Zoe Lofgren: “No one law or measure will solve every problem. We know that. I think that we have heard a lot of discussion not only…”

“No one law or measure will solve every problem. We know that. I think that we have heard a lot of discussion not only here today in these chambers but from individuals outside of this body critical of really very modest gun safety measures that if we do not have a 100 percent solution then we should just throw up our hands and do nothing. That is not the way we operate in this country. Because there are some people who drive drunk and we do not effectuate an arrest and prosecution of every single person who has gotten behind the wheel drunk does not mean that we are going to say that it is okay to drive while drunk. Because the 408 children who died in accidental shootings last year in this country might not all have been saved because of a trigger lock is no excuse not to do what we can so that some of those children might have been saved. I am hopeful that we can finally have a meeting of the conference committee on which I serve. When we met on August 5, we gave speeches to each other. I was there. I asked that we stay in that room and that we continue to work on the measure. At that point, my two teenagers were getting ready to start high school. Now my oldest daughter is getting ready to graduate from high school, and we have still done absolutely nothing. We need to earn our paychecks.”