Be bold, be courageous. Americans are counting on you.

Yes. Yes.

Background checks.

It doesn't work. It doesn't work.

Yes. Not really.

I think we can get this done. There is momentum. The American people want this and they want this now.

It's to make sure that criminals don't have the access to a hand gun by going to a gun show or over the internet. It's the most common sense thing we can do to reduce the guns in the hands of criminals and the mentally ill, the dangerously…

Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying, too many children. We must do something. It will be hard. But the time is now. You must act. Be bold. Be courageous. Americans are counting on you.

The breadth and complexity of gun violence is great, but it is not an excuse for inaction.

We are not here as victims. We are speaking to you today as Americans.

We are simply two reasonable Americans who have said, 'Enough.'