The gun industry, for its part, has innovated not to make guns or us safer, but to make them more dangerous.

The gun industry uses fear to sell guns, and it believes that mass shootings are great for gun sales.

I appreciate the opportunity for the National Motorists Association... to add the following commentary to the record of the subject hearing.

Can I inquire as to time remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has 7\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Thank you, Chair Norton, and thank you to our witnesses for being here today.

It is always on my mind, is this unrelenting concern about not only their physical safety, but also the emotional toll.

We need to address the incidence of gun violence in this country, not with carceral interventionist solutions, but with a public health approach that is rooted in prevention.

Our national obsession with guns is killing thousands of kids each year.

We need to also talk about how the $9 billion civilian firearms industry is shielded from the scrutiny and accountability that has led other industries to better and safer practices.

Race, as we have come to understand it, is a fiction, but racism, as we have come to live it, is a fact.

These brave men and women not only served our country in one of the highest regards, but also came home and continued to support their communities through entrepreneurship and employing fellow veterans.

I have sat with parents who lost their children to gun violence.

We are forgetting about victims and their trauma.

Thank you, Madam Chair, for calling today's hearing.

And the time for the other side? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Oregon has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.

This has to stop. Enough is enough.

Your thoughts and prayers are not enough. We need you to stand with us in the days, weeks, months, and years to come.

Thank you, Madam Chair.