Jerry Nadler

The greatest challenge we have as a Nation is making sure to maintain the integrity of our election system.

A statement for the record from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.

I thank the chair of the subcommittee, Karen Bass, for holding this critical hearing about community-driven strategies to reduce gun violence in our cities across the Nation.

We must analyze gun violence in America the same way we would analyze a disease, as it is, in fact, a public health issue, as well as one of public safety.

This discussion is a critical component of this committee's comprehensive approach to addressing our national epidemic of gun violence.

The public's right of access is fundamental, and it is not adequately protected when our courts fall far behind modern standards of media access.

I think we need to revisit how we are spending our money, and we are wasting huge amounts of the taxpayers' money locking people up who pose no threat.

And I think that I would just say that is something that ought to be revisited because to have miscarriages or stillbirths is just not the right thing.

The propaganda about the connection between immigrants and crime is just that, propaganda, and that there is no evidence or considerable evidence to the contrary that immigrants, whether legal or otherwise, commit crimes at a lower rate…

I want to make a couple comments before I start the questions.

There is a terrible slander abetted by the President... that illegal aliens... are a danger to the United States.

The Trump Administration's immigration policies have been a failure at a policy level and, more important, as a matter of basic human decency.

The time of the gentleman has expired.

God forbid, if you lived in an apartment complex or a community with attached homes, how the bullets will go through the walls and travel apartment after apartment after apartment, if you have the wrong one.

The question becomes, why such large-capacity magazines on these assault weapons and assault rifles, if we are talking about hunting?

So, in the sense of patrolling--and I guess I am trying to make a balance in between that need for a weapon of mass destruction and the need for self-defense.

Let's just, for purpose of this hearing, call them weapons of mass destruction, because there are three officers in Baton Rouge whose families will never see them again.

If we just take my district, since I have been in Congress, I have lost five officers who were overpowered by perpetrators because they were better-armed than my police officers.

Assault weapons have become the favorite weapon for many mass murderers.

During the 1994 ban, people got around the ban by various means.

We need a nationwide law that comprehensively addresses this danger to our communities, and we have no time to waste.

NOBLE supported the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act or Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) of 1994 and the Federal Assault Weapons Ban Reauthorization Act of 2004.

It is our organization's opinion that violence--particularly gun violence is a public health issue.

NOBLE is very concerned about the level of gun violence in the United States, and specifically the correlation between violence and the proliferation of assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.

The crisis of gun violence in our country necessitates a sustained, coordinated, and collaborative effort involving citizens, elected officials, law enforcement, and the entire criminal justice system.