"I am honored to be here today and grateful for the spotlight you are shining on America's gun violence crisis."
"The gun industry uses fear to sell guns, and it believes that mass shootings are great for gun sales."
"The gun industry, for its part, has innovated not to make guns or us safer, but to make them more dangerous."
"Yes, we need to talk about mental illness, but what happens after we do all our prayers and best wishes..."
"Our national obsession with guns is killing thousands of kids each year."
"It is the daily occurrence of trauma and heartbreak in a community reeling from a Nation who is unwilling to act."
"How do we talk about saving lives but we arm people to be able to take lives, and we arm them easily, and we arm them from the standpoint of it is my right. What about life?"
"We need to address the incidence of gun violence in this country, not with carceral interventionist solutions, but with a public health approach that is rooted in prevention."
"It is always on my mind, is this unrelenting concern about not only their physical safety, but also the emotional toll."
"Our children want action, but the strategies that I get to hear too often... will call for the hardening of schools."
"We are forgetting about victims and their trauma."