On the recordMay 21, 2018
I thank the gentlewoman for those comments. I feel her sense of frustration, I feel her outrage, and I think many Americans--as a matter of fact, the majority of Americans--do when they hear the outcries of the parents who have learned that their children have been gunned down in school; when they see their children on lifesaving equipment in hospitals because they are hanging on to life by a thread; when they see their children duck down under their beds because they hear a car backfire, having flashbacks from the trauma they experienced in school, hearing mass gunfire taking place before their very eyes; when they don't want to go to school because they remember the rivers of blood that they witnessed as children and teachers' lives were being sucked out of them, due to the gun violence that was unleashed in a place that is supposed to be safe for them to learn, to grow, and to mature. Mr. Speaker, we can't hear you. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott), someone who the Congressional Black Caucus looks to for a lot of our legislation when it comes to criminal justice, and when it comes to understanding the role that we can play in advancing progressive legislation.
