John Sarbanes actually said...

"I want to echo the request that we have some kind of hearing that addresses this issue of gun violence as a public health crisis."

"But we really should be sending them laws that put in place commonsense gun safety measures."

"I am talking about a response that says this is a public health crisis and our agency... is going to have to really ramp up the kind of research--public health research--we do into this crisis of gun ..."

"We do have a strategy. We do have a law. We just have failed to implement it. It has really been a political failure, not a scientific failure."