The Constitution declares that gun ownership is not a privilege that is just for a select, reserve few.
Now, the universal criminal background check is backed by more than 95 percent of the American people.
We are trying to keep them from getting guns in the first place.
I have yet to hear a single argument that this legislation in H.R. 8 is unconstitutional.
What harm is there in trying to figure out the link between guns and the violence and letting CDC and NIH study it?
Let me just remind this Committee of what I believe was a missed opportunity back in 1990.
The overwhelming majority of American gun owners are hardworking, law-abiding citizens.
We have a responsibility to make sure that we keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.
We owe your whole generation an apology. The adults have failed you.
It is imperative that we do all that we can to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.
The gun death rate has risen by 17 percent, the gun suicide rate by 19 percent, and the gun homicide rate by 14 percent.