Zoe Lofgren: “as I have listened to the words here today, I must say that I am more encouraged today than I have been since last…”

“as I have listened to the words here today, I must say that I am more encouraged today than I have been since last August by what has been said. I am hopeful that we will in fact be able to achieve what I think is achievable. I think it is simply wonderful that the gentleman from Illinois and the gentleman from Michigan are going to send a letter over to the chairman of the committee and ask that we meet. I commend both of them for doing that. I was grateful to hear about the discussion that I know has been discussed privately but never I do not believe on the floor before today of how we can close the gun show loophole in a way that works that the gentleman from Illinois described and the gentleman from Michigan has described. I would just like to say that I hope that the very positive language is followed up with very positive action. I know that action is hard to do because there are forces in the country that are opposed to taking action, and it will take us all working together to make sure that this gets done. I agree with the gentleman from Illinois that there are many problems that face America. The overavailability of guns is one of them. But we know that there are people who are emotionally unstable, people suffering from untreated mental illness that go on rampages, children that have been abused or neglected and who do wrong things. All of those problems will continue to exist.…”