We need a national solution to this national problem.
Gun violence is an epidemic that kills nearly 100 Americans each and every day and forever changes the lives of 250 others.
We can't be an oasis of common sense surrounded by States beholden to the gun lobby.
until we pass some national laws to deal with this, there are going to be those issues.
It's been very difficult to get any legislation passed about gun violence.
It's because of the lack of national trafficking laws, straw purchasing, we can't even get a background law passed.
The majority of our crime guns come from Indiana and Wisconsin.
Before I ask my questions, I have to--my mic's on. Before I ask my questions, I just have to make a comment about where I represent, Chicago...
the majority of our crime guns come from Indiana and Wisconsin.
we do need to invest more, you know, in various communities, but the other reason is because we don't have the laws that we need.
Like you, I am shocked by our Nation's growing maternal mortality crisis.