Mike Thompson: “I am going to vote against the previous question today so we can bring up amendments that will address the issue of gun…”

“I am going to vote against the previous question today so we can bring up amendments that will address the issue of gun violence prevention in our country. Eighty-five percent of Americans believe that we should pass the no fly, no buy bill. Ninety percent of Americans believe that we should expand and enhance background checks for those folks who are trying to buy guns. And we have a perfect opportunity to do it. There are two bills in the House, both of them bipartisan, that address these two issues. Both of them are bipartisan. Both of them are pro Second Amendment. Both bills help keep guns away from criminals, terrorists, and the dangerously mentally ill. Earlier today, some 300 victims and survivors of gun violence assembled outside. I listened to what they had to say. Later, I met with one of the women, one of the victims, Catherine Bodine from Ohio. She was wounded, and her 10-year-old daughter, Samantha, was killed. The murderer was a felon. He could not pass a background check, could not go to a licensed gun dealer and buy a gun. So instead he went online, and he bought a gun online. He wounded this woman, and he killed her 10-year-old daughter, Samantha. We should do everything we can to prevent those sorts of tragedies from happening, and we have a chance to do it with the two bills that are in this House.…”