature, and you understand the culture of the art that youre looking at. History, youstand can understand yourself and where you want to go. The state, on cspan. President trump met with officials