Brenda Lawrence: “This has to be a partnership.”

My colleague on the other side used a term that I hear frequently when we start talking about gun violence in America, and he said, 'my God-given right.'

We at a time, we had the Wild, Wild West where every American walked around with a gun.

We have never passed comprehensive gun legislation in this country, and we need to do it now.

To own a gun in America is a constitutional right, but just like any other situation that arises in America, when we get to the point of it being a pandemic, an epidemic, where the death of children in America, the No. 1 cause is a gun, my…