There is no constitutional impediment to passing life-saving gun laws.

I am grateful to Congressman Mike Thompson and this Committee for prioritizing H.R. 8, the bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019.

Instead, I would urge my colleagues across the aisle to focus on enforcing the laws we already have.

Ninety percent of federal background checks take only a few minutes, but in thousands of cases three days is not enough time to complete a check.

So please tell me what is the harm in studying it?

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Let me just remind this Committee of what I believe was a missed opportunity back in 1990.

I urge you to expand Brady background checks by voting for H.R. 8, legislation requiring background checks for virtually every gun transaction.

What harm is there in trying to figure out the link between guns and the violence and letting CDC and NIH study it?

We are trying to keep them from getting guns in the first place.

The American people are completely fed up with this institution's willful neglect in leaving them to suffer in the face of a clear epidemic.

Finally, Congress should Act to ban bump stocks.

Each of these statistics is another example of this body's shameful failure to protect Americans from gun violence.

The gun death rate has risen by 17 percent, the gun suicide rate by 19 percent, and the gun homicide rate by 14 percent.

Is it still too soon? Is it too soon to talk about taking action to stop gun violence?

We have a gun violence epidemic in this country.

Like most rights, the right secured by the Second amendment is not unlimited.